Plugging Quotations

Everybody has a different journey. Everybody has a different path, and you don't really know what to expect. All you know is to just keep plugging away, and you hope something will come through and something will happen.

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

I was at home when he was plugging 14-, 16-hour days, when he really didn't want to be there. He couldn't watch me play baseball, ... I see the work he put into turning them around. He's made a couple key moves that have made me very proud.

Making the tournament has certainly been our focus. We have a tough road to get there, but it's our focus and goal and we're going to keep plugging towards it.

(Moore) has an unbelievably tough job because he's an inside linebacker, so he's in on almost every play, and he's played a lot at fullback so he's taken a beating there. He's been quietly plugging away, but he's also a difference-maker. He's made big plays every game on both sides of the ball. He's extremely fast, and just a great football player.

I didn't get off to a great start. I had just one birdie, on the fourth, but kept plugging away, making pars. Then I got it going on the back nine with those birdies,

Mentally, we just keep plugging away and hope we get over the hump.

Mentally, we just keep plugging away and hope we get over the hump. We believe in each other and we believe that the next time out, we're going to get a win.

Many kids who are using this type of technology are plugging virtual rock concerts into their ears. Parents, grandparents and all other significant adults in our children's lives need to be aware of the risk and make sure the children are, too.

kept plugging away, waiting for the birdies to come.

There are still concerns at both the top and the bottom. The goal would be to get a tighter range that would ensure that even more than 20 clubs at Labor Day still have a chance to compete for playoff spots, that playoff spots are based on skill and talent and blossoming stars and not just on plugging holes with economics.

I did not expect this kind of play from us. This is an interesting bunch of guys, and they will continue to be. We've just got to keep plugging along.

I had a tremendous interest and I just kept plugging away and knocking at doors, you know, seeking out encouragement where I could get it.

To fight three times in three years is crazy. It has been disappointing to the point of sometimes you get frustrated and really just want to retire. I have been to that point, but God is faithful and I just keep plugging along. I just have to remain patient and fights will happen, but it has been disappointing.

What you learn after you're 40 is it's just about plugging up holes in the boat,

We told them at halftime to keep plugging away. Our second quarter was just awful. I saw a couple pouts out there and I told them to turn those frowns into smiles and pick it up and play basketball like we know how to play it.

We've got to keep plugging away. We've got Dallas next. We've got a chance. If things go our way, we still have a chance for the playoffs.

He shot the ball well. It's like plugging a dam, you just don't know where to put your finger.

That 60 feet and 6 inches, it can keep us in the game when we throw well, and when we don't we won't fare so well. We did not swing the bats bad from being off a week. We swung a lot better in the second game. We just need to keep plugging away.

Some of the girls were a little frustrated in the first half after dominating play, but it was still 0-0. The best defense is offense. I felt if we kept the pressure up, and kept plugging away, a few would eventually fall in.

Our kids battled back a couple times. They kept plugging away and we had some chances. I thought we executed well, Brookings just made one more play than we did.

My workouts are coming along, but I'm not there. It's frustrating. I've got to keep plugging away.

Our goal is to get through the first half and hopefully stay in the playoff picture. The kids have to keep working and plugging away. We have the talent to be a playoff team, but haven't been able to use a set lineup.

I think we've gotten a lot better but we need to keep plugging away. Every single one of our guys needs to get better on the bottom. We've just got to work at that and build more confidence doing it.

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

It didn't look good, but you've got to keep plugging away, and I felt our guys would do that.

We never thought we were going to lose this game. We kept chipping away, chipping away, plugging away. We showed them tonight what we could do. Hopefully we showed our critics.

Well, nobody has ripped my jersey off of my back yet. Until they demand it back from me, I'm not giving it back. I'm just going to keep trying. That's all I know. That's all I've known since I was little. Keep working hard and plugging away until all 30 teams say they don't want you.

We have to just keep plugging away. No matter what people have been saying about us, about what we've done on third downs or whatever, we know it's going to start clicking at the right time.

We have to keep plugging along and try to improve our club. I like our nine players on the field a whole bunch. The areas we have to shore up are the front end of our rotation and the back end of the bullpen. Those are the areas we're concentrating on. We're certainly working at it.

We have to keep plugging away. We're playing a lot of young guys, and they'll be pretty good down the line.

We have a management team that we believe can bring Livingston success. It was always going to be a case of keeping plugging away. The football side of it is very much with Paul. It's simply going to take time. There is no doubt about our faith in Paul and Norrie McWhirter.

The ability to download a song without plugging into your computer is a great benefit and there's a premium to pay for that.

We just couldn't get our offensive line going. They had some big guys out there. They (Bloomer) were doing a good job of plugging that off-tackle stuff.

We didn't even look as though we were that hungry to finish them. You can't create that many chances in a game and not score. We have done well to create chances but the finishing was shocking. That's two weeks in a row, it's coast us five points in two games. Obviously we just have to keep plugging away.

We got off to a good start in the second half and then hit a lull. We got in some foul trouble and got out of sync with the lineup we had in there. But defensively, our kids kept plugging away. The longer it went, the better we got defensively. Gravette was pretty much one shot and out late in the game and we took advantage.

We had trouble during that first quarter. We had some decent shots that we didn't make. That has been our problem all year we have a quarter somewhere in the game that always hurts us. But the kids didn't quit, showing a lot of character on their part, and they kept plugging away at it.

That was my biggest concern. It's tough for our guys to bounce back, you know, it's that 'here we go again.' But we kept fighting and kept plugging away.

We've stayed with it pretty much through the whole trip, we've been consistent. We've worked hard, we came here with the attitude we wanted to keep plugging away. They got our number tonight. Give them credit, too. They play tight defense, they've been known for that for 15 years.

We're playing hard out there, and that is the thing you have to do when things aren't going your way. There are just some things that we have a deficiency in, and all we can do is keep plugging away and getting better in those areas.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I was straight out of grad school, and I didn't have a single credit to my name. I knew one person in town - another actor whose name is John Billingsley. I just had to audition and audition and audition. I was plugging away for 15 years. So I earned my stripes!

We're not talking about amnesty or allowing foreigners to take advantage of our welfare system. We're talking about plugging the holes in our borders, and at the same time protecting U.S. farmers and consumers. In fact, we don't think you can succeed at one without the other.

What it came down to is that we executed early. We were hitting the ball well but right at them. We could have had more runs, but we kept plugging away.

We righted the ship and then Smith pulls his stunt and leaves us. We've just got to keep plugging away.

We keep plugging away. We work a lot of reception and getting more out of our serve. We have to compensate for being smaller at the net. We're working on our timing.

To be successful in this league, you have to run the ball and for whatever reason we haven't been able to. I can't tell you why. It's like the passing game. Sometimes you feel in a groove, like the other day, and it just happens. You can't want it to happen, you have to make it happen and keep plugging and be persistent. We just haven't been able to do that.

We've got five wins now and hopefully we keep plugging away and get a few more. The key is just to get to the (playoffs) and see what can happen.

We actually got after it better. We played harder. It's a tribute to the kids. They've kept plugging away. It was important for them to see some results come out of the work.

We're mentally tough and we were not going to go away. We got down 10 and could have easily folded the tent on the big stage. The kids just kept fighting and plugging away and got us back into that thing. They put us in a great position at halftime.

We found out we're not quitters. We've shown we are a team that's going to keep fighting and keep plugging to the end.

We're fortunate to get out of this game. It's a credit to the leadership of our guys, to not get rattled. We kept plugging away.

We started out pretty aggressive, then we just didn't attack enough. Central made some adjustments and started plugging the inside. We got some outside shots (3-for-14 on three-pointers), but they weren't falling. You can't fault our effort.

We stuck to our plan and it worked. We just had to keep plugging and plugging, and we got into a little groove in the second half.

We knew what to expect from those guys. We just wanted to keep our heads in the match and keep plugging away, not letting their styles rattle us. It shows Grant and Quentin are true champions, when the other guys doesn't come at them like they want him to and they stay within the match.

I stayed around. I just kept working on my game, kept plugging away. That's all you can do, that and hope they'll get back to you. Today, they got back to me.

The good thing about Mehdi is that he keeps working and tries. He keeps plugging along and he keeps playing. That's a positive for him. He'll make a mistake, but he'll learn from it and keep going.

The team has played so well defensively. Even though we're nicked up, (the defense) just keeps plugging away and doing its job.

The state should be an ally with mineral producers rather than an adversary. Mineral producers have 14 different agencies that we have to fight with. We're plugging an average of four oil wells a day in Wyoming. Oil production is dropping. There's plenty of oil in the state, but no incentive to drill.

The players did it; they just willed themselves to some things. They played with an amazing amount of energy. We've come from behind a lot, and we just kept plugging away.

When you have guys like Sidney Rice to throw to, it doesn't take a whole lot. Those guys just made plays, ... The offensive line protected me well most of the night. We were having trouble hearing but we kept plugging away and plugging away.

We've just got to establish it, keep plugging at it. Even though we haven't got 100 yards yet, we're showing some signs. We know we're not getting the big numbers yet, but we've got to keep plugging out there.

We've just got to keep plugging away. The effort's been there. I can't complain about how hard we're working. We just haven't had too many rewards for our effort so far.

We've just got to keep plugging away. We're trying to be too fancy at times, passing up some shots that we should be taking.

The schedule doesn't get any easier. We'll keep plugging away. We are a good team.

It was tough, especially the 5-on-3. You've got to score in playoff games. We kept talking about plugging away.

We should do OK. We need to stick to what we know, keep plugging and see what happens.

The reason I'm in the position I'm in right now is because of bad luck on the part of Doug Henry, ... Before his crash there's no question that Henry was the rider to beat. When he went out for the season it turned the whole series upside down. I had a really good weekend at Copper Mountain and came out of there with a solid lead. Now I've just got to keep plugging away in these last two races and hope everything goes OK. If I'm in a position to win the last race I think I'll go for it just like I did last year in Las Vegas.

We've had this stretch before, and we've bounced right back. The difference is, there's a lot more riding right now. We've just got to dig deep, keep plugging along and see what happens.

To be honest with you, I didn't see it coming back then. I'd be lying if I said I did. But you just keep plugging away. You just keep working hard, and good things happen.

On this album, we took the opportunity to show people that hey, we like to make real music. We're not just plugging in our guitars and singing the catchiest melody to sell records.

Offensively, we couldn't get going. We took two more 3-pointers than 2-pointers in the first half. They did a good job of plugging up the middle. But when you hold a team to 19 points, you can afford a poor shooting night.

No one was going to quit. We kept plugging away.

We wanted to get off to a good start, come out with some good energy and fire. We did that and they got behind, and we just wanted to keep plugging away.

Probably the biggest hit he's had all year. These guys kept plugging and Gautreau really put life into us.

Right now, we're just plugging away, but we've got to start finding somebody who can get us to the end zone quickly. And when something negative happens, we seem to have trouble with adversity. It's a lack of confidence right now.

This was a heck of a comeback from that kind of deficit against a team that controls the game. You just can't give anybody that kind of lead and expect to come back, but we just keep plugging away and as long as we get Gerry some looks he's going to make his share.

I know that not all of them will come to fruition, but we are working hard to bring as many as possible. We're at various stages of interest right now and we'll just see what happens. We all want to be positive and keep plugging away.

I'm talking about a voice in the locker room when coaches aren't present, a voice at their apartments where they live, that type of thing. He tells them not to get excited or too low. Keep plugging away and things will happen. He has a confidence in others to help them improve their game.

I like raconteurs; I like conversation. I liked the 'Tonight Show' when it was 90 minutes, I like when people aren't plugging things per se, and they're just in the moment being interesting.

Slowly. Early on he was a little frustrated because the defense forgot to do a couple of things. But as the game went on, you could tell he was maturing in that aspect. He knew if he kept plugging away the defense would eventually pick him up.

I'm going to keep plugging away. I've said from the start that whatever happens happens as long as I continue to get better. That's what's frustrating (Saturday night) because I didn't get better. I didn't make strides where I wanted to. Obviously I didn't make a strong case for being No. 2 tonight.

I'm really proud of Nick because he just wrestled the tournament of his life. Last year, he was this pudgy kid who never could crack the lineup. We saw flashes of greatness from him during the regular season and now he just keeps plugging away in the tournaments.

Dominic has had some big hits here before. He is one of those guys that keeps plugging away. He comes down here every single day with the same plan and he is just eager to start hitting the ball again. He is a good player and you know that he is not going to be down for long.

The offense kept plugging away and giving us opportunities. Then we let them score another touchdown. At the end of the game, we did what we had to do, but you don't want to let a team like that stick around. You have to put a team like that away early.

It's playing more like a U.S. Open than a Masters. Lately, the Masters has played soft and wet, with balls plugging in the fairways and picking up mud. That wasn't the case. It was quick and dry, and the greens are picking up speed.

They did a nice job of plugging up the middle when we got down in the final third (of the field),

I just kept plugging away and hit some very good shots,

But his glass is always half-full, ... He just keeps plugging along.

By hanging in there and plugging in there and doing real close to his personal best, he got us points. He doesn't have to apologize after it's over.

They kept us from winning the game. That's something I see all of the time. You've just got to keep plugging away against these dudes here. Somehow or another, they find a way to get it done.

It just seems like what we are good at - we keep getting better, and what we are struggling at - we are still struggling. But overall we are getting better and we are plugging along.

It was midday Tuesday that I became aware of the fact that there was no possibility of plugging the gap and that essentially the lake was going to start to drain into the city. I think that second catastrophe really caught everybody by surprise,

It was a great test for us and we came through. It wasn't our night but we just found a way to win. We kept plugging and the shots fell and we believed in what we were doing.

The bullpen could happen. I'll do whatever they ask of me. I'll keep plugging along. I'm fighting it, but we'll work something out.

The heck with the preliminaries, I want to win the main nights, ... We've been pretty good all the time. We keep plugging away in the top two or three in every show so that helps a lot.

The guys were kind of down after their big inning. But we just kept plugging away, and eventually things happened for us.

The conditions again were very tough today. The winds were swirling and it was cold, but our players never gave up. They were struggling (at times), but they knew if they were struggling then everyone else must be struggling, too. They were able to settle down and keep plugging away one shot at a time.

Andrew Jenkins was the big one. He was down by a lot. But he stuck with it, kept plugging away, played that small ball all the way till the last minute and then put himself back in position to win.