Famous Quotes & Sayings

He saw a crack in the defense and luckily he made it and got fouled. But he is a senior and a leader, and we need him to do things like that in close games.

He's been working hard on staying closed (in his stance) and he did a good job." ()

If a person is out here and they want to get into the supplier business, this puts them in close proximity to a major automotive plant.

If anything, we're going to dig in and do more because we're very close and we've got to get over the edge.

Abu Abbas

If all options are closed before the Palestinians to get their rights, then only God knows what the Palestinians would do.

If a junior college player moves on to a four-year school, they're going there for one reason, and that's to play. If they don't play, they're not very happy. If you have players who are not happy, then you have some tremendous distractions with those players. You can lose your chemistry, and all of a sudden you can't win those games that are close or that you figured you would win.

If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.

I don't think we're close (to playing our best) yet. I think we took a step down with our defense. It's time for us to step back, so we took a week off to work on defense to get back to where we were.

I don't think we're quite ready yet. As of Friday afternoon, we were not. But we're right close to it,

I don't want somebody coming up there and getting close to it and something coming off and hurting them. It's getting to be a hazard.

I don't want any fouls. It was just basically, go in and try to establish the floor without fouling. The referees, I knew they were going to have the whistle in their mouth as soon as I got close to somebody with the ball.

I don't understand it. Early in the season, we were playing quality 6A schools and we were competing with them. We'd either lose a close match or win a close match. I don't really know what's going on with them now.

I don't try to force anything. I let the game come to me. They closed on me early, so I was swinging it out. And then they stopped doubling me, so I knew I could take control.

I don?t want to be closed for six months.

I expect two more close games. Like I said before the series started, its going to come down to who makes the least mistakes.

Valerie Steele

I expect the closest she got was something like Venice.

I expected a close game, a very physical game. But I think we stretched them out there in the first quarter by hitting a lot of threes and then we started getting a lot of offensive rebounds, and I think it just kind of snowballed from there. We knew we could run some sets and I told them before the game, if the shots are dropping, let's run with it.

I don't think it's any secret that we're close to finalising a deal for Potagetz. We think he will strengthen the squad and there are a few details to sort.

I don't think it's any easier. I really don't. My first couple years as head coach, I ran around selling a dream, and I'm still selling a dream, only there is a little more substance to it now because we've taken a step in the right direct. But it's still just as hard of work to close the deal. And any time you relax, I don't think you'll do very well. You have to work just as hard as before.

E. B. White

For us to do anything close to unanimous is great for us. People who don't often vote together voted tonight to move this system forward.

Curt Schilling

For us to be 7-3 after 10 games when our offense isn't even close to hitting its stride is a positive thing.

For us, every game has been close like this. We haven't had a blowout all season.

Desmond Mason

For us, at times it got too close for comfort down the stretch. The one thing we need to continue to learn how to do is how to put teams away. We had a stretch during the season where we were doing that, consistently putting teams away. But recently we're letting guys hang around. That's something we can't do.

Phil Garner

For us, 44 years of getting close and not getting to the big dance has been frustrating, ... So this is a wonderful accomplishment for our city, for our organization, everybody that's been involved in it.

Allen Iverson

Forty-one games in, you should know how to close out games.

Colleen McCullough

Forty-four years is about as close to modern life as I want to go because I know now, from where I am, what was important about 1960 in social terms." ()

Glasgow has lost a lot of close games. They play everybody tough.

Giving up a two-run homer in the first inning is not what you have in mind. But you don't give up, you don't think too much about it. You just concentrate on keeping the game close from that point on. That's what I did and I was rewarded for it. We put up a lot of runs. It's no secret what we're going to do. We're going to pound people.

Given the steady diet of 'measured' rate hikes the Fed has provided in the past year and a half, many of you may be wondering when enough is enough. Let me first respond by saying, the closer we get, the less explicit we can be on that point; it's my personal opinion that as policymakers we should resist the temptation to say more than we know at any given time.

God forbid they will be in a close game and need a last-second shot.

If it was close by, he was there.

If it's life or limb threatening, we recommend the emergency room, and we still work closely with Methodist Hospitals. But if a cook cuts himself or an employees hurts their back or knee, we can treat them. We're a one stop shop, we currently have three clinics and are hoping to expand.

If it weren't for the students, I would have been closed years ago. I wish more would come here. A lot of them go to the larger gyms. They're never going to get in better shape then they would here.