If [the Yankees] didn't have to pay the luxury tax, it might have been a different story. As it was, for them to pay [Beltran] $17 million a year, it's actually more like $24 million. I would say it certainly was a parameter that created an issue in their pursuit of the player. |
If anything, I think we're playing too loose. Maybe we have the mentality that our schedule has only one playoff team in our remaining seven games or so. But this is the NHL, and every team has pride and every player has individual pride. There is no such thing as an easy game. |
If at the end of the day they say 'Mr. Tulloch you have to go' I will accept it with love and grace but until then I won't run and leave the youths. If they find a coach and say 'Mr. Tulloch go' I will move on just the same. It's a challenge and you just have to stand up to it. |
If companies like a Walgreen or a CVS would create a bigger Web site, it would motivate better online traffic, ... But the reason those companies don't create an online presence is that the cost of doing business by adding more warehouses and more shipping is too costly to run. |
Tony Blair (1953-) |
If he passes up the right to his press conference, then I will move heaven and earth to be at the debate. It's no problem, there have already been two and Berlusconi himself refused to take part in one last time round in 2001. It's not the end of the world if one of us refuses. |
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If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in that direction, then I do it. But that's not what I start out, necessarily, to do. Sometimes I may have an idea for a song - "Well, I'm going to write about a thing." |
If I could put a finger on why, then I would have been not struggling by now. I might be thinking too much, but it's just kind of hard not to think about it when it just keeps happening. It's just a matter of me having that one good game and everything is going to be all right. |
If I were a priest, I would not preach about God or sins (...); I would cite the poets, pray their verses, the most beautiful ones, (...) because poetry purifies the soul...and a beautiful poem - even those which are apart from God -, a beautiful poem always takes us to Heaven! |
If it all ended tomorrow, I would hope that people would write about captaining England 50 times, the 86 caps, winning the European Cup, six Premiership titles, two FA Cups, ... So many goals and games for United. And, hopefully, there is still a trophy with England and Madrid. |
If it's a kid who doesn't think he can play there because there's too much competition, then they don't want him. It helps them weed out the players that they don't want. They are recruiting a guy that they know is going to work and is not going to want something handed to him. |
If it's a situation like (2004) with Leon, then there's nothing to think about, because I know I'm going to get the ball. But you don't know now, you just don't know. That's the worst part because it bothers me when I think of coming back and you don't have a sense of security. |
If somebody like me, an absolute down-the-line centrist on this issue--my position on Israel/Palestine is identical to that of the Blair government--has so much difficulty publishing, it's a sign of how extremely limited and ethically rotten the media debate is in this country. |
Ben Kingsley (1943-) |