Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're still learning how to win. If there's one thing I've learned to do the last two years, it's to block stuff out.

Joe Thornton

We're not going to win too many games if we let them have four power-play goals. We've got to do a better job of blocking shots.

We've got a sign that we want to put up. And, we're also going to be looking for downed trees that block the trail.

Craig Smith

We've watched three of their games on film. They play in a very good league and finished second. Their 6-foot-9 kid (Ronald Wright) leads the country in blocked shots. They have great size and they're an excellent shooting team.

What they've done here is incredible. They kept the Frank Lloyd Wright facade. And they kept a great number of guest rooms the same. They redid everything, of course, but when they built hotels in 1956 they built big guest rooms. They kept the concrete block and just put in the new retro stuff. Even when I was here the historical society was constantly visiting, wanting to know what we were doing and wanting to make sure we kept the place intact.

We bring leadership and we bring experience. We all have been through a lot. We've all been around the block a little bit, and I think that's important to have on a team.

We blocked the written procedure in order to seek further clarity on the decision.

Anita Sarkeesian

There are people I've blocked for a long time who will still respond to every single person that replies positively to me on Twitter. I have quite a few cyber-stalkers like that.

Matt Stajan

We seem to be creating a lot of odd-man rushes. We're killing a penalty, but we seem to be jumping into the play and doing things like blocking shots to create a 2-on-1. We seem to be able to score and we're finishing those chances and I can't really explain why.

Mitch Mitchell

We've been back on schedule this week, ... First, we have to get focused on playing again. We have to block them better up front than last year.

We need to get out of the blocks with our offensive game a little better. We?re not scoring quickly enough.

John Wilson

The government should step in and block this sale.

The defense played great. Unfortunately, we didn't quite get the blocking we expected from the offense and that hurt us. But we're getting better and, hopefully, the wins will come.

Bill Callahan

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Transistor budgets are exploding when you get to 65 and 45 nanometers, and the number of transistors is massive. Every chip is going to have significant blocks of technology, so the interconnects between those blocks would be an interesting place for us to look at.

Casey Hampton

That might be a good strategy for a video game. But you don't question him. He's a great coach. From the standpoint of me being me, I'd feel we would stop them and block the field goal.

Richard Williams

That's as good a defense as we've seen on film all season and thought we'd have problems with them, but we were one block away a few times in the first half from tying the game up.

Exits on roads were blocked off for a hundred miles, you had to keep going and couldn't look back.

Every two weeks, our music usage is doubling, ... At some point in time, this is going to present a big-enough problem that we will block all audio-type sites.

The last 3 or 4 minutes we played good D, got a couple of steals and a couple of blocks that gave us breathing room.

The key to the game for us will be blocking their blitzes. We're going to have to step it up on defense. Hopefully, we can get everything together. We need a confidence builder. Just going out and winning a game is what we need. You want to keep them positive. This week, hopefully, is the pay off for all their hard work.

The key to guarding Morris isn't trying to block his shot, it's trying to stay in front of him.

The intention is not to set up a right-wing government. The intention is to set up an anti-poverty blocking coalition so that the social issues will remain on the agenda.

The intensity and effort was a lot better than last week at Westville. We blocked pretty well. Our offensive line did a super job and it was just a great overall team effort. It was a fun night of football.

John Scofield

The language is still being massaged, but the intent would be to block this specific deal.

Their players do a good job blocking shots, which always helps the team.

Tim Johnson

These often require different treatments in smaller quantities than your typical commercial operations with large blocks of plants.

The second half, something just wasn't right. We just weren't in sync. We weren't blocking out (for rebounds) and we couldn't get a shot to drop for us.

Scott Wright

This is clearly an important ... and watershed event for the entire industry, but it's no real surprise. Everyone figured Ameritech would be the first one out of the blocks on this.

Once again, we give up a goal on the first shot of the game. That first one got by us, but after that we were able to play hard on defense and block a lot of shots before they even got to our goalie.

Once I got to the line I knew I had to make the first one. The first one was the key. I had to make it for the guys. I tried to block their fans out as much as I could. I was trying to go through my motion and sink the first one.