Famous Quotes & Sayings

Flip Saunders

The satisfying thing about this game is it puts us 16 games up over our next closest team in the division with 26 to go. That's pretty good.

The roof being closed should have helped me so I'm very disappointed.

I've thought for three days now this was going to be another battle. I think we're learning how to win these close games. It requires a lot of energy on the defensive end and rebounding to make that happen.

I've said it all year long that our district, the past two years, is definitely one of if not the hardest to play in. Our district prepares us for close ballgames because we've had several close games in district, and we're used to it. That's a compliment to our district as far as how tough it is.

Ive never heard of any president being so close to his people.

You hope that it gets back in sync. But I don't know. I don't look at the Euros that closely but I think it's going to be a while before they have a major player again. I think all the good ones are gone out of Europe, and it's going to be a while there.

Adam Scott

You have to prepare hard for every game. All of the scores have been so close this year. There is some great competition out here, and that's a great thing.

James Blake

You have to play pretty close to perfect.

You have to make shots so close to the rim.

Amy Klobuchar

You have a Republican House, close numbers in the Senate, a Democratic president. If we're going to move forward at all as a country, we're going to have to do it by standing together.

You have an oil market that is quite tight in the products side, particularly in the U.S.. Then you have a hurricane which closed eight refineries. The market looks at the situation and realizes supplies are even tighter. Prices will only fall if demand declines.

You can immediately see what's in the top of that closet and pull it down the next season.

Joe Torre

With his experience and his ability, he could be a seventh-, eighth- or ninth-inning guy. He could be your closer on the days Mo has to have a day off.

With respect to short selling, ... the goal of all of us is to have a market that most closely approximates the normal trading environment. As a result of that, you can tell in which direction we will probably be leaning.

Felipe Alou

You have a closer like Benitez, you want to use him, but we've got to develop a kid, too.

We always knew where their shooters were so we could close in on them.

This year is going to be a great year for the semiconductor sector in terms of revenue growth. And we think that next year is going to be good, but the revenue growth rate is going so slow. I think we've known that for well over a year. And it's just that we're getting closer to that point so at what point do you start to let go of some of the gains that you've had over the past year and a half or two years?

What we are seeing is that customers are taking longer to make decisions and as a result, taking longer to close business,

What to do is not so simple, and we are not even close to having a solid response yet.

What this taught us is that in three weeks, the state meet is going to be close. This prepared us for that close meet. These seniors haven?t experienced a state championship and they want to be part of one. Sometimes you don?t realize how close it can be until a meet like this. This lets us know where we need to double up and get some extra points.

We've pulled our distribution in closer to our core market by eliminating San Antonio, Dallas, far South Texas and parts of Louisiana.

Julie Gerberding

We've probably never been closer to a pandemic than the year 1917.

We were originally scheduled to close in mid-April on the properties. To do that we have to give them notice by March 15.

What everybody says about Missy is that she's so consistent, ... Of all her jumps in the first three events, all but two have been elites. There's nobody even close in the database like that.

What they are doing is sending a signal they are no closer to the end of the tightening cycle than they were at the January meeting. We have little doubt that the new Fed is concerned about inflation and, probably more importantly, inflation expectations.

We talked to the younger kids, and told them they needed to close the gap for the older guys. They did their job.

We talked the other day and some of our goals are close to the same. We'd like to be fighting for the conference championship. Mount Zion is going to be tough. They won it last year and have everybody back, but we want to be in it until the end. We have a lot of guys to replace, but these guys have been pretty successful in the past and they are working hard.

We slowed the game down, got some stops and forced them to take long shots. We got some easy shots and just closed it out.

Through this whole process, we're going to work very closely with the Legislature.

Through these times, we've become close as a team. We try to make teams do things out of the ordinary. We tried to make them speed their game up.

We've been so frustratingly close that you just wonder when you're going to get a break. Maybe this is the year.

We've been so close so often. We finally earned one. Maybe we brightened it up for Sam Rayburn.

We try not to look at it (the standings). Each game we win it's closer and closer and hopefully we're going to continue the next few games to keep winning. Then we can think about the playoffs.