Grab Quotations | Page 5

It's like having a new dance partner. It looks like MTV, and you grab its hands, but you're not sure how it's going to move yet. You have to learn what does and doesn't react.

That's the character of this team. There aren't too many 2-21 teams in the nation who will grab 10 offensive rebounds. Our problem was not being able to put the ball on the hole.

As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.

You can't just grab a sandwich or a sub or a piece of pizza.

You don't want to grab their tail or touch them, go for a ride or do anything that alters their natural behavior.

They grab and gamble all over the court. We haven't faced that this year. We turned the ball over 14 times in the first half (in a 77-75 loss to Dickinson in December). We are only averaging around 14 a game.

They gave us chances. They missed some free throws. They took some quick shots. They gave us chances to grab the game and we didn't have it within ourselves to do that.

They gave us chances to grab the game. We just didn't have it within us to do that.

There really was no reason to drop him into a pot of boiling water when we can drop him in and warm it up gently. Guy will grab on to where we are and where we're going and what is needed quickly.

It was deteriorating rapidly, so it's logical for NBC to grab it by the reins.

It was both self-regulating and self-selecting. If someone came banging on the door at midnight wanting to play hockey, you'd grab for your stick.

It wasn't him just going off and getting in people's faces. He did grab our attention, especially when he said if he has to have another meeting, it's not going to be fun. He said there will be a lot of guys getting shipped out of here, and he's going to air a lot of guys out.

It's a tradition for many people to grab a newspaper, their dog's leash and a plastic bag before going on a walk. They use the plastic bag to pick up his little gift.

It's just a lack of mental concentration. You jump up and block a shot. You don't reach in or grab a guy by the shirt; that's something we're trying to get him to understand.

We expect just to grab a few things, like personal documents, some pictures and jewelry if it's still there, ... We're just going now and hoping to get an early start on this.

We're very high on Eddie. Hopefully, he'll come to Spring Training and grab that job. It's his to take.

I told Minnesota they'd better take care of her or somebody is going to grab her. And they did.

It was a tale of two halves. We had a chance in the first half to grab control of the game and we didn't finish.

It was a tale of two halves. We had a chance to grab control of the game and we didn't finish the first half well. We kind of let them off the hook a little bit. They came out and dominated the second half. They overpowered us inside.

It was a simple move so customers can see the produce being made and see how fresh our ingredients are. From there, they can pick up a recipe card and shop through the store for ingredients, grab a side dish made by our chefs or allow us to prepare it all.

It was a rodeo out there. You can't take your hand off your stick and grab a guy by the jersey. We have new rules for a reason. But we've been getting the breaks. You don't get the calls when you get outworked.

Those two games we have to grab a hold of it. It's not the end of the world yet. We just have to make sure we nip it right away.

To almost grab a point last weekend was almost like a victory.

We fully understand the principles of supply and demand. But it is difficult to see this as anything other than a $14 billion cash grab by the oil industry that is pouring salt into the wounds of a global crisis.

We just thought it was a good idea. Who wouldn't want to come here and grab a haircut and watch the Red Sox?

It makes no difference to me what kind of bat I have. For instance, I often grab the first bat I come across when I go up to the plate. Muggsy McGraw uses a light stick and Jake Stenzel uses a heavy one, but I'm liable to take any one of the miscellaneous lot that falls in my way.

It makes it even worse. It is really a tone-deaf response to the crisis. It is a real grab to get an ideological position across that they haven't been able to achieve under normal circumstances.

It's an impulse buy; you see it in the bin and you grab it.

It's good to be home sometimes, but it's a breath of fresh air to get on the road, play in some different buildings, grab some dinners and hang with the boys.

There'll be a will in the inter-American community to isolate Nicaragua politically and economically if there were this sort of power grab against the elected president of the country by elements of Nicaragua that are behaving very, very irresponsibly, that have put the personal interests of a couple of leaders ahead of the national interest.

There's a value to bearing witness to what hundreds of thousands of people are going through. I see nothing wrong with a reporter going through it with them. I've never pretended to grab onto something. The audience knows when something's real and when it's not.

There's a watch change at two in the morning, ... So seven people who have been on deck for four hours in immense waves and windchill get to go down below. They're covered in sleet. They're bruised. They're exhausted. And they've got four hours before they're due back on deck. They clamber out of their dry suits. They lay out their moldy sleeping bags on the bunks on the high side of the boat, and they get in. They've already used up 30 minutes. After another half hour, the wind shifts, and the guys on deck need to tack the boat. That means the guys down below have to wake up, grab their sleeping bags, walk across the boat, and lay out on the other side. Now they've lost even more sleep.

They really do justice for him. It'll be hard to handle him. You can't touch and grab him anymore. He'll be having a heyday out here.

They're both such great directors. Ridley, of course, is very visual; he brings a world of visual creativity to the work, as well as great emotional truth and sincerity. And Scorsese is just great as the synapses flash in his mind - you just stand there and try to grab them!

I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.

I can't believe I'm saying this but if we get a choice and if it costs us less, I say why not. If we are getting options and it costs less, why not grab it.

I call it push and pester, or grab and clutch, ... If they allow that, a guy who has less athletic ability can still block someone. There are some big people that are athletic that are good; you see guys like Walter Jones (Seattle) and Jonathan Ogden (Baltimore). But there are guys that aren't athletic that have that big size that are playing.

I call it push and pester, or grab and clutch. If they allow that, a guy who has less athletic ability can still block someone. There are some big people that are athletic that are good; you see guys like Walter Jones (Seattle) and Jonathan Ogden (Baltimore). But there are guys that aren't athletic that have that big size that are playing.

How many guys do you know who can physically grab somebody by the ear, and take 'em to jail? Well, he could do it.

I'd grab his hand, and I'd say, 'Let's go, Mike, we've got to play St. Louis tonight -- that was our biggest rival -- and he'd grab my hand tight. But as the visits went on, there was no communication at all.

I came here. There was all kinds of people out back, bringing guns in upstairs. And they said grab 'em, and took 'em upstairs, walked out and there was police.

If I go that route, and I haven't decided, it won't be that I'm angry, it will be that we've got to grab some people's attention,

I don't think there's anything we could have done differently. We had a great look at the basket at the end and it just didn't go, and before that we needed to grab a rebound and just couldn't get to it.

Grab him by the throat, ... and just start strangling him until he gives in and does what he's supposed to do.

Grab your coat, and get your hat, Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet, To the sunny side of the street.

If it is bad news, then they bring that information to one of us. We then grab a mental health professional before we inform the family member.

Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. . . . Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere.

Don't just grab the first thing that comes by. Know what to turn down.

The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run

Think new thoughts. Grab life with both hands, take opportunities you have, & create the ones you need.