Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Modano

I've been fortunate to have been around long enough to get close to that.

I've been living a nightmare, worrying if she is hurt or ill. There is no one I hold closer to my heart than my sister, and I am deeply worried wondering how she is being treated.

Adam Nelson

I've been knocking on the door for a long time, ... I've had so many close calls.

Jason Lewis

It would be great to win at home. We've been real close a lot of times; we just haven't been able to pull the game out for whatever reason. We're not worried about the past right now, though. All we're concerned about is the future.

Nik Nanos

It would require Stephen Harper or someone very close to Stephen Harper to make a monumental blunder to turn those numbers around. This is Stephen Harper's election to lose.

It would have been a lot nicer if it was prettier. We haven't closed a game until now. This was a tight game and we closed it.

I've never had a round like that. That's as close to a perfect round of golf as I've ever played.

Things are returning to normal right now. Most of the weather has been, if not ideal, close to ideal, for producing vegetables. January should see pretty much of a normal movement of potatoes, sweet corn, peppers, cucumbers, squash.

They are all receiving close monitoring and appropriate treatment.

They are a great team and match up real well with us. The first time we wrestled them, our seniors didn't win the close matches that we needed them to. But we are in better condition now and Coach Martel has us matched up where we need to be.

We just got stops, rebounds and hit free throws. We've been trying to prove something every game and I think we've proven to ourselves that we can defend, rebound and hit free throws and if we keep doing that we'll win these close games.

We just got it, and need to look at it closer before we respond.

We were really fighting until the end. Even so close to the pole, I wasn't so sure we would make it.

Derrick Coleman

We were real frustrated. We knew we could have been right there with the top teams and we couldn't win the close games.

We were pretty close to making it (as a team to state). That makes it a good year.

We were pleased to be able to work closely with ICE on this case, ... This is just the latest example of the close working relationship between the Broward Sheriff's Office and federal law enforcement.

We were overall the better team. But we didn't put them away when we had the opportunity to. It turned out to be a game of survival when they closed the gap on a 15-point lead down to three.

What the goal of that financing was is something now coming under close scrutiny.

We lost close to $1.5 million yesterday and I'm sure we'll lose another $2 million at least today.

We lost a lot of close ones in the quarterfinals. But, we have nine wrestlers left and I'm pleased with that.

We lost a lot of close matches but it was a good season.

We lost a lot of close games and we hope to turn those close games into wins this year.

We lost a couple we should have won, but we won every close match.

We lost a couple of close ones to Perrysburg, including one that went to triple overtime. We jumped out to a big lead and I really liked the way we finished. Perrysburg was scoring about 71 points a game and we held them to 44.

We look to close out 2005 with a profitable fourth quarter.

We lost two very close matches. I thought we played well considering how much competition we've had.

We missed some opportunities in the first half to close the gap, but I thought we played as well on the defensive end as we can play.

We might not be the most talented team, but I think we're definitely one of the closest teams and definitely one of the most competitive teams ever.

We went from a market that was dramatically undervalued to one that is priced close to where it should be,

What's going to be key over the next week and determine how stocks perform is the interplay of pre-announcements versus brokerage upgrades. The corporate news will become more relevant than the economic news as we get closer to the period of quarterly reporting.

We had the good ISM data and the market reacted very positively. The one missing ingredient was the volume. What we're gonna watch closely in the coming day and weeks is if there is a follow-through on volume. Major institutions drive this market and volume is an indication of that.

We will not have any penalties. We knew that we would have three programs that were close and that we are in really good shape with some of our other programs. Overall, we are headed in the right direction.

Ehud Barak

We will not for a moment close the window ... when this is an opportunity to move toward a peace process,