Rut Quotations

You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground.

The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third act can be difficult because you can get into a rut in the third act - everybody runs to their Corvette, has a chase, and you catch the bad guy.

We (had) been in a rut for the past 12-13 games. Now we don't have any excuses. Everyone's here. Everyone is available, ... We have all the training time. We have only two more road games. We've got to show that we belong.

One thing you want to get is good swings. It looks like we have gotten a little defensive. I think some guys have lost some confidence. For us to be in a rut this long, it shouldn't happen.

I don't know exactly how it happened. From what I've been told, he caught a rut or something and parts of his knee cap shattered off. His doctor says it's the kind of accident you normally see in a car accident.

I got in a rut and couldn't get out of it. I tried, but it's a case of like being in the opposite of when you are in the zone and can't miss anything to not being able to catch anything.

Last year, she won 15 matches in a row, and fell into a rut this past fall. But she had a great attitude and has been working hard.

I felt like I was in a real rut here and so by doing the Open Fire record I was ready to do another vocal album. It was a logical progression.

We're in the middle of a rut right now, and we're going to have to get ourselves out of it. It's a very competitive conference, and we have to win some.

Hitting is just something that goes in cycles. You have to believe that you're not going to stay in a rut for an extended period of time. Eventually, you need to turn it around. What needs to happen is we need to score runs. It just needs to be a collective effort.

He's a kid who wants to help carry us -- which is commendable -- and of late it hasn't happened. It's like we say about hitters who want to go out there and do too much. The same is true of pitchers, and Jeremy, unfortunately, still falls into that rut of -- instead of being a pitcher -- reverts sometimes to being a thrower.

Look at the divorce rate. In fact, it's women over 40 who are driving the divorce rate. That's the only place where the divorce rate is going up. What I hear from our readers is that women, until their 40s, are with men who are about their age, and they're really on the trajectory of feeling ever more confident and more adventurous, and the guys become more and more in that rut you were talking about. Somebody said to me once: Find a guy in a rut, and he'll lie down in it.

Part of a rut is a routine, and a routine is not a negative; it can be positive and be comforting.

It felt like I stepped in a hole. I tried to step up and chip the puck out of our zone, and I must have caught a rut in the ice. The ankle just rolled over and buckled.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

Unfortunately, we got back into the rut of turning the ball over and not shooting the ball well. It was pretty much unbelievable.

We know it's still early, but you don't want to fall as far behind and get in that rut where you have to battle back. You don't want to find yourself coming to the ballpark, giving away a win and then the next day, you get beat. Before you know it, it turns into something bad.

We just didn't get started. They got in a rut and never got out. We got down on ourselves.

I was really happy to see Garth get through. He lost a couple tough ones, but dug himself out of the rut and got himself back to Hershey.

We've been in a rut lately, and we decided to break the mold. We went into a full-court man-to-man defense all game to try something different. We changed up our substitution pattern and tried to run instead of rely on size. Our guys responded well.

We've been in a rut the last few weeks, but every once in a while we have a game where we don't make mistakes and guys get the hits. It felt like it did in the first half.

We'll take the good with the bad and move on. I think we were trying to play it too safe, trying to do too many things right and not just having fun and playing the game. We got in that rut and took that nosedive again. We've got to get over that.

We kind of fell in a rut with the penalties. They were what I called 'lazy penalties' where we don't want to go out and work hard.

We have to get out of this rut of letting teams hang around and get back in the game. It's almost like we're playing from behind when we have the lead. We just have to finish out games better.

We started off the season slow. We were kind of in a rut for a while. I told the players we needed to come out of the winter break with a winning record. We've turned the corner and we're on the plus side going into the second half of the season, which is positive.

Every day, I'm thinking of ways to implement this system. That means I can't get in the rut of doing everything fast.

Probably. When we got together and started throwing around the ideas, I just started bringing out some old riffs I used to play. 'Guarded' and 'Decadence' are pretty much straight-up, aggressive tracks on the album. Those were the first two ideas I had come up with. That set the tone right off the bat of it being a little bit more aggressive at times. Out of 19 songs that we tracked 14 going on the album that's a lot of material. We try to give every song its own identity. We don't want to fall in the rut of being a repetitious-sounding band. We don't want every song to sound like 'Down with the Sickness' or 'Prayer' . It's got to be a creative mood. It's got to be its own thing.

This film is a movie about people who have secrets. People who are stuck in a rut ... their lives need to be shook up.

You see some individual companies reporting disasters while others are beating street expectations. So that's positive. That shows that the rut in that particular group is probably coming to an end.

I knew it was going to happen because I know his talent level and I know what he's capable of. But when he was in rut he was in, I didn't know if he was going to work his way out of it.

I'm not seeing a certain drive by some players, the drive to win duels and grab loose balls. The only way we're going to get out of this rut is to work like dogs.

Homer, I dont want to leave Springfield. Ive dug myself into a happy little rut here and Im not about to hoist myself out of it

He's positive. You might be going through a little rut in the field and he just finds a way to make you feel like you're good and you belong. He's great for young infielders because he understands how hard it is.

I don't know if we're running out of gas. I can't explain it, ... It's just one of those things where we're kind of in a rut right now. Our starters had a rough couple weeks, and I feel like our starters are really starting to come back and pitch well again. The hitters are having a little rough week now, too.

They came in a rut and we should have kept them in that rut. We should have taken their hearts right there. We didn't do that. We let them get a good feeling like they could win . . . In this game you let someone get on a roll they can beat you. That's what happened. They deservedly beat us and manhandled us.

It's a marked improvement over last year. We just find ourselves in a little bit of a rut right now. We're getting to that fourth quarter and we're just not getting it done.

The bounces that had been going our way aren't right now. When that happens, you usually just have to simplify things and go to the net. A lot of times you'll get out of a rut with an ugly goal or one that bounces in off someone else.

The elk rut is one of the most spectacular wildlife opportunities in the Rocky Mountains.

It's not like we're incapable of winning. We're just in a rut right now. It's a big rut, though.

It's easier to snap out of a bad rut now, ... because guys have the confidence and the ability, knowing they can go out and make a play. I think this is a veteran team. It's got a lot more mature players on every end, and that really helps the team out.

It's easy to fall into a funk and not want to exercise, or to really want that second piece of chocolate cake. I have to say, I fight against those feelings all year. But I try not to let myself sit in a rut like that.

It's good for me, ... You get in a rut playing with the same guys. It's fun to get out there with guys who appreciate it. After 40 years, practice rounds can be a bore. I get out with these guys, and they're cracking jokes.

I called about the last five or six games of the season. It goes back and forth. If you are stuck in a rut and somebody is seeing something you don't see, usually there is a give-and-take of information.