We intend to re-invest this money. We intend to spend at or near the cap, less an adequate reserve for injuries. When you're re-shaping your team and make a major move, if you're going to do more than one thing, it makes sense to do it quickly. Bringing three or four or five players in over a 10-day period is preferable over a 60-day period.
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Related Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS To do eleven fights in four months is pretty crazy. In some shows that we do in Asia, there are thre... DANIEL WU If we get it over a three- or four-hour period, then we are in pretty good shape. The inlets have ti... RON SHINDOLL The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found... STEVEN SODERBERGH To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move you... JACK CANFIELD When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or ... JOYCE MEYER We aren't going to hit home runs day in and day out. It is going to be the little things that are go... 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ALEXIS TRUCHAN The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then i... NAT FAXON I saw one instance where the team played four games, in a five-day period, BRIAN HARRIS Cystoscopies gastroscopies biopsies. They can do three or four of those and make five or six hundred... DR. DAVID JONES A situation like this is very unique. You very seldom have the chance to coach 10 good players. On a... HERMAN HARRIED We're not going to go over to Lincoln and turn it over three or four or five times and expect to win... DAN MCCARNEY If we move two or three spots, that would be one thing, but I can't see us moving into the top five.... PHIL SAVAGE Was it coaching was it players or did I not do a very good job of bringing in players to give the co... A.J. SMITH Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... 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LEA SLOAN You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL They leave the lot pretty quick. They're pretty much in and out in about a three- or four-day period... ANDY MOHR Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym t... ABBY WAMBACH Last year we got three or four planes together and flew to Chandler for breakfast. We usually plan o... VIRAL SHAH I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite. SHANE L. KOYCZAN The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a... MEL GIBSON The rain was another step in the recovery, but it all depends on what happens over the next three or... STEVE BAYS a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. ... JIM VALVANO A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Their commitment to work with us during this period they've given us 60 days to get it done and I in... GOVERNOR BALDACCI To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS There has been a major bifurcation in the marketplace towards quality over the last three or four da... ALEXANDER HENDERSON The longer I love, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more impor... CHARLES R. SWINDOLL Here are some questions I am constantly fretting over: Do you splurge, or do you hoard? Do you live ... NORA EPHRON It's really quite an honor for me to still be able to do this, 10 years later. If my autograph can m... DOMINIQUE MOCEANU In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writ... ROBERT GOTTLIEB Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you... DAVID BYRNE You need an actor who can maintain a character over a long period of time. If you have a weak actor,... DAVID L. WOLPER There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark. ZE FRANK if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances. JULIA SOREL For me, living and making music, they're one thing. 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BILLIE BURKE People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. EDMUND BURKE In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being t... EDMUND BURKE Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. EDMUND BURKE The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion. EDMUND BURKE The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w... EDMUND BURKE It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gre... EDMUND BURKE Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out. MICHAEL BURKE Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. EDMUND BURKE The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One canno... EDMUND BURKE Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our... EDMUND BURKE People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin... EDMUND BURKE Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society... EDMUND BURKE Custom reconciles us to everything. EDMUND BURKE Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the ... EDMUND BURKE Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. EDMUND BURKE When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ... JAMES BURKE All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo... EDMUND BURKE Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not
exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i... EDMUND BURKE The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of
the most valuable and interesting ... EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity, who never look
backward to their ancestors. EDMUND BURKE A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not
yet hardened into the bone of manho... EDMUND BURKE Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little
more than to amuse you with storie... EDMUND BURKE Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. EDMUND BURKE