Quotes about jarvis (16 Quotes)


    He has a difficult task on his hands as far as carrying a team but not just carrying it by scoring, ... It's night in, night out making the next guy better, making the guy who is supposedly average, making him better than average. Gilbert can score. The next task will be getting Brendan Haywood, Jarvis Hayes, even Jamison, easy shots. Make the game come easy to those guys and make them step the level of their games up. I feel that's the next step for him.

    The Patriots were not shy about abandoning their 3-4 defensive front once it was obvious that Raiders were having their way early on in the first half. Props to defensive coordinator Eric Mangini, too. LaMont Jordan and the Raiders were not quite the same once they had to deal with the Patriots' defensive line combination of Richard Seymour, Vince Wilfork, Ty Warren and Jarvis Green running down their throats. The four were able to create pressure, cause a key turnover (interception by Wilfork) and get a few negative plays at critical points. Once they Pats made Raiders quarterback Kerry Collins get off the spot, it became quite a different game, too. We were able to set the edge, ... Once we did that, it seemed to go a lot better.

    He's capable of playing huge all the time. He's kind of taken a beat seat to Jarvis this season, but we need him to step up for us right now. Everybody has to come into their own and give us what we expect.


    We had to get the quarterback off his spot. Once I saw Jarvis make a few inside moves, the ball popped out as he tried to throw it, and it was right over one of his offensive linemen's shoulder pads, so I had to reach over his shoulder pads and get it.


    Jarvis is a big part of our team and it is unfortunate that this injury hasn't healed properly. After reviewing Jarvis' progress, it was decided that the best course of action was to have the injury surgically repaired. We expect Jarvis to make a full recovery.


    We are very excited that Jarvis is coming to Southern Miss. Jarvis gives us something that we have lacked in that he is a player who can score from a lot of different places on the court.

    If Coach needed me to come off the bench to be successful, I was going to do that. Obviously we went through a stretch in which we didn't win games, and with the injury to Jarvis Hayes, he told me I had the opportunity to start. He asked me how I felt about it, and I said, 'If the team's going to be better with me starting, I'll all for it.' And we've been good. We're 3-1.

    Although Palm Beach's wealthiest residents may not even notice property tax hikes from one year to the next, there are thousands of middle-income working families who will, ... And as California's ruling elite discovered when the late Howard Jarvis began his campaign to pass Proposition 13, it would be a mistake to ignore them.

    Everybody knows about Perkins. We talked about Porter. He probably has one of the quickest first steps behind Jarvis Williams in 3A basketball. They brought it to us in the second half.


    We kind of call Jarvis our miracle baby because in the spring we didn't have him. And then he came on for us and has done a great job as a pass rusher. He's played through the injuries and really come on for us. He has a chance to be really good, a special player.


    We have the talent with Ty Warren , Jarvis Green, Big Wilfork and it's just a matter of going out and doing the job every day. It puts more beef on the field and we can move in and out with our versatility. We all feel like we're every down players and want to be on the field, but we don't care if its 3-4 or 4-3 as long as we're winning football games.

    Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across the Niagara River on a rope, would you shake the cable, or keep shouting out to him - 'Blondin, stand up a little straighter - Blondin, stoop a little more - go a little faster - lean a little more to the north - lean a little more to the south' No, you would hold your breath as well as your tongue, and keep your hands off until he was safe over. The Government are carrying an immense weight. Untold treasures are in their hands. They are doing the very best they can. Don't badger them. Keep silence, and we'll get you safe across. -Francis B. Carpenter, 'Anecdotes and Reminiscences of President Lincoln' in Henry Jarvis Raymond, The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln..., p. 752 (1865). Carpenter, a portrait artist, lived in the White House for six months beginning February 1864, to paint the president and the entire Cabinet. His relations with the president became of an 'intimate character,' and he was permitted 'the freedom of his private office at almost all hours,...privileged to see and know more of his daily life' than most people. He states that he 'endeavored to embrace only those anecdotes which bear the marks of authenticity. Many.... I myself heard the President relate others were communicated to me by persons who either heard or took part in them' (p. 725). Blondin (real name Jean Francois Gravelet) was a French tightrope walker who crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope in 1855, 1859, and 1860



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