Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

You reward everybody for what they do best. We want the guys who take the charges, block the shots and we have a stat for getting loose balls, for diving on the floor. We put emphasis on those little statistics, when everybody only wants to know about rebounds, assists and scoring. It's not just about who scores all the points.

Bottom line is we did a poor job blocking out and rebounding.

Between classes, eight students walked the halls cheering, blocking the hallways, chanting. They were protesting.

Everything they did, we practiced against. They just whipped us up front. When we had eight guys in the box, they blocked us. When we had nine guys in the box, they blocked us.

Even though he (Manning) didn't score he was still a force. He was finding someone else, he was getting rebounds and blocking shots. He was still the difference. There's only so much you can do with that kid. He's just a great player.

Be it block shots, be it rebounds, be it a dunk here or a dunk there. I'd love to play like I did tonight every single game. That's the goal.

Jim Tressel

Bobby Carpenter makes things happen. He's a nightmare for those tackles when he's rushing. He's got tremendous range as a linebacker and covers so much ground. I don't see him get blocked very often. He makes plays.

Marcedes Lewis

Blocking to me now is just as good as making a catch and running a guy over and scoring a touchdown. After my sophomore year, I got a different tight ends coach and he really just made me realize that if I wanted to be anywhere, I would have to put my face in someone's helmet.

Dave Tippett

Blocking shots, it's going to hurt. You can't win in this game without getting hurt.

B. F. Skinner

Blocking shots is the last line of defense, you don't want to rely on it.

Blocking on a country level is now known to work well. Where it gets harder is to block within a country, like the U.S. When you're looking at Internet addresses, it's hard to say whether someone's in Philadelphia or New York.

Blocking for Coco and seeing him break through the hole gives us a good feeling. We love to block and make things happen.

Michael Robinson

Blocking downfield overall was great from the receivers.

Big impact. We were kind of down. Those big blocks got our intensity picked up a little bit.

Andy Reid

Everybody is a big part of that. We need to do a better job blocking and make sure we hit the holes. Everybody has a piece of that.

Ron Wyden

Everybody comes to a hearing, and they could be giving the same position paper from 10 years ago. All they need to do is change the dates, ... If you look at the tapestry of environmental legislation today . . . both sides have the capacity to block each other.

Gavin Henson

It's the rule I'm talking about. I know of people who feel frustrated when they find their way blocked by these guys and I understand their feelings.

It still all comes down to blocking and tackling. The kids are excited. They're showing up and doing what they need to do.

It's one of the cultural events. They give out Olympic medals. There will be eight blocks of ice and 18 hours to compete.

Mark Anderson

It's not true. We aren't going to have big, white blocks downtown.

It's obvious the system can't stand the scrutiny, even from several blocks away. It's not a very good day for Cuban justice.

It's like a football team that doesn't know how to block and tackle. It doesn't make much sense to spend time learning plays if they can't block and tackle.

It's more of a passing offense, instead of lining up and blocking most of the time, ... It's made for me.

It's a lot more fun to run block than it is to pass block, because pass blocking you're kind of sitting back there letting the guys run right at you. Run blocks, you're kind of taking more of the initiative. It was fun.

Greta Gerwig

When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.