Famous Quotes & Sayings

In this meet I wasn't expecting anything (or) to be close to him. I'm actually just happy to be diving in this meet.

John Foxe

In this league, you lose your close games and you're 7-9. You win your close games and you're 10-6, 11-5. That's just the way it is. There's no question this league is clumped.

I just gave up a couple of singles in a row mixed with a walk or two. I threw a lot of close pitches that could have been called either way.

Brandon Rush

I have that down pat. I can shoot it over a big guy. The only way to stop it is to keep me from getting that close in.

I hope it gives us some momentum going into the playoffs. It was a great way to close out the regular season.

Retief Goosen

I hit a nine iron perfectly to get close to the hole, then unfortunately hit the par putt a little too hard.

Elizabeth Warren

I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.

Bruce Bochy

I hope that gets worked out with Trevor. I can't say enough about what he's done for the San Diego Padres , the community, myself. He's been my closer since I've been managing.

Alan Blinder

It's not a lack of transparency when you stop giving information when there is nothing to give, and we're getting pretty close to that point.

Pat Riley

It's not about long, enduring practices. It's about practicing on the right things. That's got to be our objective as we're trying to still close out the season.

It's never a good time to close an interstate lane, especially in Gwinnett County, but we have to work. We will definitely impact somebody, but we're trying to get in the way of as few people as possible.

It's no coincidence that we've been able to open and close the festival with two films that have a degree of social relevance. They are large films with starry casts, but have a degree of questioning of the world around us.

It's no coincidence that it's close to Valentine's Day.

It's really a smart move on his part because once you're in that closer role, there are days you just got to go, you got to risk it. But here we can protect him better. For him and for us it makes a lot of sense.

It's really about efficiency. We needed to close one school.

It's real. It's very dangerous out there. We've all had close calls. There's been people hurt, injured and killed and it's dangerous.

Any American who watches Korea in Washington will watch closely how it will unfold.

Any time you get a conference win, it's a step closer toward the top of the ladder.

Jon Flanagan

Any time you play a close game and come out with a victory, it shows toughness. If you want to be a very good team, you have to expect to win the close ones.

Slick just got me in the door, ... Then I had to close the door.

Vanna Bonta

Slander is the only way some have of feeling close to accomplishment.

Thomas Schelling

Social scientists have to either go out into the field themselves or be in very close contact with those in the field.

Howard Stern

so dangerously close to being forced off the air.

Wyndham Lewis

So-called ''austerity,'' the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. ''Pull in your belt'' is a slogan closely related to ''gird up your loins,'' or the guns-butter metaphor.

At the end of the year, economic growth should reach a level close to potential growth,

At this stage we look at potential and we see that flood potential is near normal. We don't want to make a speculation about drought, but it is something we need to watch very closely in the coming weeks and months.

That's big for a team that hasn't had a lot of success in close games. It's nice to see them relax under pressure.

That's been the focus all year long. So it's good to get one step closer to where we want to be.

Kurt Busch

That's exactly what we're hoping for this time around - another great day and a super team effort. We definitely plan on starting up closer to the front than we did there that day.

That's exactly what we expected. We expected close games this weekend. The No. 1 seed all the way down to the No. 7 seed played tight games this season. We tied them (R.C. Central) 2-2 earlier this season. Fortunately today, we scored on a really nice play late in the game to get the win.

Shaun Alexander

That might help us. The Steelers have played great on the road in the playoffs, but this might be the closest they've had to a home game with all of the support here in Detroit.

That means we will keep a closer eye on you.

That's as close to a perfect round of golf as I've ever played,