Graded Quotes

You'd see something and you're thinking like, 'Well, I've got to see here, even though I see the ball, I could make the play, but I'll stay here because I'm going to get graded down (by coaches) for this,' - Lance Briggs

You never know for sure until you go over there and run in a race, but it certainly appears as though he likes the grass... He worked well and we worked him with a couple of graded stakes winners on the turf. He showed us it was certainly worth a try. - Todd Pletcher

You figure out what it is and then you spell it phonetically on your sheets. So the only way I read it is phonetically on my sheet because, fortunately, I'm not graded on spelling. I spell it phonetically and then practice like crazy during the week. - Mike Keith

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. - Mary Wollstonecraft

With the 737, even though they've upgraded the length, the avionics, and the wings, the cross-section of the plane remains the same as it was forty years ago. - Andrew Miller

While we continue to believe Smithfield is undervalued and merits our 'buy' rating, it is less undervalued than when we upgraded the stock in May. - David Nelson

When you have the environment degraded, it is always so that we are going to fight over the few resources that are left. - Wangari Maathai

When we upgraded PeopleSoft in early July, it appeared to us that after a long period of darkness, there was light at the end of the tunnel. [With the subsequent quarter in July] we believed this case much more strongly. This quarter however is, in our view, a landmark quarter as the company has now clearly emerged from the tunnel. - Neil Herman