Hurdles Quotations

Regardless of the obstacles or hurdles that are ahead of you, regardless of the opponent, regardless of the odds, your goal and objective always is to win. I think that's part of sports.

I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all the leg exercises. I know they help me, and I'm able to move around and don't have knee problems, and my hip doesn't hurt anymore, but when my trainer tells me I have to do them, I almost feel like my body goes into convulsions.

What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them.

I'm so grateful for everything that's happened. I love my work. People have such hurdles - I just wanted to perform, and I wanted my parents to be proud, and they were proud.

When we got to talking about this, I knew in my heart it could be done. This community has never let us down when there is something as important as air service. We've come through in all sorts of circumstances, and this Essential Air Service is just the last of those little hurdles we've had to overcome.

We're going to let our attorneys review the ruling and see what we can do to get our port built. Obviously, there are more hurdles we have to jump.

There are different hurdles a pitcher has to clear on the way to establishing himself, ... This is a good stat for him to add to his resume.

Sen. Allard testified in front of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee last year that a number of hurdles have to be cleared before he could support this legislation, including putting it to a statewide referendum. The issue is larger than just Pueblo County.

She's really been attacking the hurdles the last few meets. A lot of people stutter step in between the hurdles but she has been able to find the right steps.

She's going to have her chance at the intermediate hurdles the rest of the year. Early in the season, we're not too caught up in the individual stuff yet. At Penn, the individual stuff is big, but I think the relays are bigger.

She has proposed a number of items that have been at the top of our advocacy agenda for years. In particular, we are thrilled by her proposal to create a small new Office on Hunger and Nutrition that will break through bureaucratic hurdles to better coordinate food programs across City agency lines.

Since I started my freshman year, the 400 hurdles was the event I wanted to be a national champion in.

She (Martin) has been very focused. She knows what she wants and works hard to get that. She still knows she can attack the hurdles harder.

Now that the legal hurdles have been cleared, the counting can resume in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade Counties ... with these legal obstacles gone, we hope these counts can be finished in the next few days,

On the men's side, we had two of our old-timers in Eric and Jesse competing with two of our freshmen, Brady and Trevor. Jesse competed unattached tonight. He's coming off a foot injury, and he's just starting to come back. Eric was just tired after football. We've been kind of slow with him coming back. But he will be there pretty quick. His mark tonight isn't much off his personal best right now. Brady and Trevor both have a couple of events they need to work on. Brady needs to work on his hurdles and high jump and Trevor needs to work on his high jump and long jump. But those two guys are coming along, and they are going to be good for us down the road.

One of the big hurdles to overcome is kids attitude toward science. Some kids think science is boring or they say I just don't understand it. You work around that by making it interesting and fun and relevant for kids.

I wouldn't view this as any indication the company is putting itself up for sale. I think it's an indication of better corporate governance. What they are trying to show everyone is that there's not going to be any artificial hurdles to them being acquired.

I hate to disappoint the people who want to panic, but this is strictly housekeeping. I would think with all these things cleared up, it may clear out some small hurdles that otherwise might have gotten in the way of a sale.

Four of my children are daughters, and I've watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.

He has to continue to get over the little hurdles that are going to make him a big-league pitcher. In his case, it is realizing the importance of location and trusting his sinker in the strike zone.

He may have pulled his (right) quad. We'll have to wait and see. (But) he pulled out of the hurdles and triple jump because he hurt it in the long jump.

What we had here was a very gut-wrenching decision and significant management and technical hurdles to overcome, and we're happy to be going forward.

He's a three-sport performer. He plays for me, then averages like 20 points in basketball and was a state-qualifier in the hurdles for the track team. He's impressive.

He knows the 400 hurdles like no other. I started learning things within the first five minutes with him.

I would say that our finally getting a new theater is more likely than not. There are still hurdles to jump, and it will take a great deal of work to bring it to completion, but the excitement of achieving it also adds enormously to the appeal of the job. I feel comfortable leaving City Opera in other hands,

(Kajima) is trying to make sure there will be no hurdles at planning and zoning. This is the first stage to see if they can get the height they need for the facility.

It is a real stretch from the indoor 55 hurdles to the 100 and 300 outdoor hurdles. Right now we are just trying to get her timing down and conditioning up.

I think there's a lot of things going on, ... We had some good news from companies like Oracle, great economic data this morning, and you had the market clear two key psychological hurdles recently -- the Dow passing 10,000 and the capture of Saddam Hussein. All of that brings buyers back in for the short term.

Just as Nomi, my character in 'Showgirls,' gets turned on by things that challenge her or obstacles or other hurdles to overcome, those are things that I welcome and I love that,

Jenny Betz had a really good hurdles race. She's worked pretty hard on that.

On the surface it looks very impressive, but we still feel there are a few hurdles that we need to overcome, but we've made a good step at challenging those levels.

(Pinkney) has had hamstring problems in the past, but he's gotten over that this year. I felt that running the 100 would help him run faster in the hurdles and we will need the additional scoring in the Big Tens.

(Paul) is a perfectionist. She works so hard on hurdles and it really shows.

Liu's winning time of 13.10 seconds in the men's 110m hurdles means that he has performed consistently at almost all the major events this year and he still has the potential to go faster. As to Huang and Wang Xing, who claimed the silver in the event behind Huang, they have grown much more mature.

I'm honored and excited to assume this new leadership role at AMD. During my time at AMD, we've overcome many hurdles to become a driving force in the microprocessor industry. Still, more challenges and opportunities are ahead of us, and I plan to help AMD capitalize on those opportunities to change the competitive dynamics of the microprocessor industry and continue our sustained growth. My new position also gives Hector more bandwidth to focus on leading the company as CEO.

That was her first time running the 100 hurdles and she did OK. I think she's conquered her fear of the hurdles and I think those times will come down.

We can say authoritatively that federal bankruptcy law changes are doing no measurable good whatsoever. They've done nothing more than put new hurdles in the path of people who are already flat on their back due to a financial crisis over which they have no control.

We're delighted, and I'm betting millions of Nationals fans are too. This clears one of the last hurdles in the process and gets us ready to finally break ground on a ballpark that gives the Nationals a new home and sparks an exciting economic revival in southeast.

We have a lot of hurdles to overcome, but there's a definite light in the tunnel here. Are we satisfied with what's happened (this season)? Absolutely not. But more and more pieces of the puzzle are in place.

We have been working really hard here the past three years. We've had some hurdles like all rebuilding jobs. This year we have more players. We have more experienced players. The first-year guys we have signed are making contributions. We're kind of getting it from everywhere. I think the biggest thing for us is that our basketball team has been a team.

Those are little hurdles you have to get over. Sometimes you have to learn to pitch with a lead, even if it's a slight lead.

Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.

We had a nice day. It was pretty much a team effort. We were disqualified in the shuttle hurdles relay but scored pretty much in every other event.

We recognize there are a lot of events that are converging at this very moment, but we don't see them as linked and we don't see them as a crisis. We see them as hurdles that we obviously will need to overcome.

We don't know all of the hurdles he has to cross over.

We should point out that significant legal hurdles face the plaintiffs before they could prevail in these cases. Many of the agreements between the managed care companies and the physicians require arbitration and this could defuse the class actions ... However, we believe current HMO valuations assume these lawsuits will be dismissed out of hand. This is unlikely.

Who's in the best position to make decisions for these patients? To erect more administrative hurdles really doesn't make sense.

We were well-rounded, all the way from the hurdles to the distances to the throws. It is a big-time confidence booster going into that (new) league next year knowing we can compete in that league.

There are going to be some hurdles along the way. But in the end we will have better schools and therefore a better educational experience to offer our children.

There are a number of regulatory hurdles that will need to be addressed. As well as approval you have firms that are listed on each exchange and each of those listings has a requirement. What is the impact to those requirements?

There are a few of them who are going to be negative no matter what happens and say everything's impossible, ... But already we've passed so many hurdles of those kinds.

When you introduce something new, it disrupts, and this increases things like help desk costs and employee downtime. So, to get to the benefits that come with this, they have to get past whatever retraining will be needed around the new user interface and any hardships around the new file format, which are always disruptive. These are two big hurdles Microsoft has to get around.

We were surprised at the announcement, because it requires a very complex business calculation. It has an awful lot of hurdles at the state level.

Both sides got totally out of the starting blocks, but that's as far as we've got, and we've got a number of hurdles to get across until we can see the finish line.

We all must try our best to ensure that these benefactors of society experience of society do not have to experience problems and all the hurdles from their path are removed.

We're past the first generation of mobile devices. Many technical hurdles have been eliminated, and that will be reflected in the market.

We talked about how hard it's going to be going on the road. The whole thing is to just continue to jump the hurdles one game at a time.

When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infrastructural hurdles to issues related to my credibility as a business woman. With no access to venture capital, money was scarce and high-cost, debt-based capital was all I had.

Brad is coming along well in the hurdles and he's definitely improved over last year.

Every project has hurdles. This project has never gotten to the point where the hurdles are insurmountable.

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Congress got bankruptcy reform wrong, dead wrong. The federal bankruptcy law changes ... are doing no measurable good whatsoever. They've done nothing more than put new hurdles in the path of people who are already flat on their back.

There was a great field this weekend. I really gathered it all together today. I thought I performed well yesterday in the high jump, and then had a good pole vault and hurdles today.

There's so much more when you get to the big leagues than a young player can anticipate. And that's beyond the pressures of trying to pitch well from the start. So we will have a good long talk about some of the things that can end up being unexpected hurdles when guys get here.

The shuttle hurdle relay at the Drake Relays could be a lot of fun. We've got a couple of other guys who would like to be a part of that. We had three guys in the finals (at the Adidas Classic), but the hurdles in the conference is really, really strong, so (Sumrall) has got to get better if he wants to place at conference and I know that's what he wants to do.

The three hurdles that we had to get over this summer, we got over without incident.

Sometimes guys get on a roll,'' former 110-meter hurdles world-record holder and current agent Renaldo Nehemiah told me Wednesday.

Compaq is making incremental steps to improve its business line. But they really have several hurdles going forward.

Despite the fact that rape victims have a formal right to legal abortion, that right was blocked by a maze of administrative hurdles and negligence and obstruction by public officials.

A lot of the hurdles we would face were made very apparent to us.

They need to get over these hurdles with NTP to compete in the marketplace. RIM is now dealing with these legal issues instead of focusing their own resources to compete against rivals like Microsoft.

They don't want to put stuff on the air that's sub-par. They don't know what hurdles they need to overcome to get a National on the air until they get in . . . and find out.

There were a lot of hurdles in dealing with this because he had a no-trade, but we finally got it done. Doug Weight making the decision to come here when he had a few options with other teams that he knew that he could possibly go to I really feel speaks volumes for this franchise at this point and time. And now we have the most sought-after player that was available in the league leading up to the trade deadline accepting a trade to come to Carolina, and I think that this proves that this franchise is moving in the right direction.

This kid?s a phenomenal athlete who?s just beginning to mature physically and mentally. The hurdles are difficult to learn for anyone, but he picked them up just like that. We haven?t even worked on form yet. He?s doing it on pure athletic ability. As an indicator of what kind of ability Gary has, he?s long-jumped 21-4 and run 10.7 for the 100 in practice.

They preach humanity the virtues of virtuosity and religiousness. God rewards such people by removing all the hurdles from their path.

They have now cleared all the hurdles that they needed.

It's one significant step, but there are still a lot of hurdles to overcome.

It looks like the last hurdles are something they can get over here.

It's unfortunate that in 2006 this is still a hot topic. I still think there are some issues out there, some hurdles that minorities and women face with higher ranking jobs, not just in athletic administration but the public and private sector as well.

That's one of the hurdles ? and it's a pretty major one. There's no way that any transaction involving the airport would ever take place were that situation not addressed entirely.

It's not a final decision. Those hurdles are pretty high. And the antitrust hurdle would be a major one.

The big hurdles next week are the Fed meeting Tuesday and the jobs report Friday. The market reaction to those events may set the tone for the month and determine whether we'll see a November rally.

The bigger issue here is, to me, that when we can't access our neighbors with food, then farming just dries up. The fact is that all these hurdles that prohibit local food commerce keep what would be millions of dollars circulating in the rural local economy are therefore denied to the local economy. So farmers go out of business and sell to developers.

The two major hurdles continue to be oil and interest rates on the Treasuries. The market has demonstrated through the first quarter that we can snap back.

They have put new hurdles in the path of people who are already flat on their back due to financial crises.

That's definitely a possibility. Right now I'm focusing on George Porter's 300 hurdles (prep record), which is 35.32. That's the goal.

I know we still have some hurdles to cross. You just don't know what they're going to be.

I'm looking forward to seeing him back over fences and he's in good form. He ran well over hurdles last week and that would have blown away a few cobwebs and he's been down to the sea this week as he normally does.

I'm just glad to be on the team. I just tried to carry my momentum from the hurdles to the dash. That was my focus, just to keep the ball rolling.

I'm so proud of our team. We have been through so much together. We overcame a lot of hurdles all year. Even tonight we didn't give any excuses.

I have no comment over her at all. I'm looking forward to competing in the hurdles and the long jump and I hope to progress as much as I did last week.

I'm very proud of my partnership with Amgen and The Wellness Community on the Breakaway from Cancer campaign because nearly everyone is touched by cancer in one way or another and it is critical that those affected realize they don't have to face this illness alone. Just as in cycling, where it takes a great support team to help an individual breakaway from the pack, it takes a strong support network to help a cancer patient face the many hurdles throughout treatment.

I'm confident that we will be back in this market in 2007. We want to keep an open mind and an open dialogue and do what we can to get back in this market in 2007. -- there are hurdles to overcome.

If there are more hurdles that we need to go through, I guess that's what we'll be told in a response from the state.

If he gets through all that, September is very realistic. He's come a long way and has some hurdles to clear, but it would be great to get him back.

I don't see any major issues with Dante other than getting his track legs back. His technique isn't an issue and his speed is fine. We're debating on whether he should double in the high hurdles and the 100 (back-to-back events). The guy's a horse.

He ran well. He got off to a real good start, tripped up on a few hurdles in the middle, but what counts is that he scored and earned All-America recognition. I think this is redemption for being left out of last year's indoor meet.

The major point is to protect private homeowners from eminent domain and put major hurdles in the way of the government if they want to take your house. It's going to put an awful lot of obstacles in the way of eminent domain, especially for economic development.

Their model has a lot of hurdles that they need to leap to get it to work.

This is only stage one. We still have a way to go, but I think this is one of the major hurdles to accomplish.