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We're right back to where we were before the season started. We've got to be able to prove ourselves. I think it's very, very evident, we're not a Top 5, Top 10, Top 15 team.

We're looking for a little more offense at the top of the lineup now. We're trying to find a way to score some runs on a consistent basis.

We're not here to make a statement. It's good the results are showing up at the track. The last few years we've been working extremely hard. Toyota worked hard with us, and unfortunately, Honda was always at the top of the game. Right now things are more balanced, so we are very happy those two years paid off.

We're not going to win all 82 games straight. Guys get tired, sometimes we lose our focus. We lose games. But right now we're on top of our game, I believe. We need to continue to do that to succeed. We want to win and be able to go into the break right. You feel better.

We've got, in our top three, a lot of experience. They thrive on the pressure.

We've got businesses on the North Shore who have seen 30 per cent property tax increases on top of 40 per cent the year before and 30 per cent the year before that, then you're hitting them with another basically property tax. . . . It's just the straw that broke the camel's back, it's too much.

We've got a young team this year, but my seniors stepped up today. Amos did really good today and so did Travis Davis. Amos is one of the top 99ers around. They both do a great job. They live in the weight room.

We've got a solid middle of the lineup. And we've got a lot of speed at the top of the order. We need to change our approach to what the pitcher is giving us. For me, I stand off the plate, welcoming the outside pitch. I know if it is inside I can just react to it.

We've got a national academy, we've got county academies, we've got is a natural development of our top coaches,

We want to prove we can compete in the top half of the Premiership, and that challenge continues on Sunday afternoon,

We want to prepare our team mentally and physically against the best teams in Ohio. This is an important week. The Stellar gives us the opportunity to play some top teams.

We have (second-place) Southwest this coming Wednesday, then Sweetwater and Eastlake. All three will be tough, tough games, so hopefully we can finish on top and go for the No. 2 seed.

We have to go out there and prove ourselves to where they can't say we're not a top-five team. You don't want everybody out there saying, 'Oh, you're the No. 1 team.' We want to come out and prove to ourselves that we can be a top team.

We have to get at least two state champions and two others have to place in the top four. If that happens we'll be in a good place for winning (the team title).

We have to get a junior hockey franchise put together from top to bottom. We're looking forward to it, but that year and a bit is going to go by in a hurry.

We have no indication that the cartoon row has had a negative effect on trade and business there. The top executives in the region are highly educated and have close relations with their German counterparts. They are not affected by the conflict.

We have some big hitters and our top defensive players are back. We also have good leadership and (the players) are working hard. We surprised some teams last year and I think we'll surprise teams again this year.

What the top tier earns is the engine that pulls everyone else along.

Whenever you have a big meet, balance really helps. If you have just a top individual, he can't bring the whole team up through the field. A balanced team will make everyone move up in the field.

When your top goal scorer goes out, everybody sees it.

When FCC starting gun goes off on Monday and indeed (joint ownership) is allowed in the top 100 markets, they can formalize deals that have been discussed, ... Even with these gains, there's still some room for these stocks to run. For a number of months, investors weren't sure if regulators were going to come to a decision in June.

When he gets that puck, he makes things happen. It's pretty special to watch him play the way he does. When he's at the top of his game, he's up there with the top players in the league.

We want it to be a team effort from top to bottom, and we want to give the fans a good show. I think everyone will tell you that the traditional (tournament) title is more special because that's where the sport started, but this is special because we've been so inconsistent with injuries, and different line-ups and we have been able to go undefeated so far, even with all those things to overcome.

We want everybody to be one of the top players in the league, and it's not out of the realm of possibly to do that. We've got all the ingredients. It's just a matter of doing it.

We were a tight unit and didn't concede many goals. But I think we were realistic that we were never going to be in the top four for the rest of the season.

We were a sick team at the start of it, and then I thought we became a banged-up team as well, ... A third of the team is feeling like it should be in bed. We need a bye right now. It was a long preseason. And now we're a little banged up on top of that. I just need to get these guys a break.

We were trying to squeeze her, one (defender) over the top of her and one behind her. We took away the entry pass; they weren't getting the ball to her. She was getting the offensive rebound.

We want to take bull riding into the mainstream and be recognized as one of the top sports in the world. If I'd said that five years ago, everyone would've laughed at me, but we've got a five year plan and the growth potential, and I believe we can be a major-league sport.

We want to send our seniors out on top so we're going to treat it like it was the Rose Bowl or the national championship game.

We were in a very vulnerable area for this weather to develop on top of us.

We were hoping to try for a top five in the points and now we're trying to hold on for a top 10,

We'll be fighting for a top position among the nations and our competitors have put high expectations on themselves.

We'll be around the top of our division.

Wells Fargo is committed to helping Native Americans achieve the dream of homeownership. We're proud to be one of the nation's top mortgage lenders to Native Americans, and honored to have a role in this important financial education program that will enable even more Native Americans to buy a home.

We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one more member.

We are already at the top end but I think the market is a little edgy in front of the CPI number.

The regular season doesn't matter too much. But when you go into their building to start, it's going to be difficult. Their lineup is very solid from top to bottom.

The registration work will start in February, we hope the event will bring more top guns this year.

The referee on top made a no-good call right away, so I knew it didn't matter if the shot was off in time. That's a tough way to lose. In the worst-case scenario, the game would've gone into overtime.

Women's tennis is at such a high level now that any of the top 10 or 20 players could give me a tough match. Martina is on her comeback and no doubt will reach the top again but I don't have a specific rival here.

Women relate to Ivana because she suffered. If she is over the top with her wardrobe, or the things she says, it is forgiven because she has been beaten down and she has risen to the top. America loves an underdog.

We accomplished a lot of goals, especially winning the NCC after finishing second the last two years. All the teams that beat us were all ranked in the top 20.

We also understand that the percentage points and the rankings can change weekly. What we have to do is concentrate on winning. That's the only thing we have control over. It's only October, and what we want to do is to be one of the top two teams in December.

We also understand that it's a competitive marketplace and our customers count on us to have the 'hot' toys at the top of their holiday lists and to be the low-price leader in their community for those toys.

We are going to make each hotel obscenely rich and obscenely beautiful and position them at the top off their markets.

We are going to have to do something before we really wear out our top guys with all of the power-plays we're now seeing. If this trend continues and you apply that to an 82-game schedule, that extra unit is really going to come in handy, unless of course the players adapt their game to the new rules and spend less time in the box.

This will place Sun Vista at the top of the list in Tampa Bay. Everybody who is anybody bid on this.

This was as good of a team effort as we've had in a long time. I'm very proud of them. This is not going to go down in history as an earth-shaking, dramatic top 10 win for Iowa State women's basketball, but I don't think you can tell the kids that and I don't think you can tell the coaches that. It was special.

We want to go -- there's no training in New Zealand to be able to reach our goal of a top 20 at the next Olympics.

We want to close this thing out with these guys this weekend. This is still key. We still have top guys visiting.

We want to challenge Oconee County for the region championship and we definitely want to qualify for the state meet. Our goal at state is to finish in the top five for either the girls or boys.

We did not do one thing that was unethical. Not one. This is one of those things that you have to work through. As long as you know that every card you're playing is on top of the table, then you smile and go on about your business and let the chips fall, because you know they're going to fall right at the end of the day.

We did not come here to run outside of the top 10,

We did it at home a week ago and (Brian) McFall did it yesterday with his home run in the top of the 12th. We did it again tonight. (Valentin) had a great day and it was a good way to cap it off.

We did everything we needed to do and then just held our own for a little bit and gradually got tighter and tighter.a top ten is exactly what we needed.

We deserved to finish top because we have more points than the other teams. We done a good job, kept another clean- sheet and created some chances on the counter-attack. It was important for us to control the midfield. However, this became more difficult in the second half when Chelsea started playing long ball but the team worked hard in defense and we must enjoy this moment.

What we're finding is, in the case of our space shuttle coverage or Live 8 coverage, people are getting more sophisticated. They are comfortable having their own control. They don't necessarily need a whole lot of editing on top -- they want information, but they can be in control of how they consume that information. They don't necessarily need a host guiding them.

What we learned in China Aviation Oil is that management who initially was doing a terrific job can go off the tracks and if you aren't on top of the situation on an ongoing basis you can end up losing a lot of money.

What we kept hearing really validated our event concept -- the fan is at the top of our priority list. There is too much competition for their entertainment needs, so we have to give them an unforgettable experience... NOT just a concert.

There are names in the hat and I think the next 48 hours are critical in hoping the top names I want decide to come to Edinburgh.

There are more mainstream advertisers going on-line that ever before. On top of that, you've got a bunch of on-line store fronts up this fourth quarter that you didn't have a year ago.

There are more channels, more networks and frankly, the most important thing, NBC is in a different position with respect to competition. They don't have the top shows on television. They have to program against the top shows. The fact that 'American Idol' beats NBC isn't that surprising.

There are moments that we lost our fight, but I think from top to bottom that was the hardest I have seen us play.

There are some significant differences between the top category searches in print versus online Yellow Pages, as a higher percentage of online references are credited to the headings of hotels, florists and schools, ... However, restaurants continue to take the most popular heading slot for both the print and online Yellow Pages.

The only time we saw visible spoilage at the walls was when we failed to get a good seal between the sidewall and top sheets of film.

There are four layers of threads on the top and three layers of threads on the side.

There are enormous pressures to be extremely productive and at the top of the heap.

We decided a couple of religious-discrimination issues would be at the top of our agenda.

We're playing as well as we have all year. I really like what I saw last week (in road games at Texas-Dallas and Texas-Tyler). Everybody was on top of their game. Hopefully, we didn't peak a week early.

We tried passing over the top and that didn't work; we just got killed inside. We couldn't make up for that size.

We've been juggling our lineup, just trying to get consistency from top to bottom. We found a little bit of that tonight.

We've been juggling our lineup from week to week. This stretch does look favorable. But we have to play at the top of our game.

We've been in too many games where we have the lead and a chance to put them away and don't, especially against No. 4. It's just one game. But let's face it. This is the Packers. This is the team that has won the division as long as I can remember. I know we're all tired of losing those close ones and looking up and seeing green and yellow on top of the division.

We've been here (playing a top seed) before, but it was always in the first or second round. The kids have to be able to focus and still enjoy it. One-and-out basketball is still one-and-out basketball, whether it is the first game or the third.

We're absolutely thrilled to welcome Ray back to our team. He's a proven All-Star and one of the top players in the NBA. He's been a tremendous asset for the Sonics, both on and off the court.

We're absolutely thrilled. He's a proven all-star and one of the top players in the NBA.

We ran into problems getting the drawings and permitting together. A lot of the people involved with the project had so much work on their hands, on top of this.

We ran a pick-and-roll off the top and I am running the baseline and I just got an open shot and I just shot it. That play is really tough to guard if you don't know what's coming.

We ran a man-to-man defense. We were able to take out their best shooter and then match up against some of their other top players.

We're a team, right now, that can't handle when people are out. I think our starting five would be pretty doggone good. I don't know if our top 10 or 11 would match up with other teams.

We're a pretty good goal-scoring team, top to bottom. Parse is the high profile guy, but we've got a group of gifted scorers.

We're a much better basketball team when she stays on the floor, obviously. She's just so well-rounded at both ends of the floor. I think she's one of the top players in the conference. It's exciting to see her numbers reflect that.

We head to Sandown encouraged by our recent test and with two strong cars. We have put as much work as possible into our preparation for this long and challenging race. Success at the Sandown 500 is a very important step towards achieving our goal of a top five finish in the Championship.

We hope to finish in the top three or four in the league. It will depend on our ability to stay healthy and the development of the younger girls.

We hit the ball well tonight, not just at the top of the order. Top to bottom we hit the ball well.

We hit the ball well, but defensively we had six errors. And you can throw six or seven mental errors on top of that. We were not very sharp and not prepared to play.

Yesterday I was on the court with Roger Federer, so I can bring something like that or a conversation I had with him to this clinic. I communicate that to players here in Montana and then they're a little bit closer to the top of the game and what big time players are thinking about what it takes to become a better tennis player.

Yes, I think it's a good thing. If what we think about the heat is true, we're very on top of it. ... Certainly we want to make sure that we monitor it every step of the way.

We didn't want to play for a tie. We felt a tie would have been just as disappointing as a loss. So we said 'go for it' and put three up top and three in the back.

We didn't want to go out with a major blowout. Me and James, this is our last few games, and if we can get a win against one of the top teams in the country, that's going to be an inspiration for the guys coming back next year.

We didn't want to come in here overconfident. We knew they were going to be really well-prepared to play against us and that they were going to be on top of their game.

We didn't take ourselves out of it. We've got to keep the individuals on top winning, and the guys on the bottom have got to come back and win and stay in the tournament. We've got to knock some guys off. If we wrestle to our seed, we're not going to do much.

We have reason to believe that top aides that have access to the Oval Office have been orchestrating a conspiracy to intimidate members of Congress by using their past lives as an embarrassment to intimidate,

We have reached a level with our program that we should be in the Top 5 in the nation every year. Our goal is to have an Olympic-level program. We have the talent to be that if our kids are mentally tough, work hard and are disciplined.

We have balance at the top and in the middle. A lot of the girls are club swimmers. They like the (team) program and like what's going on.

We've shown what this team is capable of doing. We're capable of putting together a string of wins, especially against the top teams in the league.

We've seen kids take over spots. We've seen kids put on 25 to 30 pounds and get faster. Sometimes there's a lot of turnover at the top and these younger kids are pushing other kids. It's good for our program.

We've seen everything but the kitchen sink being thrown at the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act remains a top priority to get enacted. To the extent people don't focus on that or move away from it or try and mix the two (issues), that's not helpful to moving the Patriot Act forward.

We've seen a significant change in Scotland in that there are lots of people wanting to buy into the top end of the market, but there's not a lot of supply.

The expectations here are very high and we know that coming in. We're going to try our hardest every year to be on top of the Big Ten and play as a team to be there.