Famous Quotes & Sayings

We did a nice job defensively, with stop after stop after stop, but we couldn't convert at the other end.

We didn't make our free throws. It's pretty simple. We didn't convert at the free-throw line - that's the equivalent of a turnover (each time). It's about making shots you need to make. You have got to make free throws to win games. And without defensive rebounding you're not going to win.

We had several one-run losses. Had we been able to convert half of those into wins, we'd be in the playoffs right now.

Peyton Manning

We're doing a good job of getting into the third-and-shorts, ... When you get into those, you've got to be able to convert them.

We wanted to push out defensively, play aggressive, try to create turnovers and convert that into offense.

Joan Smith

I've never met an evangelist who gave up so easily and I hope she wasn't sent off for retraining when she reported back to HQ, sans convert but with some useful gardening tips.

Billy Donovan

We missed a lot of easy baskets and missed a lot of opportunities. We had decent looks and couldn't convert in a lot of situations.

We have to convert to the world stage, we can't just walk away from the Commonwealth Games and be satisfied with our results.

Kyle Boller

We gotta stay out of third and long. We have to give ourselves a chance. It's tough to convert on long distances. We'll just have to watch the tape. We still have a long season to go. We have to correct our mistakes and get better.

The team was crashing the interior and fighting for every loose ball. Unfortunately, we only converted a handful of those opportunities, and when fouled,we didn't do well from the stripe (12-for-30).

Michael Williams

(The tenant) understood it was a single-family (house) converted to a two-family dwelling without permission to do so,

The thing is, when you have an inside game you have a greater tendency to draw fouls and contact. Honestly, we don't have an inside game. We don't have back-to-the-basket guys. Our '5' guys are really '3s' and '4s' and I've converted them because you have to play somewhere inside of 10 feet. It may not be fair to them, but that's the situation that we're in.

This was a tough loss. We missed key free throws and weren't able to convert in key situations.

It was a fantastic match. It could have been double figures if we had converted all of our chances.

Rainer Maria Rilke

That is the principle thing - not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things

It seems like she is kind of a recent convert to being the fiscal watchdog.

It's fairly easy to see how you can convert the chromosomes from the macaque to the human.

That's something that we wanted to do. But when we get those turnovers, we've got to come back and convert them into points. We didn't do that tonight.

That may be one of very first major projects other than houses being converted and constructed.

Paul Davies

Everyone plays a little tighter, and I'm just trying to create something. If you can get a turnover and convert it, it's a big lift for the team.

David Nabarro

That outbreak was noted by the villagers, but was not handled because they didn't report it in time. We have to work harder on helping to convert knowledge into practice.

Jim Lee

I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go.

So much irony in this story. We the leftists converted suddenly and started to pray for Sharon's health.

It was a good night. We always had a hand in the shooters' face. We switched well. Our quickness enabled us to get a lot of long rebounds and convert them into points on the break. The guys are learning what we're teaching them.

Public funds were being used to fund a road show, really, to convert teens to Christianity.

Our defense was pretty good. We just couldn't convert on the turnovers we created.

Luis Aragones

Of course we have always had good players technically but in recent years we have not been able to convert that talent into international success,

The movies have helped some. We're seeing a new generation of readers. We're seeing a lot of kids. We're hoping to convert them to readers.

The way yogurt works is you take the old yogurt culture and you put it in milk. You have to put enough of the old culture in, and then that old culture will convert the milk into yogurt.

They were converted to a larger-size tank but they just can't get it right. All of a sudden it starts cutting out.

It really starts with getting less third-and-long situations, and that's what we've gotten ourselves into early. Our short yardage has hurt us. We've missed on three third-and-ones and one third-and two. If you convert those, we're middle of the pack on third down. Now we've been great in short yardage (in the past). It hasn't been great to start out with, and we'll improve on that.

Forever 21 has the option to operate either a second format or convert those Gadzooks stores into its own brand,

Milton Friedman

Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting.