Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're definitely not exactly where we need to be from a performance standpoint. But I'm real proud of these guys. This is a very close team, and I'm extremely confident about this weekend.

You always have to remember your place. You can be close to the person, but you must know who you are and who he is. It's a fine balance. A delicate balance. It depends on your upbringing.

Lou Piniella

You always have regrets, but I needed to get close to home. My dad passed away this spring; I spent some valuable time with him. I had a couple of other things that were pressing ... Now, I'm a little freer again.

We're close to solving it, but we're going to keep working on it tonight.

We're close to it, but I don't want to focus on the other teams. We've got six more games, and we need those points. That's what we have to be focused on - our own game.

We're close to home, and we have family and friends there rooting for us, and that makes a big difference in your show.

We're close to having it in play. But you can't give 'em more than three outs. If you give them less than three outs, that takes the pressure off. But we gave them four, and we've gotta play better defense.

We're close to getting over that hump. We're willing to work more as a unit now. We just need to get a win.

We're closest to the ground. We're the people who actually have hands-on experience with Ford workers.

We're closer to US$80 (a barrel) than to US$70, and that's kind of discouraging.

We're closer to finding out how the pieces fit together. But it's still a work in progress. We're still trying to find that top eight and how they fit together.

We're closer to 1,500 than some people think. I don't know if it'll be this year or three or four years (from now).

Lindy Ruff

We're close now. If we were a yard away, we're inches away now.

We're close enough to a lot of top-50 teams so that if our standing remains or gets higher our ranking will move up. The girls relaxed, enjoyed the day, and they weren't grinding it so much today and were just relaxed. I'm very proud of their performance today and hopefully we can post another good number tomorrow to end our regular season on a positive note.

We're close enough so that the territory is up for grabs. It's great to see fans at away games.

We're close, but as you can see, we're not close enough. It's frustrating, but we just have to keep working at it.

We're close as a team, but we still have our groups that we're closer with. We've hung out a few times as a team. I just think we need to get better at communicating during the game.

We don't see them as competition. They're our sisters. We are really excited about it, actually - we have a close relationship with Aveda spas and salons.

We (Europe) aren't finished with the planets. We're planning to go back to Mars and we're planning also to go to Mercury, one of the most mysterious of planets very close to the Sun.

We earned a solid win today to close out the tournament. It was a good effort in doubles, which continued through singles. Now we'll come home and get ready for a tough non-conference opponent next week.

We're already starting to see valuations get stretched again. It's not unlikely that we can get back close to 1,700 on the Nasdaq, but I don't think that's necessarily justifiable. That's just a function of trading psychology in the short run.

We're a lot closer to I-A now. Normally, we might have some problems running the football. And the speed on special teams is usually pretty huge. Usually, their seconds are faster than our seconds. But I thought we competed extremely well.

We're a lot closer than we were, but we still have a lot of work to do. Everyone is trying diligently to get to an end where we can make a decision.

We really should be close to 100 percent on all of these measures. There's not much controversy about whether giving antibiotics to someone who has pneumonia is good or not.

Olli Jokinen

We really need to play over.500 (on the five-game trip), but lately we've been playing close to.700 at home. So if we can go.500 on the road from here on out we'll be fine.

We really need them to do well, ... There's a lot of ground to make up in the next few months if we're even going to be close to last year's attendance.

We finally won a close game. I figured it would be a one-goal game.

We have some needs position-wise that we'll define more as we get closer to the draft.

We are training every day to close the gap on that wrestler.

Anthony Zinni

We are the world's leader. We fill a void. There is no one out there that even comes close to filling the leadership role that we have, and some of the moral responsibilities that we have.

Dan Campbell

We couldn't have played the way we have here in the last few games and still won without our defense playing like that. They're really shutting it down over there. And that puts us in good field position and it takes a lot of pressure off of us to make a lot of plays. Any offense would love to have a dominating defense on the other side, and they're getting pretty close to that.

Well it's a tough vote it's gonna be a very close vote.

We played them close in Boise, but we've got to play a good game, as always. No one is going to roll over for you in conference.