Famous Quotes & Sayings

The system really blocked us big time, the government. It's been very difficult to knock down that door, but I can't stop now either. I said I was going to fill 20 apartments, and I'm going to do it.

Lee Baca

(The suspect) had been circling the block for about four hours, in a strange manner, ... American Morning.

The three of them slammed the door on a very good offensive hockey team, blocking shots and doing whatever they had to do.

The sound is throughout the park, and you can hear music a block away.

The thing you notice about Domanick, like all great backs, when he's in there, he makes things happen. The line is blocking the same as they do with other backs, but for some reason when he's in there, you gain yards.

Bret Bielema

The thing that you've got to be always conscientious of when you're playing a team that likes to chop block, ... is not overemphasizing to the point that they're looking for the chop block instead of going to make the play.

I used to walk past this block of flats and wonder: 'Who could have built that? What were they thinking? What were they trying to do?

I wanted him to throw the same pitch and I gave him a signal to tell him, 'I'll block this one,'

Mike Tomlin

Teams have been blocking him for three or four years now. He always has to take on a blocker - a tackle, a guard, a back. He has a rush plan just like a defensive end, and he takes it personally.

Sometimes they have options moving outside just two blocks of where they're now located.

Sometimes blocking pucks doesn't feel real good. But that's something he does, and it's something that's contagious with his teammates.

Alexander Mogilny

It would be better for the Russian authorities to show that there are some elements of civil society and freedom, and not block our organizations from taking part in mass demonstrations.

Jerry Sloan

I understand guys missing shots and that sort of thing. But I don't understand not being able to block them off the boards and give them second shots right when we're trying to win a ballgame.

It was very disjointed. They had 11 blocked shots. We haven't played in a game where the opposition has had 11 blocked shots.

Mack Brown

It was very controversial when we did it. I remember people asking, 'Coach, how dumb are you? He might get hurt.' He blocked a punt on his first play.

It was tough for us the whole game. You think you've got one of them blocked out and the other would get the rebound. It was hard trying to fight for rebounds and block them out at the same time.

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight. You couldn't see anything. This is without a doubt the largest incident we've seen around here in at least a decade.

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

The bottom line is this is not what we bought into when we came to Atlanta. If we would have known Peerless was going to play a blocking receiver role and not a vertical wide receiver, we wouldn't have gone in that direction. But it was a situation where the Falcons organization went through a changing of the guard, and Peerless got caught in that situation and it didn't coincide with his talent.

Gary Smith

The bottom line is that we just didn't do a very good job of blocking people. We didn't execute.

At what point do we stop continuing to try? It can be contagious if one or two people a block do it (clean their streets and gutters and trim trees).

Edward Whitacre, Jr.

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

As long as we're keeping our linemen in a position to feeling confident and not put them out there to block for three-and-a-half to four seconds, we'll have a shot to make some plays.

That (patio block catastrophe) never should have happened.

Dwight Howard

That's what we need every night out of me and him. He's been more consistent so far of late, as far as blocking shots.

Ilya Kovalchuk

That's my job, to score goals and score as many as I can. I don't know if I'm going to be the leader of scoring or not. I just want to help my team win as many games as I can. Maybe I'm going to block the shot and we're going to win the game.

That's inexcusable. We worked too hard on that. You can't have a punt blocked and win a football game.

That opened the door and showed us the big plays were there for us. (Schilling) has got some talent. We could feel the momentum going our way then and things started clicking. Guys started making their blocks and gang tackling.

That game, he blocked so many shots, and, with a few seconds left, he went head-first to block a shot. It was amazing. That can help more than scoring goals when you block shots like that. So maybe he's not scoring that much, but he's still doing a great job for us.

Jon Gruden

We've got a guy named Alstott that's been known to do some damage (in short yardage). We have some deception there too now with a couple of tight ends that can not only block but get down the field and do some things.

This whole game was just huge for our team. Hopefully it is a building block to finish the rest of league season strong and make some noise in the playoffs.

Those possessions we contested (shots), everybody blocked out and that led to our run. When you stop a team and they're taking contested jumpers, that frustrates them into making other decisions.

Paul Elliott

This was a big win because we had two talented, evenly matched teams that mirror each other in terms of style of play. The difference tonight was our serve-receive passing. We didn't block a lot of balls, but we made adjustments that worked out.