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They just started passing the ball a little bit better and working hard. When we quit playing kickball and started looking for our passes, it really opened up the field for us.

They just got overconfident, I think, and quit hitting.

They learned they can't get caught up in the emotion of it all and quit playing.

This is a very big win. Even though it's at the end of the season and we are on the outside looking in, we are still playing together and it shows you there is no quit in this team. I think we are building good chemistry heading toward next season.

I was 22 and had worked on Wall Street for a year, and quit my job. I bought a motorcycle and sort of had this fantasy that I'd go cross-country like 'Easy Rider.' I went from New York to L.A., and on the way back, I stopped in Chicago and saw a friend of mine who was into improv. And I figured it might be fun to give it a shot.

Once I quit helping so much, I was able to play him more one-on-one. That worked better. I felt he was a great player. I see a lot of upside for him.

So far as we can tell, people are still flocking to courses to quit smoking because, as we have more restrictions on smoking, there is more demand. Nicotine patches and gum help to make them more effective, more successful, but they do not work by themselves.

Smoking increases the cost of health care... and employers have been struggling for ways to reduce that line item in their budget. Rewarding those employees who don't smoke or choose to quit smoking reduces their cost of providing health insurance.

Smoking in and of itself does not control weight, but there's no question that when people quit smoking, they often gain a few pounds, ... And for some industries, that can be a horrible thought.

(Sobolewski) had a rough camp, might have pressed a little bit. ... I told him he could get called up at any time. He needs to quit pressing and get back to doing the things he does well.

That's a great comeback the kids made. They weren't about to give it up. This group of kids ... they're not going to quit until the buzzer sounds.

The kids stuck to it and didn't quit on me. That's the most important part.

The kids never quit and they continued to battle. Basketball is a game of momentum and I just feel the clock just ran out on us. We didn't get a chance to get that momentum back again.

The kids have never quit, there's not an ounce of quit in them. Everybody's frustrated, but they've got a lot of heart. We're gonna turn the corner, it's just a matter of when that's gonna happen.

The lake has risen 13 feet in four years, but if we do go into a drought again, we're right back where we started. My boss says I can't quit until the lake reaches that level.

Their ability to hit some big pressure shots was the difference. You have to give them credit. They didn't quit at all and it's a 32-minute game. They made big shots when they had to.

The fans are the most important part of the game. Without them, there is no game. They are going to quit coming to the games if we don't make the game better, more entertaining.

The cop told her to walk, get in the Jeep, sit down, quit walking back and forth saying that 'You're going to have this man's truck towed.' You can't tow it and she's going 'Yes I can. I'm gonna. You're gonna see. It's gonna get towed.'.

I'm not ready to quit yet. I'm not ready to go home.

I'm going to quit talking about the coaches. From now on you'll never hear me say anything about the coaches at UNC.

I'm elected. I don't report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to any politician, I'd quit tomorrow. I'm not tall, dark and handsome. They don't vote for me because I look like a movie star. I can't get that vote. People keep voting for me because they like what I do.

I'm not going to quit fighting so that Alabama will have a choice for governor in 2006,

I'm not happy with my record. I have to quit walking so many people. I have walked 15 (batters) in 34 innings, and I walked 19 in 83 innings last year.

I'm disappointed, but there were a lot of positives. My attitude was good. I never quit and didn't let go, always believed I could still pull it off.

I'm proud of the kids. They never quit all year. When they reflect back, I think they'll be pretty pleased.

I'm really disappointed running like this. I'm surprised it's been this way most of the year, but now we have to go out and try to win races. We quit worrying about points a long time ago.

I'm really about to cry right now, but I can't because my neck hurts so much. I landed on my head and my neck. But I wasn't going to give up. I don't quit for anything. I just sucked it up and I won.

I just wish men would quit thinking they could just duke it out with each other. I don't have all the facts, and who knows what's really the truth, but I don't really respect (Bush's) way of dealing with this situation. It would have been great to have someone really, really smart in that office, and someone who is globally aware.

I instinctively knew it was a major opportunity, so there was a lot at stake. You get it wrong and you could lose everything. Eventually they said, 'Just quit moaning and do it'. And it's been wonderful.

I love this team. They play hard and never quit battling. I hope they've made a name for themselves. I think they believe and they're gaining confidence.

I love this team. There has been a lot of grit and fight in these guys all season. These guys made my first year so special. They had no quit and taught me so much about resiliency.

I'm very content to have great management and a great label. But for me, success started when my managers came to me and told me, 'Go ahead and quit your job.' I told them, 'As long as I don't have to wash dishes anymore, I'm good.'

I'm inspired to be in charge of a great club. It's getting huge. I'm overwhelmed. I've almost had to quit my other job.

I know the big events, like if a camp burned down from a fire. But in terms of the minutiae from day to day... not much. If somebody's just whining, I won't know about it, because everybody whines. But if there's a legitimate concern that a person may quit tonight at tribal council, then yes, I need to know that. Tribal council lasts anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour and a half.

I knew it wouldn't be easy. Coach (Aaron) Watson has his kids playing hard; they have no quit in them. This is a difficult place to play, but I was pleased.

I have two options: quit or find a way to be better. I'll be better before this is over.

I have two options. I can quit or I can find a way to get better. I'm going to be better. I'm going to be better before this is all over. I'm going to be the guy that they count on to throw seven, eight, nine innings every fifth day, and it's going to be sooner rather than later in my mind.

I like driving the 45, ... That's the car I want to quit racing in.

I'm most disappointed in how many transition points they had. I don't feel like anybody on our team quit today, but I think it was one of our poorest performances.

I'm just not going to tour. One point I want to get across to everybody is that I'm still going to make records and I may still do some events. It's not the last time I'm onstage. It's been a part of my life for too long to quit everything. I have done it since the '80s, and I think it's time now to maybe see if I can live without that part.

I'm so proud of these guys right now. They could have quit when Springwood jumped on us early, but they stepped up.

If I were an adviser, I'd tell the president to quit talking principles and present a plan. Get a specific plan and start advocating it.

I haven't accomplished all my goals. I won't quit until I get there.

I had to say something to them to quit watching them and get ready because it was more than a bit intimidating watching them warm up.

I had to quit my job and start staying home with the little guys. Two of them were babies at the time and when we moved here, I was basically Mr. Mom.

I had to quit cold turkey three years ago. I was up all night, all day. I just realized that, hey, I've got to do some other things with my time. It can be an addiction, man.

I had to quit calling timeouts because it was making the game so long. We just needed to get on the bus and learn from that one.

I had a person that worked as a mechanic here and quit his job today because his gas bills were running 120 dollars a week. It hurts me like it hurts everyone else.

I never go around claiming moral victories. But for us after being embarrassed 20-0 by them at our place, I liked that there wasn't any quit in us. We kept battling. But we were outclassed. It was like a race horse. They are a thoroughbred and we're a quarter horse.

I'm the average, everyday underdog and I want everyone to know we can do this, together, all of us. Never quit living your dream.

I'm not the kind of player who is going to quit for nothing.

I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign. I mean, if there's one thing that's clear ... he knows more about his campaign organization than he knows about state government.

If she makes that we're up three. Instead, we're kind of deflated after that (call). We had some things kind of go against us ... but these kids didn't quit all year. Even at the end they were still battling.

If people quit after 25 percent of anything, there would be some serious inventions or famous people that wouldn't have been discovered. So we're not going to quit after 25 percent. We still have 75 percent of the season to play, so we're just going to keep grinding. Even if we don't find it until the last game, we will have gotten there.

If you have a problem in your job or business, you can quit and leave. But you can't quit your family.

If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it's the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad.

If you look at some of the most successful people in history, at some point they all failed, but they didn't quit or give up.

In our last two games we had double-digit leads and lost because we quit playing defense. That was pretty much what we worked on in practice all week, and we had a lot better defensive effort (Friday).

I'll miss it to a certain extent, but I've always said when the time comes (to retire) I would know it and I'd quit doing. I felt like this was the time.

I know coach Q. I know him personally as a man and as a coach, and he's just not that type of person to give up on us. ... I know he didn't quit on us. I know he's not that type of person. He doesn't have that type of character.

I have quit searching outside; the Guru has shown me that God is within the home of my own hear.

I haven't heard anything formal, but if Ben does quit rep football, it would be a blow because he has been such an influential and tremendous player for NSW and Australia over the years.

I haven't heard anything formal, but if Ben does quit rep football it will be a blow because he has been such a tremendous player for NSW and Australia.

I really rode Brad hard for about three quarters of the year. And then I told him if he would do the things I told him to do I'd quit riding him.

I probably shouldn't have said it on the radio, but there ain't another team in this league that could fall down by 15 points and still come right back at you. I was never nervous when we got down 15, 18 points. Not with this group. Honestly, if this group works as hard in life as they do on the basketball court, they're going to succeed. There's no quit in them.

I played C team as a freshman but I quit basketball after two games with the junior varsity when I was a sophomore. I wasn't happy with my playing time. Then I found I couldn't make the commitment.

I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

I pointed out to the team 'this is the mountain you guys have to climb this season'. Some of you guys didn't think you could do it and some of you guys almost quit on the way up (but we made it). It is tough but this is how our season is.

In the locker room, I asked them not to quit on me. We could have. This could have been a 40-point blowout.

In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at 'The Mail' on Sunday in the U.K. and became a 'ghost writer,' collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, soldiers and sporting legends who needed help in penning their autobiographies.

I quit work to get him better. He needs all of my attention now.

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.

I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.

I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.

I quit in eighth grade 'cause this one pitcher had no control, hit me dead in the side.

If you really want to lower your risk for stroke, follow the mainstays, ... These will go a long way in reducing your risks: Quit smoking, lower your cholesterol, start exercising and keep a healthy diet.

Ijust loved our effort tonight. It was awesome, ... ... What we can take away from this is we played with two of the best teams in the state. But we've got to quit making mistakes.

I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.

I quit eating the (junk), ... Two hundred is my goal.

Cigarette smoking continues to impose substantial health and financial costs on individuals and society. If we want to significantly reduce the toll in this decade, we must provide the 32 million smokers who say they want to quit with the tools and support to do so successfully.

Can I quit now? Can I come home? ... I'm trapped now, please rescue me.

But when you try to out-Wal-Mart Wal-Mart, how dumb are you? I tell people to quit playing that game. Wal-Mart has plenty of weaknesses that you can exploit.

But I think if you can impose your will on a team and you know when they're about to quit - they're getting tired of that inside play coming right at them - that's how we want to play. We want to keep the defense on its heels.

But I don't think that should be the only basis on which legislators make decisions. It's more important that they quit looking into the judicial crystal ball and exercise their responsibility to be policy makers.

But it's always a player's decision and I kept telling her I didn't want to quit even though I was panicking.

I don't know if we got tired or what. We quit screening out and got beat on the baseline too many times in the second half. I was hoping that we could keep the runs to about six or seven, but they got that 14-0 run and that was it for us.

I don't know if it's really fearlessness, ... but he's got a real good seat-of-the-pants feel. A lot of people, if they're going too fast, really freeze up or quit thinking.

I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a drug test because I was ready to quit football,

He told me to quit making my shots. I looked at him and said, 'Man, what about you?' He is possibly the best freshman in the league.

Gas prices are way too high. What I make cutting grass, I turn right around and spend on gas. (Gas) shouldn't be this high. Other than quit buying gas, I don't really know how we can solve the problem.

(Georgia Tech) quit on us. They really quit. They came out and were talking it up and then it died down. They gave up.

If everyone would quit beating me on the homes, I'd be down here already, Moving is based on the market,

If I had a brain in my head I'd quit right now. I'm not going to be as good a coach next year.

I called a time-out and told the kids that they could either quit or try and get back into the game. We started nipping away and got it down to six at half-time.

I decided to quit 'Survivor: All-Stars' in order to be closer to my mother, who ended up passing away from breast cancer seven days after I returned home.

I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like, "Hey, when are you going to pay me that $100 you owe me?" or "Do you have that $50 you borrowed?" Man, quit being so cheap!

I don't think there's any quit in our group, even in the games that have gotten out of control at the end.

I'd quit smoking for about two years and I had headaches,

I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do.

I don't think (drivers) have quit going, but this latest jump might do it.