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While I was in jail, I was so mad at myself and so frustrated about my situation and how I let myself get in that predicament. I just promised myself I was never going to go down that road again no matter what my situation was.

We need to call out some of these contractors that have been abusive, ... People are very frustrated throughout the country by story after story of contractors taking advantage of the American taxpayer.

We had some scoring opportunities, but got frustrated when the shots wouldn't fall. Considering we had been off for spring break, we didn't play too badly. We had some great runs, but missed the shot.

We are excited to walk away with two quality wins after facing two solid programs. We've changed some of our formations this spring, which has frustrated some of our players who are learning the new system. These two wins give our players confidence in themselves and their ability to succeed in this system.

We are emotional players, there were a lot of hard words said. We were very disappointed and it's normal that this happens in the locker room, and not because we hate each other; only we were just frustrated with what happened and we knew that we were going to be torn apart by the newspapers and by the people in the coming days.

Fin's very frustrated, ... We're all very frustrated with the year Fin's having. No one feels it more than Fin.

Both teams want to win so bad. I think their team got a little frustrated and things happened. It's a big win for us. We know they're a very capable team. They've had our number early in the season. We had a better team effort from everybody, and we needed it.

The governor is very frustrated with the ongoing turf battle that is being waged within Law and Public Safety, ... He's determined to put an end to this situation, and he is seriously considered making the state Office of Counter-Terrorism part of the governor's office.

You can kind of see there is a lot turmoil going on (in New York). I think maybe upstairs in the organization, with the coaching staff and with the players. It kind of seems like everyone's a little frustrated with one another. I think that's kind of what you're seeing on the court. It's hard to win games when everything's divided and I think that's kind of what you're seeing right now.

We had a talk about it in practice. It's not our priority. But if she's close, we are going try to run plays for her. It's quite a milestone. She's had a good season and teams have been guarding her tough throughout the playoffs, which I know has frustrated her. She's handled it well though.

We wanted to pressure them and get them frustrated and speed them up a little bit.

We've had some wide-open shots, but they're getting frustrated and it gets in their head a little bit.

We've had no joy at all. We're very, very frustrated at the moment but that's life. It's one of those things in football. It's not unusual and we'll just get on and work as hard as we can.

We all travel the roads around here. We all have been frustrated by traffic problems. If you have a regular commute, then you deal with them every day and you know what they are. Now we want to hear from our residents and start taking action.

We're sure frustrated by some of the challenges because we're consumers too,

We're striving to clean up the process. It's a compromise that everyone is frustrated with. I'm sure we're going to have some pretty heated debates about it.

Tonight was a little rough, but the girls came together and came through. I think the girls were really frustrated when we were not getting the serves over. The confidence level came back. The rapport was awesome.

We had a great game plan. The defensive line had great pressure, and we were able to take advantage of it. I think toward the end of the game Ty got frustrated and made some bad throws he wouldn't normally make. We were in the right place at the right time." ()

We frustrated them, and they took a lot of poor penalties. We knew their game plan. They wanted to bang, have a lot of energy and come out and prove a point. There wasn't much of a point at the end.

We knew if we let them play their game with all the energy they had, it was going to be a long game for us. We just tried to do the same. We put the blanket on them in the neutral zone, and they got frustrated right off the bat.

TWIC is supposed to help port security know who is on their facility, and this has been very slow. We are very frustrated by that.

You hit the chains with your disc. The basket is below the chains. Sometimes you hit the chains and it won't drop into the basket. You get frustrated with that, but it's like golf.

To have the story of the Super Bowl be the officials, that was crazy. I was more angry and frustrated by some of the calls that I was devastated.

You have to keep working it. You can't get frustrated because teams obviously want to put the ball in play and you have to have confidence in your fielders behind you.

What am I thinking? The guy on the mound was pretty frustrated. He was just frustrated with the strike zone. He had a tough time throwing strikes. That's all. I don't think he threw at Trot, by no means. I think he had a frustrating day.

We were puzzled and frustrated by that, ... We were displeased with (management's) lack of urgency.

We had the opportunities, we just didn't take advantage of them. We had our chances and we probably should have won it. I feel a little selfish and really frustrated knowing how close we were to advancing.

We wish the last two years had been smoother. We wish there had been no injuries. We wish he could have played more and played back to the standard where he wanted to be. I know he was totally frustrated by it.

The public is frustrated and disappointed with what they see as a lack of progress in improving the quality of education. Because the issue is so important to them, (voters) want to see officials at all levels engaged, even if they're not directly involved (in education).

We felt pretty good leaving there, and we kept hanging around, and we really frustrated them, which is good.

We challenged Rene a couple weeks ago to step up and be the player he was in the middle of the season, and over the course of the last two weeks he's responded. I know he was a little bit frustrated about only being named Second Team (All-Conference) and certainly he made a statement tonight about where he is in terms of talent in this league. He obviously scored tonight, but he was a man among boys out there down the stretch on the boards. And that was the key reason why we were successful.

We saw that he was frustrated with himself a little bit. As older guys, we have to stay on him, make him think positive thoughts. Just one pitch at a time. Get ahead of the hitters. Be the pitcher he can be and forget about some of the thoughts that he has. Just pitch his game and not worry about what people expect from you. He's going to come around.

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You get frustrated because you know they're better than what they're showing. You see it through the course of a game. You just don't see it through nine innings.

We are very frustrated and concerned over where we are in this process. The union is engaged in a charade. It is clear to us that union leadership has no interest in negotiating or making a deal to save the start of the season. Union leadership is stalling, doing everything in its power to ensure this collective bargaining negotiation is not resolved in a timely manner.

We are very frustrated about it. A week ago and last Saturday she told us she wanted to get out of the rescue business.

We're disappointed, frustrated and angry. Small business is not a part of the Ontario plan for this budget and there is nothing.

We're disappointed and frustrated that we lost both matches over the weekend. But we're going to pick ourselves up from the bootstraps and get right back at it. Nothing very good came out of those two loses but we need to start making good things happen as we move forward.

We did a great job on him. We got him a little frustrated at the beginning of the game.

We had some breakdowns defensively. A couple of them were in transition where we missed a shot and didn't match up well. We weren't shooting the ball great early and probably got a little bit frustrated and didn't pay attention in transition like we needed to.

We had our goal as going to state. But we were frustrated and we had a lot of pressure. We were much tighter than usual. That was the biggest gym we had ever played in and we got caught up.

We could see people were getting a bit frustrated with the lack of play, and you could understand that when they have paid to get in. But we never felt that safety and security would be a problem.

Even though I haven't been doing so well this year, I like batting in the eighth spot. I was getting a little frustrated in the first couple weeks, because I know what I'm capable of doing at the plate. I came up as a productive hitter.

Easy night. We frustrated them all night long. It wasn't like we were just hanging on to win. I thought we dominated all night.

Because I think he was a little frustrated from the year before and previous years about his production. But, you got a new quarterback, new system. I think you have to take some of that into consideration.

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At the beginning of the year, if we would have struggled like that, we would have had a lot of people hanging their heads and it would have just escalated. They just bounced back, kept looking for what was open and kept focused on the target. I wasn't too concerned. I tell them, 'If we're not scoring that's OK, we just need to get stops.' Defense creates some offense. I tried to stick with the plan and not get too frustrated with them.

Congress finally got frustrated by politicians and gun-ban advocates misusing their trace data in a way that was not only misrepresenting the truth, but was releasing sensitive information that could impede criminal investigation.

Employers are frustrated because there is so much paperwork and oftentimes you don't know if things are real or not.

First of all, I want to apologize for my actions in the game. I crossed the line, I was kind of frustrated but I hurt the team. I can't be doing that. This whole season was a learning experience. I have gotten better mentally and physically and I'm just eager to get back for the next year and hopefully it will be a blast.

Every year's a new challenge. Every game's its own separate entity. We just have to work through every game. It's a learning experience. People get frustrated when we lose, but we've been here before. And this week's a challenge; we don't get a week off. It's 10 weeks of a meat-grinder, but that's they way we want it. We like games like this. Our kids play well in games like this.

There was a big difference in Kyle from his freshman to his senior year. A lot of that had to do with physical gains, but mentally he also showed a lot of growth. He used to get angry and frustrated on the court, even as a junior, but this year there was a big difference.

There's so much stuff they've thrown at him. Basically they threw the kitchen sink at him. Just his demeanor and his approach to it, calm, never getting frustrated ... If you practice that way, it will carry into the game.

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There's no specific play that lost the game. Any time you lose and you lose in the dramatic way like we lost, and we had an opportunity to win, you're frustrated about just losing, period. It's hard enough to win a game in the NFL every Sunday, but the games you feel like you should definitely win, it just leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

I shouldn't be taking sacks. I'm too good an athlete to be takings sacks. I need to get the ball gone or find a crease and run through it. . . . As you can tell, I'm frustrated more on the negative than the positive.

I've been pretty frustrated with the reaction of (city) staff and the planning commission. Before I agree to build something, I think I ought to know what I'm going to build.

I've been frustrated as a council member in the past, whenever we get donated open space it's never usable. This is the first time the land could be a benefit to the entire town to use.

I understand they're frustrated with the confusion over the days. However, the worst thing that happened is they got an extra day of school.

They are an extremely well-coached team, and that patience is the key. They will lull you to sleep, and those back cuts will be open, and they'll have open jumpers. Or you can become frustrated and foul. Particularly at this stage of the game, it's mental. You have to be mentally prepared to execute.

I've read in the media that people were frustrated with the length of time it took Brett to come to this decision. Last I checked, he hasn't missed any pre-season practices or games yet in the 2006 season.

It would seem that a significant proportion of the population has become extremely frustrated with the political process and with the system of multi-party democracy that Sao Tome has. And they no longer have any confidence in the major parties, but are faced with little other choice about who to vote for. And this is of serious concern for the country.

It was a lack of communication on his part. He?s been clearly frustrated with his injury.

These boys were frustrated because they, as has already been reported, they thought these women had come and taken a bunch of money and started dancing and just decided to leave.

The team is frustrated because they want to win. We're playing to lose right now and not to win.

The third down even before that play happened was incomplete and you could tell they were totally frustrated and dejected and I think that carried over into that fourth-down field goal. He saw his kicker missed it, and I guess he decided to take it out on whoever was there.

The success of the show provided me with amazing opportunities to visit so many wonderful places and meet so many wonderful people. When I was only 13 years old, I had been to 40 places. How many kids get something like that? But at the same time, it was hard for me as an actor to grow in more roles. That really frustrated me for a long time.

The thing with Pugh is you're always in the match. Every time he lets you up you get a point, a takedown is only worth two, so he's only getting one point every time. I knew to not get frustrated if I got down in points.

I wanted to get out of the car and whip his rear end. The kid needs to calm down a little bit. ... He's really frustrated for some reason.

Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.

Sometimes you get frustrated when a team goes on a run. But we have to be able to handle that. If she hits a big shot we need to hit one of our own.

Sometimes, I know as coaches we've been frustrated over the last couple years. But the kids have kept working hard and made progress. The program's growing. We're proud of the results. Not satisfied, hopefully we'll do better next year. But I'm pleased with the progress we've made the last couple years.

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Sometimes a team that might not get in the tournament like some of the teams in the NIT might come in with a little something to prove, and that can work either way. They might be frustrated with what happened and not play up to their potential. Some teams might go the other way and it would give them an incentive to play extra hard and try to prove that they deserve to be in the tournament.

Sometimes of course I got a little frustrated every time I got asked in press conferences about (it), and I had the idea that the media was making more of it, like a bigger deal than it was. I was very motivated, and I was working hard to try to do it.

Preparation is my biggest thing. I knew in Toronto we didn't prepare to have what it takes to win the game. We didn't know what the other team was doing. We didn't have a clue how we were going to defend. That frustrated me. We were going out there cold to try to win games.

Rarely do you get dominated at home. I thought we looked frustrated and didn't respond well to adversity.

Our constituents are angry and frustrated with these high gas prices -- and they deserve answers and actions from their elected officials,

People see these referendums as a way to stop development, and the kids are going to suffer. I'm frustrated with the logic of people who are willing to let kids be pawns in a power struggle between adults.

People don't understand that a lot of stuff he's done and the reason he plays so hard and is so hungry is because he wants to be great. I think a lot of time Ron gets frustrated because he knows he's better than what he's been playing. He wants to be the best player in the game. That's what drives him, that's what motivates him.

People are very, very frustrated by lack of a federal response. One of the top things in their minds was pure and wholesome drinking water.

People are very, very frustrated about the cost of health care.

People are very frustrated when they see the slowness of the response (to the hurricane). People figure they can give a gift very quickly. The slowness of the response is part of what triggered this outpouring of donations.

People don't want to hear about it if you're frustrated with your big career break.

Of course, we're all frustrated it's taking this long. But there appears to be no available land in Berkeley.

No, sir, that's been tried. Some city council members have already talked to him. I get just as frustrated as you are.

After being so frustrated by the 'ETC,' the idea of putting something together quickly, without a lot of studio interference, was really appealing. So she (Renfrew) took the script to InDigEnt, they loved it, and we were off to the races.

The most overwhelming feelings I have right now are being frustrated and angry. You replay things in your head that you let slip away and it makes you so mad. The hardest feeling for me personally is feeling that I didn't do what I needed to do to represent the program.

Sometimes I get frustrated really fast so I have to learn to be positive and not get frustrated so fast. (Against Connecticut) I was really frustrated (early) but then I knew that everybody looks up to me and looks to me to make plays and get everybody going, so I was just trying to be positive the whole game. It worked, so I just have to keep getting better at that.

Companies have recognized these consumers are frustrated with how come this brand doesn't talk to me. How come they don't speak my language? Why are they only talking to the younger generation?

Coach (Jimmy) Williams said it best that these guys have a resistance to learning. We go over it every day. For some reason these guys don't absorb it. That's what has frustrated the coaches. They're good people. They're not bad kids at all. But it's been a very frustrating year for the coaching staff.

And that's one of the things that I think we need to go back and find out, because I was sounding those alarm bells, and to this day I'm incredibly frustrated that we didn't move and could not move things faster.

Annie was frustrated in the preseason but she's steadily improved and has seven goals.

The business community of Rantoul is frustrated with the redevelopment of the base by the bureaucratic Air Force. We felt the Air Force is taking its time and blaming the lack of progress on budget constraints. It was time for us to take some action.

That poor son of gun, he keeps getting in the way, I guess. I know he was frustrated by it.

That was a big, big part of the game. She (Davis) is a great shooter, and she doesn't miss foul shots either (Davis was 4-for-10 from the stripe against Paint Valley). Tiffany frustrated her, and you could see it.

That?s funny that you say that, because I was trying to think, what's the theme of this record really, and I would say passion and frustration. New rock is frustrated. I'm an incredibly frustrated person. I think you could see that in my performance. That?s how I vent my frustration.

You're frustrated because you know the talent that we have on offense, and it's kind of mind-boggling wondering why we couldn't get it in the end zone that many times down there in the red zone.

You're frustrated because obviously they called one in the first that wasn't a penalty. Then whenever there is one, they said they didn't see it. It's frustrating when there was a high stick and there's proof.

Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I say, 'You know what you do? I'll tell you the secret, it's easy: Read 'Hamlet.' You know? Then read it again, and read it again, and read it until you understand it. Read 'King Lear,' and then read 'Othello.'