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You've got to give them credit. They buried their chances. They're a pretty good team.

When he was drafted by Chicago, he was trapped behind some awfully good players and just never really got a chance. I think he appreciates the opportunity to get another chance.

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

The last time I had a run like this was probably my senior year in high school. We've lost so many close games this year that we just needed to give ourselves a chance.

What's been done in the past I really have no control over. Frankly, I like the fact that we have kind of a blank canvas with some young talent, some very good draft picks and a chance to really build.

It was a tough trip at the beginning. But I hit him a couple of times, and then it was easy. I've been galloping him a few times, and Mr. Draper gave me a chance.

Give me an opportunity. Thats all I ask for. Just give me a chance to make the team.

They were wonderful about it, and it gave us a chance to go back and study some of the security costs that had been incurred post 911.

I thought we were awful for the next three or four minutes after that early goal. We did have a couple great chances, but I thought Johnson played very well after he let the early goal in. But I thought that's when we were our sloppiest, after that goal. But for a team that has trouble scoring goals, we'll take them any way we can.

Politics had nothing to do with it. We tried our best to have them in Beijing, but it simply wasn't possible given the chance of disease.

Fans made me. The fans gave me a chance, and they made me. Beyond that, my career has been trials and tribulations and ups and downs, so I have to have true fans riding with me.

It's a chance to come out and show community spirit.

We had some really nice chances, some from way out. I knew if we got up two goals we wouldn't let the lead go. But as long as it was one goal, sometime West Carteret would go on the attack with confidence.

In this campaign we had two goals a strong election for Labor and a chance to form a majority government. The one goal has been reached, the other is within reach.

We put a lot of focus on not allowing scoring chances, but (also) spend a lot of time trying to use everybody offensively. Both our teams were very, very good offensively in junior. To win, you have to play defense, just like in basketball, football and baseball. But we would like to win 6-0, not 6-5.

Most people would have said if Justin Williams doesn't play today, we don't even have a chance.

We knew if we were going to have a chance against Michigan we were going to have to get some clutch hits. We showed a lot of patience at the plate in the seventh inning and Lindsey Cameron came through with that clutch hit.

They played us very tough. And Luongo is a good goalie. He gives them a chance every night.

I don't think they had as many chances, but they capitalized on the ones they had. Hats off to them on that. That is the game of hockey sometimes.

We don't want to negotiate. The president had the chance to give a clear answer, which he didn't do.

Kentucky is going to be a Kentucky team. Coach Tubby Smith always has those guys ready to play basketball -- their defensive intensity, their team cohesiveness -- that's a mainstay. If you've got that, and you have athletes like they have, you've got a chance to win.

I still think everybody in the division has a chance to win it, with maybe Colorado the exception because they're looking to rebuild. The Dodgers are hanging around, the Diamondbacks are a good team and I'm so used to the Giants winning 90 or more games I can't picture them ever being out of it. I fully expect the race to come down to the last month.

You hear about all the great quarterbacks who have come out of Western Pennsylvania. That's always been in the back of my mind. One day I hope to be mentioned with all of those guys. But right now I'm just looking for my opportunity, working for my chance.

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.

Any of the four teams has a chance to win it all. I don't think Mountain View's guards get enough credit. You have to slow them down.

I thought we had some chances early to get him out of his rhythm. That's the thing about these pitchers that don't throw hard -- you have to get them out of their rhythm, and we didn't.

The World Cup is a chance for our country that we cannot let pass. We want to offer more than a first-class football tournament, and also promote out country far beyond the stadiums.

That from the heart come good thoughts and bad thoughts is the message of the Savior. By the right choice, and through application of thought, man ascends to divine perfection by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beasts. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character and man in their maker and master. Jesus taught that from within the heart of man come evil thoughts, sexual vice, acts of theft, murder, adultery, greed. When men commit these crimes individually or collectively, they trespass upon human rights and, of course, bring misery into the world. A noble and godlike character is no thing of favor or chance, but is a natural result of continued effort and right thinking, the effect of long cherished associations with godlike thoughts.

Like the NFL scouts, college coaches' careers are made and broken on identifying talent and developing it. If you miss on a player's ability and use a scholarship on him, chances are your going to be looking for a new job. God forbid, you don't know about a kid and a rival school does, signs him and he pans out for them. That will put you on the unemployment line fast.

The wing spot on the fruit fly is a particularly good model because we know it constitutes a new feature that is gained or lost by evolution in different species. And, since it is a spatial pattern, it gives us a chance to analyze the evolution of a physical trait.

Clearly, he didn't say anything embarrassing or controversial or stupid that would have harmed his chances. And I think the losers in the week have to be these Senate Judiciary Committee members who had this precious time and instead used their time to make political speeches that, really, very few people listened to.

The table could not have been set any better for us. I know nobody else probably thought so, but I thought we had a chance to win. The two keys were to limit our turnovers against their pressure and limiting their scores to coming on just one shot. We didn't get it done in either case.

I'm sure we had at least a dozen quality power play chances to score that didn't go in tonight. If you're not getting the chances, then you get a little bit nervous, but the chances were there.

Tiger has been working on his game, and he certainly seemed to find it at St. Andrews. Tiger looked in total control he never looked like there was a chance for him to lose. It was a pretty awesome performance.

We couldn't quite make enough plays to shift the momentum. We almost had a chance that one time when they fumbled. Philip Daniels was running for it. Carlos almost had one. It was just a play here and a play there, who knows

I think this is a more optimistic assessment of the chances for keeping climate change moderate in the next 50 years, and the way to do that is to focus on stopping the growth of several gases, ... Global Warming in the 21st Century An Alternative Scenario.

In the past people only had the chance to license their content to networks. Now that's not the case.

We think that there is still some chance of it strengthening into a Category 1 hurricane by the time it makes landfall tomorrow morning,

I never thought I'd fail, ... The idea is that you just work harder. But in this business, there's always a chance something goes wrong.

Provided he skates up to his potential and doesn't get sick or anything like that, I think he's got a fairly good chance. My biggest concern is that he will get distracted by it all. Physically, no one can beat him at 1,500, 5,000 or 10,000. He's just got to be really focused on what's going on and not get all wrapped up in the potential distractions.

Our athletics department has been real good in terms of being able to get us into or to hold events in which we can compete against some of the better teams. It gives the kids a chance to get a real good look at what's out there, the kind of times and the kind of dives other people are doing.

It's like it was back in the early '90s when we were coming to camp with a chance to win a championship every year.

I thought we were dominating from the first shift. Even when the score was tied after the first period, we were in their zone and we had a lot of scoring chances.

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

We played extremely well. Anything under 300 is really good golf. I thought we might have a chance at doing it.

I said this morning that in this business, you have to reward the players that are playing well, and Michael Garnett is definitely giving us a chance to win. It's pretty easy to say his confidence is growing, and our confidence in him is growing also.

Our kids got a chance to relax, and we needed this type of game. This allows us to go into the California game on a positive note.

They played smarter. They didn't have near the number of careless penalties that we've had most of the year. That certainly gave us a good chance.

Sean was a little snake-bit in the regular season. He had a lot of chances, but he only had four or five goals.

The thing about real life is that important events dont announce themselves. Trumpets dont blow, drums dont beat to let you know you are going to meet the most important person youve ever met, or read the most important thing you are ever going to read, or have the most important conversation you are ever going to have, or spend the most important week you are ever going to spend. Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it. You dont usually have a chance to get excited about that sort of thingahead of time.