Famous Quotes & Sayings

She led mostly by example. When we needed a big play, she came up with it. She's capable of scoring 30 points in a night, but she averages about 11 points because she does such a good job of getting all of her teammates involved.

Douglas Coupland

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

Xavier's been kind of lucky as far as injuries (over the years). I guess it's the law of averages catching up to them.

The decline was sharper than expected, but the reading was still respectable and in line with the averages that were in place right before the hurricane hit in late August.

John Neal

When a team averages 59 points a game, and we give up 91, it's unacceptable. We've got to stop them. We had a lot riding on this game.

Vin Scully

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

But we're looking at averages and we need to know that it won't impact any of our students.

Futures have a little stronger tone to them. You look at the averages and they look like they are approaching some support levels ... And don't throw out the fact that this is traditionally a good time for the markets.

Mack Strong

I don't know where that comes from. You tell me. The guy carries the ball 25 times a game and averages 100 yards a game. I don't think that's soft. Maybe because he does it with a smile.

God really has cursed the sports fans of Chicago. It defies the law of averages when you think about it: 1908 and 1917. God didn't want it to happen. But if the White Sox ever win again, they'll probably set off a hydrogen bomb.

I thought defensively we did a really good job on a team that averages 83 points per game. I was very pleased with our execution at both ends of the court.

We're not worried at all. Guys are going to get there. They're going to be fine. Once league play starts, you'll see those averages start going up.

Historical records and the law of averages indicate the probability of seeing two consecutive years like 2004 and 2005 is very low.

He's a three-sport performer. He plays for me, then averages like 20 points in basketball and was a state-qualifier in the hurdles for the track team. He's impressive.

He's going through that natural period where people want to nitpick the very few negatives he may have instead of extolling all his positives, ... And in a little over 31 minutes a game he averages 18 and 8. He comes to work every day. He's totally selfless. Yet some want to badger the guy about whatever perceived shortcomings he has. I find that unfortunate because if they spent half the time looking at all his positives it would be a much better story.

Richard McCabe

While the recent moves of the market averages may be discouraging, we would not lose hope.

Every time out, (Anderson) had to deal with some special defense directed right at him. His averages come even though he's heavily guarded.

Wes averages 20 (points) and 10 (rebounds) and tonight he only played 11 minutes and had four points.

Neil Patrick Harris

There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.

Our guards did a wonderful job defensively. We knew if we could hold them under the averages we would be in good shape and that is what we did.

Over the past couple of weeks, the move higher in the stock market has been supported by a few big-cap stocks. This is a repeat of the 'Nifty Fifty' in the '70s. While the averages have hit new highs, the bulk of the stocks is moving lower.

I think stock selection is going to be key. It's just like last year, where if you picked a stock at random, you probably lost money even though the averages were up. And stock selection's going to be key again. You have to pick stocks that are going to have earnings that exceed the consensus. It sounds very simple but it's not the easiest thing in the world to do.

I think those averages can be deceiving. Some of our principals are young.

Aaron Hill

Troy Lemay, who is the heart and soul of our team, did an outstanding job of holding Rosso - who averages in the high 20s to only eight points.

We've had games where we've strung together hits and scored bunches of runs, but I guess the law of averages caught up with us tonight.

We haven't beaten them in a long time. It felt good to beat them. The law of averages finally caught up. I was glad to get the win, glad for my team.

Chris Quinn

Those are the four guys we're counting on to score for us. We're returning four guys with averages in the 70s, and that's key in golf. Definitely, we're going to be counting on those four guys to score for us -- night in and night out.

We could see prices ease from record highs, but it's unlikely we'll see them return to historical averages we're used to.

As a team, most of our guys shot around their averages for the season. Ryan Robley did shoot a couple of strokes below with his best back-to-back nines of the season.

John Shimkus

Our domestic demand for crude oil averages 21 million barrels a day. We refine only 17 million barrels a day. That means we import gasoline.

Our English for Speakers of Other Languages wait list averages about 400 and we update it once a month. In our pre-GED program, we get 80-100 applications per month throughout the year. People can be on the wait list for too long. We don't have enough to meet the demand.

Five years of having equity market growth of 25 percent a year seems to be a thing of the past. The law of long-term averages is reasserting itself.

Leslie Jones

Our seniors are the ones that lead this team. Gillespie (.600) has one of the top batting averages on the team and Bird leads by example on the field.