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Naturally most sportsmen who can make the transition have a fire in the belly. It's much like being a financial gladiator -- or an athletic gladiator.

Right in the middle of the game I thought we were in trouble and I just told them 24 minutes they have to pull it together and a team and they did. We held them to two goals in the second half. Our transition game was awesome, we took away the two guys that score 70 percent of their goals.

Right now I'm the one asking the questions. In my heart, I still wanted to play, but the opportunity wasn't there. I was moving on in the transition of life after football. But this opportunity came up and I'm here to try and contribute.

I'd love to be able to transition what I do into screenplays that ultimately wind up on the silver screen, television series, and like film projects.

I didn't want to get into a transition game because they've been over 100 five times, but what I found out during the first half was that their big guys were sucking wind. We were able to take advantage of that and give us a little cushion, and I was surprised because I knew they wanted to play in the 90s if they could.

I didn't want my child to have to make that transition to a new 'big, scary school' before he had to. Kids at that age have to deal with enough difficult transitions. . . . I feel the less they have the more secure they feel.

If this market transition truly evolves the way that I think it's most likely to, the worst decision you could make is not to move.

I don't know that this sets a precedent. Sometimes, a player transcends the position of a transition tag by being an exceptional player.

Let's continue to impress customers and partners with our innovation, and drive satisfaction to levels we've never achieved before. Let's also stay focused on our priorities as we make this transition and align our organization for the future.

Lee's set of experiences as a former professional player, scout, and coach has allowed him to make a successful transition to a manager. His knowledge of the game, first hand experiences, and ability to communicate enable him to be an effective leader of young developing players.

The plan is to transition to the Intel processor by the end of this calendar year from today's IBM G5 2.3 GHz processor PowerPC processor. It's the best way to improve performance.

When this team executes, they are fun to watch. You have to dictate tempo against them. When they take the ball out of the net it makes it a lot easier to get back into our transition defense.

When you change your offense, there will be a transition period and you'll have some rough spots. I was fairly impressed, for asking them to make a change in two weeks. It was a great job.

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

Much has changed in the world and much has changed in technology. But some things do not change. Today we still celebrate the transition from a vision to a physical shape.

Since I have already faced all of these hardships, and I remember how hard the transition was for me, I wanted to help other Sudanese avoid facing the same challenges.

Sitcoms are like summer stock. You put it up in three days, and then you do it in front of an audience, so it's a really great transition from theatre into camera work.

Sixty-five is OK, but we have states in this region - West Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia - that have a 70 mph speed limit. There's no reason we can't transition (to that).

Mississippi Rising is going to be a tremendous boost not just in providing desperately needed funds for our recovery effort, but also in bringing national attention to our efforts as we transition from emergency relief to rebuilding Mississippi stronger, bigger and better.

Mike is a speedster. He has an aggressive dodging style and attitude on the lacrosse field and will help our transition game immediately.

Moving Joe down low should allow for some of our younger players to develop quicker. He is great off the ground and in transition and adjusted well this fall to the close position.

She's a flat-out athlete. She's one of the quickest players on the team. To get her out in transition ahead of the other post players is a huge advantage for us.

She came in with a lot of expectations for her to do well. When you're a highly touted blue-chip recruit like she was, sometimes that pressure can weigh on a freshman. But she's just very confident in her abilities, and has a wonderful work ethic that has made the transition into being an integral part of the offense go very smoothly.

She got the ball in the open court on transition stuff and they were pressuring up on other people, I think it opened the court up for her.

When your defense falls, sometimes your offense can be part of the problem. We were taking some questionable shots that were leading to easy transition baskets on their end.

Making a transition to the adult acting industry was pretty smooth for me, and I had a great balance and a great opportunity not to do just children shows.

Making that transition from paycheck to no paycheck scares a lot of people.

Short of a significant decline in oil prices, we do not foresee a likely catalyst that would spur the market significantly higher at this time. The equity market will likely remain in a transition phase, which could see the strong equity market uptrend of 2003 evolve into a slight downtrend in early 2005.

should be a period of significant transition to full Iraqi sovereignty.

She's made a solid transition into this fall and was really impressive. She had a lot of opportunities to play in the fall, rotate in and really came through. She's earned herself a position and even if she doesn't get in every game, she's become one of our most improved players. Mechanically she's doing such great things, it makes us stronger - just to be so physical and be able to execute.

She's really been able to come in and provide a huge spark for us defensively and really ignite our transition offense.

We want to make sure we gather as much information as we can in a short period of time, ... Anything that we have to be aware of both medically and educationally will make a transition easier.

The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.

Keys to the game were our pressure defense and our transition offense. We came out really intense and got the game rolling right off the bat.

James has an impressive and extensive background in accounting and finance. His experience as CFO in two other publicly held companies also prepares him to provide the essential financial leadership we will need as we transition from a period of consolidation to a new stage of dynamic growth.

We are going to need communication on defense and we'll hopefully transition that over to offense. New Mexico is a really good team. We played them well at home earlier in the season and the key to this game is to attack them on defense and shut down some of their key players.

Given the difficult operating environment and US Airways transition and Hawaii startup expenses, we are pleased with these results. Focusing on cost, our transition and Hawaii startup expenses of $3.6 million for the quarter were within plan.

Given the difficult transition for other companies that have made the switch (to subscription accounting), we view this with some relief for Oracle stock.

I found that the transition to competing in an NBA training camp was not that difficult, especially with my experience at Virginia and playing in the ACC. Fortunately, I kind of caught lightning in a bottle that year, had a great training camp and made the team.

I feel terrific. I had been cautioned by a lot of people that the transition was going to be extremely difficult. I haven't found it so.

(Friday night) Galesburg made shots, so we weren't able to get it off the rim and transition it. When we can get it off the rim and in transition, we're a much better basketball team.

For some reason, we couldn't stop Horn, especially in their transition game. We couldn't stop the bleeding. It was our worst game on defense when it comes to the transition game.

From our perspective, the transition is going quite smoothly overall.

I feel more comfortable there than anywhere, but it'll be another transition for me learning to play on that level.

I got a long great with the guys at Franklin Pierce, and there were some incredible baseball players on that team, but I didn't think I was going to get an opportunity to play much there. Having Adam already at the school made the transition pretty easy for me.

I enjoy the times I go to the racetrack to see the horses, but yet I don't have to get up at 4:30 every morning of the week. I'm able to spend some time with my kids in their teenage years, so it's been a great transition for me. With the way the horses are running, it's been even better. Things have gone really well, so from that standpoint, everybody's happy. Kenny and Bill are real excited about the future. Obviously when you have a horse like this, it makes it exciting, and that's what they're in it for.

I don't think it will take long. We understand what the game plan is every game going out. The transition more than anything will probably be defensively, because everybody played different defensive schemes, and our scheme is probably one of the toughest schemes in the NBA because we work a lot harder.

For us Japan is a much higher priority. We find there are challenges in China -- the stability of people, intellectual property, uncertain cash flows. They are hard-working people but they don't have democracy. When they have a transition to democracy there are going to be huge challenges.

I don't think we played fantastic. Our transition defense was suspect. We made some bad decisions early in the second half, but then we picked it up. We questioned ourselves, but we have the answers now.

If it was some other coach, I could see the transition being horrible. But since he came from Iowa and was an assistant coach for so long and he knows a lot of the wrestlers, I think that is going to help out a lot.

I felt pretty good coming off of last weekend. The transition coming off grass last week to clay was pretty evident in this match but I thought if I could get through this one I'd be all right.

I have a belief that things happen for a reason. There were a lot of skeptics that said I couldn't make the transition to New York. But I know what kind of person I am. It's just a matter of taking advantage of the opportunity you're presented.

I believe that this is in the best long-term interest of the firm, ... As we transition management at the top, I will now concentrate my energies on successfully completing our initial public offering.

I believe that now is a positive time to make the transition to a new commissioner.

I believe there is a product transition issue going on. I think that it has lost the mindshare of its channel partners and some customers because, from a product improvement perspective, it hasn't introduced new features for its core product in about a year.

CBS is very pleased to have forged this partnership with Mitsubishi that will give American television viewers their first sustained exposure to high-definition television, ... This agreement, which allows us to present the majority of our primetime lineup in the highest definition television format, represents the most significant step any network has taken in HDTV and further establishes CBS' leadership in the transition to digital broadcasting.

Basically we knew we had to rebound. Once we hit the boards, that was a big difference in the game. We kicked it up. We got transition buckets.

Based on past procedure the transition will take 10 days to two weeks.

I feel very badly because we came out in the second half and created the tempo we wanted to create. The effort was tremendous and for most of the third and fourth quarter our defense was outstanding, creating turnovers and getting transition scores.

I feel very good about where we are and so does the rest of the management. We have worked hard through a tough period of transition during these past two fiscal years, while our focus on fundamentals, serving customers and delivering value through integration puts us in great shape this fiscal year and for the future.

Bush has insured a smooth transition with the least amount of disruption to Fed policy, ... That's what the market needed.

Businesses make business decisions for business reasons. Obviously, the new owner has a different vision. We would certainly be willing to do whatever we can to assist in any transition if that's appropriate.

Because we had transition baskets like that, it is kind of why we got sloppy. We were trying to make every play into a transition basket instead of playing solid basketball at certain times.

Basically, he wasn't quite ready for the college experience, is the best way to explain it, ... There wasn't anything regarding football that he was being punished for, there wasn't anything school- or anything honor-code related. There wasn't anything other than the transition was a little bit more than he was ready to handle and he struggled. He just wasn't quite ready. I like him and I want what's best for him and his family. I'll support him any way that I can.

Because of their focused and deep business strategy, concentrating only on transactions, Ameritrade would make an easier transition into a more diversified financial company,

Basketball doesn't get any better than that. Just being able to run up and down the court, getting transition buckets. It doesn't get any better than that.

I have been involved with situations where coaches have left, and there has been a transition of coaching staffs, where I've had abandonment of some team players. But I've never been involved in a situation where the fourth-year, successful program has had such defections. So obviously there is something and to be honest with you, I have not found the answer.

I have a feeling that things are going to slow down, with more of a transition phase this summer and we're going to have a very good fall and winter.

Hayden had a great transition game. That was what we mostly talked about. We needed to use our feet more instead of going for the steal.

Here it was basically a smooth transition, despite the problems that were encountered in a lot of areas, ... Mr. Essic Williams came over as assistant principal and became a big influence on my life. He played a big role in helping the transition to go smoothly.

We feel like he's a valuable member of our team and we put the transition tag on him in an effort to keep him.

Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other!

Gulf Coast teachers who have lost or left their homes due to Katrina's devastation are being forced to make important decisions on how to continue with their lives, ... Here in Florida we have a critical need for qualified teachers and that need increases each day as our state population grows and schools struggle to meet class size requirements. We welcome these evacuated teachers and students alike with open arms and waiving the certification fee is one small effort to make this transition as smooth as possible.

What you're seeing is a bit of a transition to a more neutral market.

We are finally starting to click and run our transition like we knew we could. We are throwing and catching like we do in practice, and we are finally getting settled down in a game situation. Our defense seems to be clicking really nicely.

We talk about transition every day. We really want to push the ball. And our defense dictates that.

With me it was F3000 and Formula One. I don't really see that transition being made very easily now.

We've felt like we haven't been getting transition goals, so that's a big goal for us. We've been working on that for the last two weeks. That's an area we think we can improve on.

We've gone through a transition (changing crew chiefs) ... so it has been successful when you take all the factors we had to put in of rebuilding this organization.

We've got to keep them off the boards. We've can't give them second shots. And we can't give up any transition baskets. If we can do that, we'll be right in the game with them.

We talked at halftime about giving up easy baskets in the first half. I think half their points were on transition off from our misses and turnovers. We got about five or six stops out of seven of their possessions. I think the first four or five minutes of the third quarter we played great defense.

I already knew everyone that went here from growing up. At first, I was wondering how the other players would accept me but they welcomed me with open arms. After the first game, I started to produce and help the team out. It was a pretty easy transition from then on.

HP customers benefit because the roadmap simplifies their transition from point asset management and service desk products to an integrated management platform.

We made mistakes in transition and weren't getting back, which made it look easy for them.

He wasn't going to be satisfied being on a one-year transition tender. Obviously, Minnesota made a very strong offer for him.

We make our money in a short period time. I'm trying to make my transition as smooth and stress-free as possible.

We match up pretty well defensively against them. If we can shut down their transition game, which they've always been good at, and get them six-on-six then we should be fine.

We may just open our own transition office.

I actually think it's what he represents they don't want to see depicted, because in that square one Nelson signifies the birth of the British empire and 100 years of global dominance, ... Nelson Mandela would signify the peaceful transition to a multiracial and multicultural world, and I would be proud to have that in London.

He could be so descriptive on the radio, and I think he was the best I ever heard at making the transition from radio to television. He made words go a long way on TV.

He was so creative with the ball, he was terrific in transition with the ball, but more than anything, he really led a group of all-stars at an all-star camp and was all about winning. That's what we loved about him.

He was glad to make the transition to receiver, and his work ethic just exploded. He runs routes real well, and he catches the ball with his hands. That sounds like a simple thing, but that's not always done. And he's just a heck of an athlete.

We look forward to working with Donald L. Sturm and the Sturm group to insure there is a smooth transition of ownership.

We have to acknowledge that individuals can face transition costs when trade barriers come down,

If the U.N. intends to softly encourage the transition to IPv6 via policy -- or merely wishes to coordinate or 'track' the deployment of IPv6 over time -- the impact will likely be minimal, ... But if they are going to take a stronger approach -- which they could theoretically do with the new authority -- the impact would once again be tremendous.

If we weren't scoring in transition we were having a heck of a time scoring. And if we didn't defend in our trap we had a heck of a time defending.

If the Fed believes there are inflationary concerns about the strength of the economy, they will act. They will continue to do what they need to do to slow the economy down. It's going to be a transition market and there's no need to be aggressive here. Use a little caution and let prices come to you.

He did a good job running the offense. Howard had a few transition baskets in the run (to erase the 16-point deficit).

He was a pivotal figure in the transition of this county from a bedroom community to an economic center in its own right.