Famous Quotes & Sayings

With wood bats, when you get into playoff baseball, you're going to be in some close games. Teams aren't going to run away from each other, so I think winning these games is good for us.

Wow. All I can say is wow. He was really close (to not playing). He went and got X-rays today, had it looked at by the doctor, and it was down to the last buzzer.

Ken Jenkins

Woodlawn had to move its game to Sunday because Ascension Parish is going to close its schools tomorrow because of an evacuation order.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.

Writing a short story is like painting a picture on the head of a pin. And just getting everything to fit is - sometimes seems impossible. Writing a novel, though, is - has its own challenges of scope. And I think of that as painting a mural, where the challenge is that if you are close enough to work on it, you're too close to see the whole thing.

We're still struggling in a fog of volatility that may obscure the fact the market is, or may be close to, bottoming,

We're still obviously closely monitoring this. At this point, we still don't know exactly what's going on.

We're still losing those close ones. We need to keep working on winning our share of those kinds of games.

Simon Gagne

We're still in first. We lost a couple games recently and they won their games so they got closer to us. It's going to be a big game. We want to stay at the top.

Richard Holbrooke

We're still behind. But we picked up some steam and we closed the gap.

We're still a team trying to find our identity. Sometimes complacency sets in a little bit; we've got to figure out how to give that effort for as close to 48 minutes as possible.

Chauncey Billups

We're still a long way away from 72. If we're close in March, come talk to me then.

We're starting to run out of games. We have to win some here to close that gap, get our road record up. That's been our downfall all year.

We're running out of time babeThe dream will come no closer by itselfWe got to run after it now....

Joe Sakic

We're right there with everybody else. The division's tight. We were hoping to get closer to Calgary (on Sunday), but it didn't work out. Guys have worked hard all year and we're right in it.

Brian Smith

We've got five still alive. If we can keep on winning, especially on the front side of the bracket, we'll be pretty close to where we are right now.

Bill Cowher

We've got a very close team. Jerome has been an inspiration to us all year.

We've got a real tough opponent coming up. (They're) a beast. So we've got to figure out some way to hang with them. We seem to pull out these games, so if we stay close I think we should have a shot.

We've got a real tough opponent coming up. Cathedral's a beast. So we've got to figure out some way to hang with them. We seem to pull out these games, so if we stay close I think we should have a shot.

Steve Sampson

We've very close to being very good but that small measure comes in the way of scoring goals. It is inexcusable to lose the way we did.

Bronson Arroyo

Today was as close as I'm going to get to a regular season game in spring training. It was in front of a crowd that I enjoy playing in front of.

Margaret Atwood

. . . time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee. . . . I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Dusty Baker

Yeah, I've got a problem with it, but it's modern baseball. On a close play, you're going to do what's most natural to you. ... There's too many things that you can hurt ? fingers, wrist, elbow, shoulders. There's a lot of things that can get stepped on. There's a lot of things that can happen on a head-first play.

Paul Wilson

Yeah, it's tough. I feel like I'm letting them down every day I'm not out there and they (team) are getting closer to leaving. But if I start doing stupid stuff, like pushing myself too hard, it could cost me more time. So it's a fine line.

We needed this so bad. We had been so close in so many games, and to finally get over the hump is so big for our confidence.

We needed Robby to fill that starter role. Whether he stays in it or not ... he's such a valuable closer for us, also. He did a great job.

David Hess

We need to find close to another $2 million more

Ernie Johnson

We never got close before, and I hope they win. Any team that makes the state tournament can be proud, even if they lose the first game.

Dwane Casey

We need his offense. For us, he's the closest thing to that third scorer we need. He's the quickest guy we have.

We need goals like Clinton's just like we need ones like Johnson's. We need goals from inside the six-yard box, we want the strikers to get close in and put them away.

We needed to prove to ourselves we could win a close game. This was great for us.

We've been fortunate to win some close games and the credit goes to the kids because they're mentally tough and have been making the plays.

We've been fairly close right from the word go,