Everybody knows after a year off, timing is going to take a little while to come back. It's too bad for those guys, but they're serious guys. They're veterans. They'll jump right in and they'll be fine.
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Related Sometime theyll give a war and nobody will come. CARL SANDBURG Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr... JIM MORRISON We might be a little off as far as our timing goes. But our guys are going to be fine. This was a we... ALAIN VIGNEAULT Splits generally are positive for stocks if theyre done at the right time. The timing on this one lo... IAN WITTERS Most everybody needs clothes. Theyre going to need clothing--jeans, T-shirts, socks, the whole thing... CAROL JONES theyre missing whole streets. SAM WRIGHT Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore. ALEX HAMILTON These guys are warriors over here. We know that we've got a great chance to win the championship. An... LUIS RIVERA I'm one of those guys who knows when something serious is going on. And this is a lot more serious t... RAY RHODES There have been people that suggest that we should have a back door. But the reality is if you put a... TIM COOK Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very e... LILY COLLINS Everyone who could have got away did. Its really upsetting to see. The only people left are the ones... IAN WILLIAMSON Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals. THEODOR ADORNO You can practice your approach, your take off position, those things in the gym. You can do drills t... IAN WILSON He probably feels pressure to duplicate that this year. This is a big jump for those guys coming fro... JEFF BLAUSER It astounds me in a way, and I don't mean that in a patronizing way. Everyone is going to make the... RANDY WOLF This is going to be the most special dinner we have ever had. We always wanted to do something like ... GARY POWERS Those guys are capable, but they're both learning, and it's their first year, and it's going to take... BRYSON ROSSER The young guys did a good job in the third quarter. I know they got tired, but I didn't want to come... BOB WEISS Some guys seem to jump right out and win tournaments, but for me, I've been the kind of player w... DAVID HEARN With big guys, sometimes it take a a little bit longer. Not everybody comes in a Shaquille O'Neal an... BRIAN HILL I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After... CARLY RAE JEPSEN It's all about timing, movement and getting back to what you're familiar with, ... We had so many gu... JULIAN PETERSON Everybody is going to take it in a different way. Some guys, it'll take them a month to recover from... DAVE MACHEMER I'd only do that for a few closers - Mariano Rivera, Billy, [Eric] Gagne and [Trevor] Hoffman, ... T... UGUETH URBINA With a guy coming off Tommy John surgery, it's usually the second year those guys come around. We li... ALLARD BAIRD Those aren't guys you're going to replace. Myself, (Dan) McGillis and (Vladimir) Malakhov, we're goi... RICHARD MATVICHUK When he cuts from 185 to 173, he's going to have all the fat cut off him and he's even going to look... PAUL MILLER It's going to be hard to replace those guys. But we still have a good group coming back. RILEY WALLACE If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them. EDWARD DYER If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them EDWARD DYER We're going to look for those guys to pull the wagon a little bit. LEO VELEAS I think both those guys can come in and make a difference for us right away. JACKSON WHEELER I haven't really got a good look at some of those guys except for practice when they're going agains... CHAD ZMOLEK Going through 'The Partridge Family,' I looked up to people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck ... DAVID CASSIDY I told the team at breakfast we have to be smart enough to know that if we take anything for granted... DOM STARSIA We were young last time, too, and we ended up being 4-12 the next year. I'd like to think we'll be b... BRIAN URLACHER Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back... RUSSELL BAKER Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back... RUSSELL BAKER You're always going to be too young for something important to you, too old for something else, and ... AARON ALLSTON We're going to continue to hit the islands and make that a point of emphasis. We've got very good fr... KYLE WHITTINGHAM One of those guys will step up and do a nice job in there. But the maturity and being in a game situ... GARY ANDERSEN We're looking for Crowe, Wagner, Shelburne and Tingle to all have good a year. But it's going to tak... DONNIE WILLIAMS [Metcalf] just didn't have a good night. But like I've told people all year, we have other guys aver... JASON BUMBLIS I have that lacrosse feeling year-round. I started talking to guys in November and haven't stopped s... MAC MAUDE Yeah, it's going to be tough and Quincy knows that but some other guys need to step up. Our goal is ... GARY WATERS I'll give them some playoff experience and take some pressure off the guys who are trying to come ba... ERIC WEINRICH A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. A... SONNY LISTON I think he feels like it's time to get back with the guys a little bit. It's going to be an emotiona... KATHY LEWIS It gives the younger guys, who are going to be here a while, some hope for the future that you're go... ROCCO BALDELLI This year I'm just going to go after everybody for the entire match. I'm just focusing on staying in... ADAM VACCARI A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE We've got a lot of quality right now. Get us a defensive tackle and a little more depth, and we'll b... ANTONIO PIERCE When we get new crews it's impossible for them to break in because everyone is back to the same guys... BOB LOWERY They were just putting big guys onto little guys, and it worked for a while. OSI UMENYIORA For guys, growing older is fine. Gray hair and wrinkles aren't considered a bad thing. NIGEL BARKER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS They have some pretty good guys on that team, ... If you fall asleep on those guys, those guys will ... EARL LITTLE We talked the other day and some of our goals are close to the same. We'd like to be fighting for th... DERRICK LANDRUS As much bad stuff (as) they say about T.C., I'll give him that much. You take away the little nitpic... FRED TAYLOR Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you... LARRY HOLMES It's going to take a while for us to function like we want to function because so many guys are in n... SKIP PROSSER We were surprised by our score with McFarland. They have a good team with a lot of guys back from la... DAVE HIRSBRUNNER We might have a couple more come back, ... We're going to build the department again. It's going to ... HENRY JORDAN These guys are high school kids, so of course (struggling at times) is going to linger with them a b... GREG KAATZ I think we're going to have more guys that can help us than we did last year. I think we can get to ... DAVID LIGON Back in those days, a lot of guys sang on the street corners. We had a group called The Citations, b... JOE GRIFFO We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score. EDDIE JONES You know those guys can play. You don't have to worry about that. Because you know our head coach kn... KEYSHAWN JOHNSON It's all starting to sink in, but until you kick it off, you just never know for sure (how things wi... DANNY WHITE I think probably reports 2007 will be alright. It is a stout budget, but in 2008 we're going to have... HAPPY FULFORD Everybody is saying, they can't do this, they can't do that. I was happy for those guys to come out ... EDDIE JONES I think that refocused the guys a little bit. It got them back in the mindset not to take anything f... DAN ROSACKER I can see what some of the older kids will look at and not come out. I guess they thought it was not... BILLY MILLS The guys believe in the program, and that's the reason why we could put another banner in the wrestl... JOSHUA KATCHER I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like t... LANCE HENRIKSEN Radiation is a serious matter, but for me its effects are like water off a duck's back. EDUARD PAZUKHIN I know what kind of a team they are. I'm going to tell these guys, pack your lunch and be ready. Tho... MARQUAND MANUEL It's going to come down to executing, trying to keep guys off balance and disrupting timing. Tha... JAKE ARRIETA He'll help immensely. Eric gives stability back there. It allows the young guys to go back where the... KEN HITCHCOCK We're going in there for a dogfight because we know those guys are going to be ready to play. MAURICE JACKSON A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad... SONNY LISTON We are not a team with just two or three superstars. We can back up those guys, Cooper and Stump, wi... ROB BRAUN You don't make changes for change's sake. You put guys in that are healthy and in good form. Right n... DAVE SARACHAN We lost some guys to discipline and ineligibility but the guys we were counting on to come back came... GREGG PATNER Right now, our offense is really putting everyone else on its back and carrying us. There's going to... GABE KAPLER Both of those guys can still fly. I think that with having Priest, having Trent, and having Tony, th... BRIAN DAWKINS Sometimes, I even think we could take it a little more serious, but this is working. I think we're m... BRIANNA GERRIOR That's what you need out of guys in playoff baseball. You need guys to come off the bench and get bi... BOBBY SMITH It's going to be fun to go back and play those guys, ... I had five good years in New York, but thin... ANTHONY BECHT For one, we were putting (our defensive) guys in bad field position. And another thing, we weren't g... ALBERT YOUNG The timing is going to be a factor a little bit. But they're in the same situation. LONNIE STARKS Our guys have to take ownership of the team. We'll take a couple of days off, regroup and get back t... PAT MURPHY It's a little freakish. It seems like every year we got guys going down, but what can you do about i... DERREK LEE Guys are going to make plays. You've got to come back and fight. DARRENT WILLIAMS The economy is too weak right now. We need to jump-start it. The American Jobs Act will provide that... DAVID PLOUFFE If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. Theyll have enough to eat, a bed and ... DWIGHT D EISENHOWER The guys were really good about going out every day they were off, ... They'd come back to camp, eat... ERIC CUNNINGHAM They have quite a few new guys. In the middle of the lineup, they're new. But they've got three of t... BILL KINNEBERG It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whate... JOAN BAUER
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