Famous Quotes & Sayings

He has an uncanny way to close out the world. His modus operandi is probably going to help him get through this better than most people's capabilities.

He is an extraordinary manager and leader of St. Jude, and he is in the right job for him. You need to be independent, hard-driving and be your own person. You're small and playing the rules close to the edge. That's not the J&J way.

He is excited about it. The thing that drew him to it the most was that it was closer to home. He wanted to be where we would be able to come and see his games.

Red McCombs

He is not a candidate. Never has been and won't be. I'm very close to Mack Brown. I have continuous contact with him. When we talk, we talk about football. Big surprise. But he is not and hasn't been even in any consideration for this." ()

He has to be close to death to not go out there and face off at a crucial time in the game. We hope we have a couple kids who can go out there and take some pressure off, but he's a warrior. He's the kind of guy who wants to be out there.

E. P. Thompson

He grabbed hold of the snake by the tail, picked it up. They found a water jug close by and they put him inside that.

He doesn't have to be in front, but he's got enough natural speed to lay fairly close and stay out of trouble.

Orrin Hatch

He got John moved to Fort Dix, closer to his mom and friends in New York. Orrin got John a guitar, too.

He got close to nature. Paul was fascinated by how insects move, and he used to run after butterflies with a net,

Scott Harding

He got close enough to scoop my wife and son, but the flames were so big he had to stay away.

Bob Stoops

He got better and better as the week went, and was close the other day. He just didn't have the lateral movement and the pace that he needs.

Hines Ward

He'd rather have me a healthy 95 percent, close to 100 percent, rather than 75 percent all year,

He does have a history of drug use. We don't know how recent, or if any drug use occurred up to the time of his death. We just need to rule it out before we close the case.

He lost many friends of his that he was very close with,

Rick Carlisle

He may have moved his schedule up because of what happened in Memphis last night. We knew he was getting closer and closer. I thought it could be this week some time.

Dennis Franchione

He never really wavered. Obviously, when you've got a team that played for the national championship three years in a row hammering you, it takes some intestinal fortitude to stand up to that and play close to home where your family can see you play. Mike stood right in there all the way through this process.

He never made an offensive move. He was tough, but it looked like he just wanted to stay close and find a way to win in the end. I tried to put a little distance between us in the score and put some pressure on so they don't think about what they can do next.

He'll go into spring training as the closer and he'll have every opportunity to be the closer for 2006.

Ned Yost

He needs an inning badly. It doesn't help matters for any closer to go that long without pitching.

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.