Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. J. Johnson

I like to have a strong powerful back, but I like to use a backup who is a scat guy, who can present a little change-up.

I really thought we were going to go into halftime with a shot at winning, but we gave the ball away a couple of times and let their backup quarterback throw two long passes,

Rebecca Ferguson

I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer was making me selfish - I was a mother with two children, and I needed a backup plan.

His kneecap is not tracking right. There is a 30 percent chance he will need surgery. If he can go, he will. We have a backup and a couple other guys, but without him it will be difficult.

Lee Trevino

But I can understand only three Australians and eight Japanese in the field. The Japanese buy more in the pro shop. They just backup a truck there and take everything. They're not dummies up at Augusta. They said, 'Invite more Japanese, they'll buy a lot of stuff. The Aussies, nah, they won't buy anything. The beer isn't strong enough for them.

Lance Armstrong

But this thing stinks. It's not good for me. And the unfortunate thing is that you potentially dealt with something that you have to face for the rest of your life. And like I said, the protocol wasn't followed and there is no backup sample to confirm what they say is a positive test.

Mike Sherman

They're the catalyst to the defense because they're so active, so disruptive. There aren't a whole lot of holes there. They've certainly drafted well and had good guys in backup roles. That's the biggest difference between this year and a couple years ago when they played with the same four guys.

Steve Goodman

You can take a single point in time backup of any data and operating system you want.

Dan Smith

The heart of the problem was a backup system did not kick in as it was supposed to do. We are investigating both things. One, why did we have the original issue, and then why did the backup system not work in this case?

You want to get that backup a little flustered. I'd say he probably got rattled.

You want to get that backup a little flustered, ... I'd say he probably got rattled.

Dennis has been the starter the entire time, and he is the starter. We have just tended to play our backup more than other people are maybe comfortable with doing. I don't know that that's going to change.

As far as we know, there is no other university that is providing as extensive a backup program as this one is.

Rick Brunson

As a player you like to have a defined role and I am going in there knowing I'll be a backup and I don't have to worry about competing for a starting job or a job, period.

People should be considering a backup plan for watching the Super Bowl.

Joe Nemechek

Once we get the primary engine in the backup (car), we should be fast. I am not really sure why the (primary) car did what it did. I was down low and the car was sticking, and then all of a sudden it was headed to the wall.

The more mobility we have with content, the more it will drive backup storage. Backup storage will become a big deal for us.

Companies should make sure that their patch procedures extend to all applications, including security and backup programs.

A backup sensor is a valuable tool, since people's depth perception begins to suffer with age.

Joe Maddon

It's not how we've written it up in spring training, but the show must go on. The other people, the backup people, have to step up and get it done, and they will. It's just a difficult moment right now. That's all, but nobody's quitting.

You don't want to be a deadbeat back there. But any backup catcher is a deadbeat.

There was no pressure. That's part of being a backup goalie.

You're looking at a data center that runs 2 percent of the Internet, ... That's quite a task to back it up. We have backup tapes, but they're all onsite here in New Orleans. We're still in the process of migrating to a new data center.

This is a pretty powerful tool. Backup software does not keep historical information like this and other tape vendors do not have the capacity to keep this information for long periods of time.

E-mail doesn't look like the traditional business communication -- it has the feel of sticking a Post-It on somebody's desk. E-mail can be sent without a lot of reflection. Most employees don't really think of the fact that when you send an e-mail there will be a copy on your computer, the network backup tape, etc. It's frequently harder to get rid of an e-mail than a written document.

Communications were one of the first things to go. What was discovered is that if you have a prolonged power outage that goes on for several hours, your infrastructure starts to degrade. Power backup only lasts so long.

Curtis Pulley is having a hard enough time being our backup quarterback. He needs all the reps he can get as a quarterback. If we take him out wide, those are reps he's missing at quarterback. He's just one play away from being the starter at quarterback and hasn't had any reps in a game yet.

To be in a backup role, where I'm not sure if or when I am going to play, I have never done that. I am not sure that would work for me.

The scale of the data in the remote office is enormous and the solutions for doing it are terrible; no one is happy with the way remote office backup is done.

The station was operating on a backup transmitter that they don't normally use, and that was creating the problem. They were very cooperative, installing the necessary filters.

We lost all of our power. We're on backup power. Our guys aren't trading.

The SPUI design is much safer, because of longer exit ramps with increased storage that eliminate the backup on the freeway. And when you exit I-94 to Telegraph, with the SPUI design, the decision of which direction you want is made on the ramp, at a slower speed. Before, that decision was made on mainline I-94 itself.

The take (of 'Hey Joe') that we're listening to on the box set has an earlier version of the backup singers singing a little out of key and not quite what they wanted,