A lot of credit goes to our players, especially our senior leadership. Leadership is action and they gave it all they had.


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I have to give our kids and our coaches credit. We worked hard. Our senior leadership is good.
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That block was huge. Our senior leadership was great tonight. We had a lot of talented young players...
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It came down to our seniors. They gave us the leadership and intensity.
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It's been a great mix. We've had fabulous senior leadership from day one; in fact our senior leaders...
LARRY HALE
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Our seniors, Hilary and Olivia, gave us a lot of leadership. A coach can try all he can to help his ...
CRAIG SHAEFFER
Most of it is our senior leadership. Last year we had nine seniors, and this year we have 22.
ADAM STEGEMAN
Our players didn't come out and compete at all. It came down to leadership and we didn't show any. I...
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We have senior leadership and they have a lot of poise. [The guys] are not panicking [when they fall...
CHARLEY JURIS
We have a lot of senior leadership in the back. We have a lot of newcomers and they are slowly start...
DOUG ALIOTH
With those players the leadership of a senior point guard, we'll be building on the nucleus they hav...
HEATHER HILL
His leadership, combined with our all-senior defense, will make it much tougher to score on South La...
MATT BLAMEY
Our senior leadership has been better than that. They have to step and take charge. I tried to play ...
CORKY CARD
One of the team goals is that we'd like to have excellent performances. This weekend's performances ...
BILL WADLEY
Our team chemistry from day one has been great. Our leadership from our veteran players has been bet...
TONY DITUCCI
They hate Malaysia, especially the current leadership, and hate it extremely.
MAHATHIR MOHAMAD
I look back and our best seasons have always been when I had a good number of seniors. That's the wa...
ANGELA MOODY
As the leadership team, we're taking bold and decisive action to evolve our organization and cul...
AMY HOOD
It's a very important role. They have a lot of leadership skills and they keep the other players foc...
BERTHA ORTIZ
We have to (control the ball), we have good senior leadership and I'm hoping they give us that good ...
BRENT WALSTON
Although only one senior is in the starting lineup this year, they have all been great at working wi...
BRUCE MORETON
That goes back to our leadership and it was a great group that time. It wasn't just me.
CASSIE CAMPBELL
(Dominic) showed a lot of courage and leadership. He kept our energy level up all night.
CAL COCHRAN
I have to give a lot of credit to the defense. Our defense is our greatest strength right now and th...
JAVIER TORRES
Good players make good plays. That's what that was. That's a credit to the seniors and their leaders...
KURT KUMMER
They all bring leadership to the team, ... (Schumaker) brings tenacity. He's a good defender and he ...
JUAN GUZMAN
They said how important it is for our party, how important it is for the leadership.
MIKE CASTLE
Jaclyn showed good senior leadership. Our back court really played well and we shot the ball well.
DAVE MEADE
Along with our other seniors, we have a lot of experience and leadership to guide our new members.
KRISTIAN KUEGLER
He's pitching like a senior with leadership. We didn't give him much support, but we gave him enough...
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I would move the bill, obviously, and I don't think that's what our leadership wants us to do.
REP PAUL CLYMER
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Next year our senior leadership will be second to none. Only if they continue to work and are willin...
DAVE GUSTIN
That's the senior leadership that they have. And when it comes to crunch time, they want to get it d...
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Our end game is to take out the leadership elements especially. These arrests are a means to that en...
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It's a great credit to the kids. I don't think anybody realistically expected us to win 20 games thi...
JAKE KRAUSE
A lot of people relate leadership to formalities. They believe that leadership is about being profes...
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Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demon...
ROBIN S. SHARMA
You have to give Midland a lot of credit. They were prepared for all our sets and they came ready to...
MARK ADAMS
I talked to the senior class about stepping up and showing leadership, and they did that. We had all...
FRANK PETTINEO
Too many talk about a company's leadership, referring to the senior most executives in the organ...
TRAVIS BRADBERRY
That was a lot of senior leadership out there for us, because we shot the ball poorly tonight.
BENJIE WOOD
Ryan and Greg are giving us great senior leadership on a young team. This team is learning and under...
TOM PARDALIS
In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal con...
DONALD RUMSFELD
It's a good start, obviously. It's the only convincing win we've had in an opener for the last coupl...
AB DETTORRE
The girls showed a lot of heart at the end to get the win. We had to battle one trip down the floor ...
JENNY TEATER
He was a big part of the leadership of our senior class. He has a work ethic that just seemed to inj...
BRENT FAUROTE
Leadership is action, not position.
DONALD H. MCGANNON
Leadership is an action, not a position.
DONALD H. MCGANNON
I give their team a lot of credit, they came to play. They gave us a game and I want to give them a ...
FRANK SPURCHISE
I was proud with the way we played, ... We played with a lot of heart and leadership. I'm proud of o...
DAVE MORRIS
I thought we played hard in the third. But we gave up a power play goal late to put them ahead and i...
BOB MANCINI
The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors t...
ISAIAH THOMAS
We have high aspirations for the our program and after a lot of deliberation, I feel it is time for ...
LYNN HICKEY
I'm proud of these players. They gave it everything they had.
IVAN DEJESUS
Not only are they tapping into money that they didn't know they had, but the earned income tax credi...
JOSIE BACALLAO
It is her testimony that these calls... were for improper purposes. It is our contention that they w...
CHARLES GITTINS
This is an extraordinary time in our history. It will take an extraordinary effort from our leadersh...
HANK BOUNDS
Give Lake Catholic credit. They made the plays when they had to, which is what a senior-laden team d...
DAVE MUNSON
The president is committed to saving Social Security, maintaining our hard won fiscal responsibility...
JOHN PODESTA
Most of our senior class has been playing since our sophomore year. We have a lot of great leadershi...
HARRY WATSON
One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the pu...
SATYA NADELLA
He's showing a lot of leadership that way. We need him. He's one of our more talented players; a pla...
JACQUES MARTIN
We gave it our best shot tonight and it wasn't enough. Give Cedarburg credit. They played a solid ga...
RON REICHLE
Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.
SIMON SINEK
Our senior men's program will be tremendously served by Mike's extraordinary capabilities and statur...
VAL ACKERMAN
I've notice that when people receive a leadership title they automatically get this mindset of "I'm ...
RYAN DE LA ROSA
We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of manageme...
BETH BROOKE
Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadershi...
EARL MONROE
It gave our kids confidence that they could play with some great players and teams.
JAY OSBORNE
Richard is a senior member of the House's Transportation Committee, ... I was on a relevant Senate c...
DAVID VITTER
(The senior class) knows what it is all about; they have been there and done that for several years ...
BOB SHANK
This team is certainly talented enough to duplicate a lot of feats that were accomplished last year....
MITCH GASPARD
The wins are a credit to our players. Our players are grinding it out everyday.
PETE HUGHES
Their leadership all year has been a key to our success thus far.
DOUG GORDON
Leadership is about getting your self to take action.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN
We gave them the game, they didn't earn it at all. I don't know what to say. Our girls said they gav...
ASHTON WHIDDEN
It lets me know how brave all of our Patriots were, and what they gave up. A lot of them, their live...
MARK WEBB
This is not the way you like to do it. I give our kids a lot of credit. They played with a lot of he...
JACK LEIPHEIMER
Our outfield had a great night. Tonight was the first night they saw a lot of action and they steppe...
KAREN VANDYKE
In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - in...
BARACK OBAMA
Bill did all my scouting reports for me. I'd never played our opponents before. Bill had. He remembe...
BILL KRUEGER
Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and l...
THABO MBEKI
I am really not sure what they have agreed to, ... In all the written material we've been given by o...
BILL ARCHER
I just think our guys are good at executing under pressure. We have good senior leadership and a sol...
ANDY GAST
It's going to require a fundamental shift in our resources, our money and our leadership.
RICHARD MILLER
Neal has been a steady hand in changing times, and our continued success through it all is a testame...
JEFF ZUCKER
They've all brought a lot of leadership to the younger girls on the team. They're the types of playe...
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The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling...
DENNIS CARDOZA
Our biggest problem when you look at this team is 15 out of 19 kids are freshmen and sophomores. We ...
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Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon.
DONALD H. MCGANNON
The problem people are seeing is they want new leadership and that's not offering enough new leaders...
MARY BONO
Great soccer is inspiring, on the street and in the stadium, and Nike is in Berlin today to celebrat...
CHARLIE DENSON
It's his leadership. He works so hard that it rubs off on everyone. He played AAU all summer and did...
CHAD CLUVER
The leadership structure has evolved with earmarks and leadership PACs where [the result is that] le...
JEFF FLAKE
The credit goes to the defensive line, ... They pressured him all night, and he was constantly throw...
BRIAN BELL
A lot of credit goes to our penalty killers. Your best penalty killer is your goaltender and he was ...
BARRY TROTZ
The difference in the game was their senior leadership. We're young and still having trouble finishi...
GLENN HATCH
It is good that they got that win, and it's a nice comeback. We're an inexperienced team and we try ...
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ALEXANDER POPE
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
ALEXANDER POPE
To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
ALEXANDER POPE
Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.
ALEXANDER POPE
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such...
ALEXANDER POPE
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE
There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
ALEXANDER POPE
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
ALEXANDER POPE
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
ALEXANDER POPE
The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
ALEXANDER POPE
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
ALEXANDER POPE
Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
ALEXANDER POPE
Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye...
ALEXANDER POPE
Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deep...
ALEXANDER POPE
Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
ALEXANDER POPE
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
ALEXANDER POPE
In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. P...
ALEXANDER POPE
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
ALEXANDER POPE
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
ALEXANDER POPE
Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
ALEXANDER POPE
Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, ...
ALEXANDER POPE
In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
ALEXANDER POPE
What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
ALEXANDER POPE
No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.
ALEXANDER POPE
See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
ALEXANDER POPE
Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
ALEXANDER POPE
One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
ALEXANDER POPE
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE
Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
ALEXANDER POPE