Famous Quotes & Sayings

Being the head recruiter, he knows the battles that we're up against. I'm just grateful that he's staying with it. He's got some other things in mind because he knows when we bring (recruits) here, until we get a new building, we have to spruce this up.

Blake's outing was slightly uncharacteristic, but he was able to battle through it and put us in a position to win.

Blake did what we needed him to do for us tonight. My nerves were a little shabby at the beginning of the game, but it's good to know that we have a guy that will go out and battle for us. He's going to give us a chance to win every time he takes the mound.

Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October.

Everybody understands that this (withdrawal) is the prelude to the big battle

Everybody would be better off if we could find a way to work together instead of battle in the courts. It's a lose-lose situation really to even go through the battle.

Every single game was a big game for us. And we didn't have an easy one. Every game was a battle for us.

Every game's a battle in the (College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) and all those games prepared us. I've got to give all the credit in the world to those other teams. We're playing for them, too.

James Augustine

Every game is going to be a battle and you have to play 100 percent every time. I think the young guys are starting to realize that.

Every month this battle wages, more people are getting used to getting video in other ways. That's the real enemy of this indecision.

The most important thing for us is to realize that last season is over and this one is completely different. And that if we don't run or battle until the end we won't win anything,

David O. McKay

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

Jonathan Ogden

Strength is important. But the No. 1 thing is knowing your opponent. If you know your opponent and what they like to do, and you try to take that away from them, force them to another move, then that's half the battle right there.

Keith Richard

Southern Illinois is in the same boat a little bit. When you play defensive battles such as this, every point is at a premium, the game could go either way. I'm not so much happy that we won here, but that we won.

So this has been a battle of ideas, ... This has been a battle of institutions. We recognize that there are certain fundamental things that you have to do collectively through government. But it is through the free market that the ingenuity of individual creators and enterprises flourishes.

Anson Carter

Special teams was huge for us. We worked on the power play a little bit this morning because we realized that was going to be a big focal point in the game, and the special teams battle ended up being what tipped the scales for us tonight.

Once we got the conference to a point where we wrapped it up, that's when we started thinking about the state tournament series. Whether these guys could make it or not? We're not an overpowering team, but we will battle you. I thought we could play with anybody, but we didn't really blow too many people out.

During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going.

Defensive battles get real physical. You can't get going offensively when you're concentrating on defense, but these defensive battles can get fun too.

The third quarter was some kind of blitz. I thought we would be able to pull away from them and then, boom, the game turns on a dime. We knew we would be in for a battle the rest of the way, and sometimes you grind it out and make it happen.

The thing that's frustrating to me is sometimes I feel like there's going to be days when I have to battle and today wasn't one of those days.

The thing I'm really looking for is that perfect night, when you're out there and it's like a window opens onto the world. And you get a whole brigade marching down in one glorious moment. The battle unfolds in front of you, and you get it all on camera history in motion.

I've never been in a position like this. I'm disappointed. The championship is a long shot for me now. I'll watch these two guys (Reed and Stewart) battle it out for the championship and maybe it will be a bittersweet victory for them if I keep on winning.

James Stewart

I wanted that race to go down to the final lap. It was such a good battle that it's a shame that it ended the way it did. I saw a lapped rider down in the turn and just lost concentration for a split second. That corner was slick and I washed out my front wheel and I was on the ground before I knew it. It's a tough series and things like that are going to happen. Fortunately I didn't lose too much ground in the points and I'll go to San Francisco hoping to come back strong.

I wanted to come up with something for Indy because this is the biggest race of the year and we've just been working, working, working and now we're peaking at the right time. We've got a heck of a points battle going and you've got Indy and I'm not sure which one is more important.

Texas has always had committee chairs -- strong and powerful committee chairs -- and to go to a position where you have none or very few, could well mean in the battle for earmarks, Texas has a harder fight at it.

Teams travel. In the end, it all comes down to how you play on the court. I don't think we can say anything about indoors or outdoors, traveling or not traveling. In the end, one team loses to another, and it's a battle on the court more than anything. The biggest thing for us right now is to put this behind us and look to future matches in a very positive way.

Telcos and network service providers, ASPs and ISPs, have all been growing as important players in the distribution of software functionality. With Windows 2000, Microsoft clearly thinks it has a much better horse to ride into battle to get these folks as customers. They will emphasize the new ASP channel as one they are especially targeting in that regard. They need a platform that actually runs 24 hours a day, and on bigger hardware configurations.

Troy Glaus

Teddy pitched great. He started off a little but slow, but he found his comfort zone and pitched 7 2/3 good strong innings for us, kept us in there, gave us a chance to battle back.

(Tennessee) is a well-coached and very disciplined team. It will be a tough battle for us.

Tennessee is a great team. They are having a special season. The key is it will be a battle of possessions. We have to make sure we don't turn it over too much and that we rebound. We have to go there like we're on a mission.

Simon Gagne

Sometimes the energy drops after that. A lot of teams are tired now, a lot of games in a short period of time, and we just need to battle and fight through it.

Randy Newman

I've opted to work in the Broadway field, as opposed to breaking my heart trying to score films, which is such a damnably difficult thing to do. I guess it's just the dragon I prefer to slay, the one that gives me the most satisfaction to do battle with.