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It made me mature a lot faster than I probably should have. I think I see things in a different perspective than most teen-agers.

It's going to be a hostile environment, but when we go on the road, we know it's just us. That's all we have. I feel like we're a good road team. St. Joe's was a big win for us - that was a statement game. We're more mature as a team. We're more together. On the road, you might not have a lot of fans. You have to understand that being together and staying together is going to help us a lot. If we stay together, anything can happen.

It's quite impressive that a 17-year-old kid can be that grounded. It would be pretty easy for him to get pretty big for his britches. A lot of 17-year-olds aren't mature enough to handle all of this. There's no resentment at all with his teammates because he handles it all so well and includes them. You get a guy this talented in this small of a pond, and he can overpower the whole pond, but Jake doesn't do that.

It's probably the most difficult decision I've had to make in the time I've been the head coach. I'd come to this club around about the same time Eddie was drafted. He's grown up here while I've been here, and, you know, I put a lot of faith in him two years ago and he carried our team nearly all the way to the playoffs. I've seen him mature and get better as a player and win national team honors, so, yes, that was a very hard to let Eddie go.

It's prepared us. It's made us mature as a team and be ready for the sort of things that can happen at any moment.

Danny is physically mature beyond his years, and that will put him in a good position to handle the rigors of MLS. He's a wonderful all-around player who's capable of playing in the league this year. It's important that nobody puts too many demands on the kid, but he's got a bright future.

Daniel's going to be successful in whatever he does, because he works hard and he's very mature in how he acts and does things. I'm obviously a huge Daniel Freeman fan.

Dave Andreychuk walked into our locker room four seasons ago and helped us find our way. He helped our young players grow and develop and mature more quickly, and he helped establish an expectation level in terms of expecting to win each and every night through hard work and commitment. ... Having his veteran presence back in our locker room, and his perennial 20-goal contribution on the ice, are huge factors in helping us attempt to repeat as Stanley Cup champions.

That makes us more comfortable with mature processes.

It's like going from college basketball to the NBA. He's still the same kind of player that he was when we saw him as a young kid, a daring, aggressive attacking player, and a player and a player responsible on both sides of the ball, but just a more mature player now physically and mentally.

It's not exactly a big surprise that women mature earlier than men do. As a result, they tend to display better judgment, particularly when it comes to money.

Effective immediately ... officials are issuing a general resident evacuation for all residents living from the Seven Mile Bridge through Key West due to Tropical Storm Rita, which is expected to mature into Hurricane Rita later Monday.

Not that being so mature is a bad thing, but there are times to be mature and there are times to be loose.

It's a mature market area that hasn't seen a lot of new investment. The low vacancy rates are being driven by a lack of new inventory and relatively strong densities. As a result, new retail centers are performing well in the area.

It's a much more attractive market than the U.S. -- the growth of Internet commerce is less mature and Europeans love to travel. They have more vacation time.

It's an early indicator that new technologies and new routes to market for standards-based technology can begin to crimp at the edges of brand-name vendors, ... If vendors aren't attentive to these things and don't have a mature story to tell their customers about open source in general, this could be very problematic for them.

It's being more mature and not kind of playing street ball or throwing it around or being careless with it. That's a good sign.

It was a major change of life from facing no responsibilities to becoming more mature and responsible.

I've got a really mature point guard for a sophomore. The Considine girl doesn't like to lose and she plays that way. She not selfish - she leads us in every category - shooting, scoring, assists and steals. But her determination and work ethic rub off on everybody else.

It was pleasure watching him grow ? from a ninth-grader with so much potential, seeing him mature as an athlete from an emotional freshman. He became such a leader. He's such a good person, a good guy ? just a quality individual. He was so much more than just a gifted athlete. He was a pleasure to be around and I know we won't see his level of athlete in our school.

It's very intense. You just have to be prepared and don't look ahead. But our players are very mature about it. They stay focused.

I want to play women my own age, rather than artificially 'de-age' myself so that I can play women who are younger or much younger than I am. I want to grow into those kind of more mature parts, not try and keep them at bay for as long as I possibly can.

IT takes time for a fruit to mature and acquire sweetness and become eatable; time is a prime factor for most good fortunes.

It takes a very mature young man (to do what he did). He's made good decisions for his age, choices guys his age don't usually make. He's a very humble person and he's been taught well by his mother about how to receive praise.

It takes a great athlete and a very mature athlete to play as a rookie in the NFL.

It will take awhile to know if the mature technology that comes out of the working group will have a lot of support.

They coach their quarterbacks as well as anyone in the country. That's just a given at William and Mary. They have a special touch to grow and mature quarterbacks.

The world is recognizing you can't keep building 1950s-style ranch houses because we don't have the land anymore. I don't think San Jose is any different. As all cities mature and grapple with land becoming more scarce, there's still a desire to build housing in a community.

The U.S. government is continuing its effort to get China -- as a responsible and mature player in the rules-based global trading system -- to play by the rules.

They've told me to mature really fast on the court and play with a lot of experience, because it's pretty much me and Craig until at least January. We're the only two point guards on the team for at least the first half of the season.

They were very mature when it came to understanding the game and having that discipline and being able to keep their composure under pressure.

They'll be starting from a much higher point in terms of experience and background in our system, knowing what it takes to play in the league and all that. I think they came in at a very mature level. To avoid the second year not being as good as the first, I think they have to maintain their work ethic and attitude, desire, aggressiveness, all of those things that gave them a chance to be successful this year.

They honored themselves well and McLean well. Some of the situations they were put in, in that last inning, they played very mature softball and it was incredible.

They keep commenting on how amazingly mature everyone is,

They will probably be laggards. They want something mature and will be slower to adopt than the very high and very low end.

They've grown up quite a bit, ... When you live at home, you let mom and dad do everything. They've become more mature and responsible. They take care of their own things instead of relying on us to do it.

Things happen for a reason. I think I've been able to get experience with each year. I know I have to fight even harder now. I think I'm a little bit more mature and I can think about the situation. And since the injuries, I've gotten stronger.

These pandas are immature. They won't be physically mature for three or four, maybe five more years, so we got a ways to wait. I hope soon thereafter they will breed and produce offspring and then we'll study that mother with her baby.

The new owner was looking for a stable asset in a mature market and this is one of the nicest office buildings in this market. This building has stable tenants, so it gives (Meyer) stability and security in rent.

It's really nice to see him mature and handle pressure and try to be a positive influence to everyone who is around him. I think he is getting there. That's the joy of teaching high school kids, seeing that maturity when you have seen them struggle in the past and then they get it together their senior year.

Any time you have a small senior class, you feel it. There are leadership issues. But the real challenge is that team is going to be lacking in depth, rather mature depth, guys with experience. The plus side is that the guys coming in will be much better athletes, and Charlie's not afraid to throw a young guy into the fire.

Anytime you are 6-foot-7 and can shoot the ball as well as Chris and are as athletic as him you are going to be talked about as a high-major prospect. His game is very mature for his age and he can go inside and outside. He has all the tools to be a big-time wing player.

Sky is mature enough to figure it out on his own. We've talked about the sense of urgency with our team, but Sky knew.

At this stage, everyone is a professional. Everyone knows the game, and they know the players. So I think it behooves a coach to be open to asking (us) about certain players. At this level, everyone's adults. Everyone's mature in this game.

That's an incredible stat for me to look at. That means Larry Blair is now a force inside the arc. He had 34 points inside the arc. That's a tremendous job of him driving. When you get to the place where you're mature enough physically and confident enough to penetrate that basketball, you can literally put a lot of pressure on everybody's defense.

Arlington had the better play today. I think that first goal deflated us a bit. The guys came here ready to play, but Arlington is an older team, a more mature team and I think it shows.

The kids have come out with a mature approach and bought into some of the new things we're doing. When you work on something you haven't done, you have to expect that it will work.

The joint venture puts us in a clear cost-leadership position in a mature market,

Their prices between the time that you buy them and (the time when) they mature or you sell them can jump around a lot. And they have this one terrible risk -- they're very bad assets in inflation.

I'm not going to offer any excuses. I give all the credit to Morgan. They came out and were real physical with us. It shows what a mature team can do to us.

I'm excited. We've seen some growth in the players from last year in their conditioning and commitment. The kids are starting to mature soccer-wise. We're looking to be competitive in every game.

I'm disappointed that the players have put themselves in a very embarrassing situation and did not use good judgment. I'm just hopeful that lessons have been learned. As these young men move into mature adulthood ... they must learn to either defuse the situation or walk away from it.

I'm a firm believer in doing the little things right. We're not as mature as we need to be. We need to be mature as a group. I think our big thing is that we are going to get better.

I'm sure every team has about three or four pages of at-bats on him. His last two at-bats were very mature at-bats.

In countries where DTH pay-TV has been available for over five years, as in North America and Europe, the market is mature and subscriber growth is slowing. Where DTH pay-TV platforms were launched after 2000, subscriber growth rates are higher. In India, for example, DTH pay-TV subscribers are expected to have tripled in 2005.

In China and most of the Asia/Pacific region, it is important to note that the market for PC-based POS systems is quite a bit different than the other parts of the world. While in more mature markets the POS systems are predominantly retail-hardened devices, the growth in China and most Asian countries is coming in the form of low-end PC POS devices and PC-on-Cash Drawer devices.

In Japan, Hello Kitty is a mature brand, even though it has seen substantial growth over the years.

Injuries are part of the athletic experience. Many young players will be looked to to share these senior's minutes and fill the goal scoring void. Yet senior leadership is very hard to replicate. Baptism by fire will both humble and mature our young squad.

In all honesty, Agassi was a great player before Brad game along. I think Brad probably helped Andre maintain his standard at a high level and they worked well together. The situation with Roddick, it was becoming evident that he wasn't getting to the next level. All of us could see that and there were parts of his game that were immature. Now bringing Brad on board, he's been able to mature that side of the game.

I'm interested in the minds of the mature and inspired.

I know the run he has been on and today we found out why. We saw a much more mature pitcher.

I like his ability to advance the ball after contact. He's a very mature young man, and I think he will take the work ethic he learned in high school and apply it to the next six months so he will be ready in the fall.

I'm real proud of the way the girls have pulled together. They've handled the situation like mature adults, but that's not to say they aren't devastated by this.

I'm more serious about the job. I think Jack needs to mature a little more, honestly.

I'm more mature now. I'm making smarter decisions on the court. I'm more aware of which shot I'm supposed to hit at the right time to win the important points. I served well, especially in the second set. I got a lot of easy points. I was able to dictate against her.

I'm pretty sure he was under pressure (to win races) while he was still in his mother's belly, but the way he handles it (today) is unbelievable. He's very mature for his age.

I'm proud of how well the team did this year considering how young they are. This team will continue to get better and will be much more mature next year.

In a time of intractable crisis like this, we have the king to look to, but ideally we should try to solve our problems ourselves to mature as a democracy.

I must say I am much more aware of what I am doing on the court now, ... When I was in (the) Top 10, everything was easy for me. I had nothing to lose. I was just swinging at the ball and had fun -- there was no pressure. Definitely now I am more mature and making much smarter decisions on the court.

In a mature oil-producing region like Kansas, all the big discoveries have been made. Kansas is one of the most densely drilled places in the world. For a long time, we've been on the downhill side of the production curve.

I modeled it on Pflugerville. The zombies live in a suburban environment, like Pflugerville. Most zombie movies begin with the plague. Mine is more of a mature world.

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

If you don't breach the lagoon, you'll lose the run of fish. There are arguments both ways. If you breach it too early, the younger fish are going to die because they're not mature enough and will get sucked out into the ocean, but if there's a drought year, you're going to have to open it up during their spawning cycle so they can get into the river.

If we can convince millions of calm, mature motorists not to get sucked into encounters with angry drivers, many lives can be saved and injuries reduced.

If you look at the guys who left and add up the goals they scored, it really wasn't very many. They provided leadership and stability in the room, and now it's time for other guys to have that responsibility, because they're mature enough to handle it.

In the first quarter of 2006, emerging markets and consumer demand in the mature regions were the major growth engines on a worldwide basis. Mobile demand remains strong worldwide, but in the U.S. desktop consumer market demand increased in response to renewed price competition.

In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature life, the reason is the predominating faculty.

I just tried to find different ways to get along with him. Racing usually helps horses and they sort of mature through their races, so probably each race helped him along the way.

I just don't think we were prepared to play at such a high level. Mount Royal played really well and they're a very good team. They're ranked third in Canada. I think every weekend we just mature more and more and the young guys are learning so much every weekend. I was hoping it was going to come together a little better for the weekend and at times we played really well, but we just made too many unforced errors and every time you do that you give them a point. So I wanted to reinforce the idea of not making unforced errors.

I have to admit, that when they first enlisted, I was shocked. But at the same time I agreed with their decision. I trusted that they were mature young men and that they were capable of making a decision like that.

I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that's so poppy that it's wrong for me. If I was 22 years old... it's easy for me to write something that's less mature than I am or ought to be. I'm looking for something that acts my age.

Investor sentiment is important, but not nearly as much as basic company growth. While the vast majority of the first-generation Internet companies may not survive, the leaders ? those with first mover advantage and no small measure of luck ? will survive and will take the Internet to its second, more mature phase of development.

In terms of basketball experience, they're a mature group.

In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I'll be at both acting and living.

I think '24' is a more mature audience, whereas 'Heroes' is a little bit younger. But I have to say, neither one is child friendly. My daughter doesn't get to watch either show!

I just think as much as anything we're not as confident as you want to be because we've lost so many close games. At the same time, I think they're mature enough to know that we've caused most of that.

I ran out an eighth-grader at 152 and a brand new kid at 160 with Joe being out now with the hip. They were just physical, a lot more mature and stronger (than) us.

Children begin their lives in the social world of their families, however, as they mature they are introduced to the social world of peers and spend increasing amounts of time with kids their own age. The types of relationships they form differ from those they have with parents and siblings and teach them unique skills that impact their development. Peer relationships are more balanced and the partners tend to bring similar levels of ability, reasoning and skill to their interactions.

Canada is a more mature market. Here, we can be all about speed and quality, and look to differentiate products in a way that creates new value.

Canada has always claimed our sovereignty over Hans Island. Denmark does the same. We have to dig out maps of 40 years ago and this sort of thing. ... We will take the time it takes in resolving it in a mature way.

But he is such an under-control, mature kid. He's just unflappable. What he went through last year and with the team just decimated around him, he's just a very poised young man. If it was a kid I really thought would be afraid of any situation, I might say something, but I don't think I need to. I won't say anything to (him).

He's still learning and he's getting more mature as times go by so, yes, he has a big future and he's the kind of horse that could end up performing very well for Hong Kong in international races.

He's smart and he's a very good skater. The question is if he's mature enough to play with the big boys at a tough position. It's a tough position to break into the NHL at when you are 20 years old. I think he'll have a strong camp and will make a serious bid to play in New York this season.

He's such a mature kid. He didn't look worried back there.

He's extremely mature for his age, and looks 15 or 16.

He's emotionally mature far below his 18 years. I've seen nothing in my conversations with Billy to see that he has a mature perception of the world or himself.

He's just a guy who came in and was a mature guy. He had his sights set on being the guy. And he has incredible balance and vision, but it was his maturity and focus that allowed him to do that.

Hopefully you mature as you get older. He's a bright kid. I think the lessons are now sinking in. I think he knows that as a celebrity, he has to protect himself. He can't go to the wrong places.

He's really mature, a lot more mature than most people think. I think every situation he stepped into, he's handled everything very well. I don't see anything changing.

He's really gone to the next level, he's much more mature and he's blocking a lot better.