Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marquis is a good, young coach with a great future. I'm sure he will do a wonderful job at Miami. Not to brag, but our wide receiving corps blocked pretty well and that's key in our running game. Marcus motivated our kids to do something they didn't want to do. Blocking is dirty work. Marcus got them to excel at blocking and that's good coaching.

Lines are two blocks long in both directions, ... The lines were that long in the morning and (my husband) is in line now and said he expected it to take an hour.

I will use that tape. That was a clinic on blocking out. Every single time, they completely sealed us out of there.

Brian Vickers

I wish I'd pulled harder to the bottom to block Jimmie, but we might have wrecked too. We missed the big wrecks, and we blocked when we could, and it was a race to the finish. At this speedway ... you've got a 50-50 shot - block high or block low - when they're coming at you.

Ivan Ljubicic

I woke up with a completely blocked neck and we worked on it all morning. I didn't know if I would play or not. It was probably the most difficult decision I had to make in my career - to play or not.

I was very nervous. I just tried to block out all the noise.

I was up there shaking at the line. I just had to concentrate and block out all the crowd noise.

I was upstairs. Next thing I knew, I was blocked up there. I couldn't hardly get out!

Steve Walsh

I was trying to screen on the wing, come back to the block and seal up. I was getting the shots I was looking for, and they were falling.

Mark Johnson

I was there holding his jacket, ... We hotfooted after him for about six blocks and then got into a little wrestling match in the middle of an intersection.

I was in between, whether to go out and block it or not. If I went out there and he missed it, they might have gotten a rebound tip or he could have dumped it down (low).

I was having a nap by the swimming pool and was awoken by this huge hand holding my wrist. I looked up and this gorilla-like shape had blocked out the sunlight. It was Freddie. 'It's alright, it's Freddie. I've never seen you quiet for so long David and I was just checking you still had a pulse,' Freddie told me.

I was happy with our up front play both offensively and defensively. For early on, I thought we picked up on most, if not 70 to 80 percent, of our line blocking assignments so I have to be pretty pleased with that after one week.

George Williams

It felt real good. Just to see the open field and I got some good blocks and it was the first touchdown (in Stockton) for our team so it felt real good.

I think right now we're not getting lanes in the running game that are clean, that he can see. But he's done well. I wish we would have blocked better on the offensive line.

I tell him he doesn't have to block every shot, but his presence alters the shots they take. Just his presence is intimidating.

I think he realized the situation and that this probably wasn't the time for screaming. He did a great job of motivating us and getting us to focus on exactly what we need to do and block out all the other stuff and don't worry about the score.

I think his chances of sticking in the NBA are slim. If he wants to get to the NBA, Albany is the right place for him. He can definitely help us inside; he doesn't score a lot of points but he can really block shots.

Barry Melrose

I still think that nobody gets into position quicker than Brett Hull, not a guy that's played. That's very hard to defense against. You don't have time to get in the lane to block the shot. His release and his shot were just phenomenal.

I think I've improved on my blocking a lot. My quickness at the net, transitioning back-and-forth, has gotten a lot better.

Dwane Casey

I thought it was a clean block at the end. It was a big win, a lot of people counted us for dead. I was glad to see our guys fight back, they met the challenge. Tonight the guys pulled together, responded and executed down the stretch on the fly.

Dave Tippett

I thought it was excellent. We blocked a lot of lanes and didn't give them a lot to shoot at, and on the chances they did get to the net, Turco was real good. We got a couple of big goals but the penalty-killing was the key for us.

Josh Smith

I thought I had a good block when they called the foul. I wanted to be in the game at the last minute.

Johnson is a player, but he also got good blocking upfront. They put eight players back to stop the pass, so we've got to run.

Stephan Pastis

I write for three or four hours and then hopefully I'll have something. Then I draw for the rest of the afternoon... I literally block out Wednesday-Thursday-Friday - I more or less disappear.

Jonathan Maberry

I write every day. Most weekdays, I write about ten hours a day. That doesn't mean eight hours of surfing the Net or watching videos on YouTube. I park my butt in a chair and write... I learned that writer's block is a myth created by people who don't have, or understand, a writing process.

Justin Williams leads the nation in blocks for a reason. He's got a long body and he's quick to get up (to block a shot). You've got to give him a lot of credit for stopping a lot of our offense.

Dwayne Roloson

I'm starting to get used to it. Starting to see what guys are doing and how they block shots, so I know where to look when they're going to do it.

Peter Gallagher

Maybe six blocks from where we live there is untold wealth. If your constituency is financially challenged, you're going to have to go elsewhere.

Maybe she blocked those foul shots at the end of the (second half).

Jonathan Martin

I don't go out in front of my house because my block is dangerous.

Jerry Bailey

I didn't get to a spot as early as I needed to. I got blocked and had nowhere to go. I had a feeling it was going to be too little too late.

I'd like to say we made him into a player. But we didn't. We showed him how to block and who to block and he took it from there. He's just a natural.