Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Williams

Last week I felt like I was still recovering. But today is proof my shoulder is healed now 100 percent or close to it.

I think everyone played pretty well today. Our team lost a close one last year, so we wanted to come out and put it to them this year and we did that.

Shelden Williams

I saw him throw the elbow the first time, so I tried to go in a little closer to see if he'd do it again. He did it again.

I saw a van pull up next to the storm drain. The driver got out, looked around, got back in and moved his van closer to the drain.

I see it much differently than everyone else because they are exceptionally good. They have a lot of talent. In the AFL, the games are so close and if you don't play well, you are going to be in situations you don't want to be in.

Onyx is not for sale, and we consider the matter closed now.

On Wednesday, we had four to five patients come to the emergency room with problems due to their running generators in closed areas.

Our kids made some big plays. The score would have definitely been a lot closer if they hadn't.

Our kids have been here before. They've had a lot of experience with close games.

Our kids have been extremely close and probably didn't get on each other as much as maybe they should.

Our guys just stepped up and hit some free throws at the end. We've been so close so many times, it was good to see us finally pull one out.

Our guys are tough. We've been battle-tested. We've had overtime games in the season, double-overtime games, so the close games really don't rattle us at this point.

Our kids, all year, down the stretch have been able to pull out games at the end. We've been winning some close ones.

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.

Ricky Ponting

We were confident of going close -- maybe not as close as it was in the end.

We were coming down here hoping to get two to stay close to the top of the conference. Because last week I felt we gave one away. We felt we had to come down here to stay in the conference race, and now it's going to be hard.

We were close to doing what we were taught and what I expect. But the third quarter threw that off.

Mark Anderson

We were close -- the top of that ridge.

We were close last year and the year before, but couldn't quite push it over the hump. This year should be the year.

We need to play at a level much closer to the level we have found at some points in this season.