Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lance Berkman

We're the grunts. We just play baseball. Open it. Close it. I don't care.

Kobe Bryant

This was a must win for us. We played well the entire trip, but it's just that we weren't able to close things out. Tonight was a win that we desperately needed.

This was a hard fought win that moved us up another step closer to our goal of having a home playoff game.

There is really nobody to communicate with right now on this issue, because Americans are not plugged into it. I think Americans feel one or two steps removed from the Supreme Court, particularly when the confirmation process hasn't started. But as you get closer to the hearing and the vote, the volume on this thing is going to ramp way up.

There is only one relevant transaction, anything that's even close to this, and that's the Skyway deal. We are talking about, how do you operate something that's already built?

The parking spot was designated because one student was disabled, but could still walk to class. He just needed to have a parking spot closer to the buildings.

The parish president made the decision that he wouldn't risk the lives of the pump station operators, and we evacuated those people to the shelter closest to us, ... You want to know who's responsible for the flooding? Katrina's responsible.

This reflects a move into other traditional media where there's a lot more money circulating. It moves them closer to this goal of being a comprehensive, one-stop ad-buying platform for any media.

This show, by all intents and purposes, should have closed on the 21st. But if we get them in, they will spread the word. I'm positive.

To be able to come close and lose by nine and to be in control and lead was a good thing for us. But we'll get better." ()

Ben Wallace

When you get the opportunity to close a team out, you just have to come out with a lot of energy early. You just have to go out there and withstand some of their energy, play through it, and hopefully they'll wear themselves down.

Jarome Iginla

When you get that close and then you hear the other team, the other fans celebrating to 'Simply The Best' and 'We Are The Champions', that hurt. It hurt a lot. We didn't know who was holding the Cup, but each time someone else took it, you could hear the fans go nuts. We're just sitting there, soaking all of this in and imagining what it would feel like ... if it was us.

When you get a close game, you don't want controversy. I'm very confident in our officials.

Chris Paul

When you find yourself down 21 after one half, that's a pretty big hill to come back from. However, I felt our kids battled all the way to the end and never gave in. The score ends up a little closer than it should have been, but that's a credit to our kids not giving up.

Jeff Steele

When you have that, you're most likely going to win. We played pretty close to 32 minutes tonight. I thought Tuesday we played about 16.

When you have so many cultures living together in a close space, you have problems.

When you haven't won a lot of close games, you have to find a way to win. We battled through, got it done and that was important for us.

Nan Aron

When you practice with people, there's a desire to close ranks.

When you play teams that are close to you, you always have good games with them. You know what to expect, you've played each other so many times over the years, kids get to be familiar with each other and they're not intimidated.

Brian Kelly

When you play teams at 1 o'clock, in the heat, that's not used to being in this weather, you should be able to close teams out and win games.

There are a couple of races that weekend for us to look at, ... If we can get a prep in, I wouldn't want it to be any closer than two weeks before the Breeders' Cup. The 14th or the 15th would be an ideal scenario. It's just a matter of figuring out if he's ready to do it, and, if so, what race we want to go in.

Ron Moody

There are literally hundreds ... of legitimate public right of ways closed to public use.

There are indications that it will not happen on schedule but we hope very much that it would be as close to on schedule as possible, ... I think that it's important for the Israelis to move forward on the deployment.

We always talk about at halftime, you've got to come out strong in the fourth quarter of close games. You've got to get it in your opponent's mind there's no way you're going to let them get back in the game.

When you go down there and meet with them, keep as many options open as possible. We don't want any closed door deals. And we're not going to quit what we're doing with two weeks off.

We've got to figure out a way, but obviously, post defense starts with good perimeter defense. We've just got to continue to show improvement. We're not close to where we need to be offensively or defensively.

Carla Hall

When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.

Cindy Morgan

Men think they already know me. But as they get closer and closer, they become that 14-year-old again. A lot of men do stammer and blush a little bit.

Ray Floyd

With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.

With earnings winding down and not as much to focus on, you're getting very volatile reactions to economic numbers that are actually pretty close to estimates. You're also seeing some of the defensive names that are dependent on an economic recovery trading lower.

While it sounds as if most members see that the series of rate hikes since June 2004 is close to the end, it's not over until the economy slows. The minutes are a little past their stale date. Commodity prices are soaring.

Without a 'depression panic,' short-term rates probably would have bottomed fairly close to where they are today. Essentially, the Fed has just now returned interest rates back to recession lows and can now 'begin' to tighten.

With only two candidates, it's going to give voters an opportunity to very closely examine the track record of service to the town of Paradise Valley of the two candidates.