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I've qualified second I don't know how many times. Qualifying isn't my strong suit. -- Greg Biffle
Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it. -- Robbie Keane
Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest. -- Natalie du Toit
Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that. -- Sebastian Vettel
There is no secret, once we go to qualifying, we all seem to enjoy it. Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that. -- Sebastian Vettel
Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day. -- Alex Berenson
It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath. -- Sterling Marlin
We are still confident as a team that we will make it through to the final Cup qualifying round. -- Cobi Jones
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. -- Warren E. Burger
I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games. -- Taufik Hidayat
Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona. -- Larry Dixon
I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time. -- Stephanie Rice
I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California. -- Cobi Jones
When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople. -- Jenson Button
Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I don't know about others; I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible. -- Romain Grosjean
If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions. -- Bruno Senna
You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-kart,' then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students. -- Mario Andretti
Boston is the cream of the crop of the marathon world. It has such history that you feel such honor just being a part of it. All the other races have pacers to get you to a Boston qualifying time. -- Summer Sanders
I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school. -- Alton Brown
Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then? -- Oscar Pistorius
The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators. -- Nigel Mansell
To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London. -- Paula Radcliffe
I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement. -- Nader al-Masri
I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final. -- Rafer Johnson
Repentance, prayer, and pondering over the scriptures are essential parts of our qualifying for the gifts of the Spirit in our priesthood service. Further magnification of our power to serve will come as we respond with faith to go forward in our callings with the Holy Ghost to help us. -- Henry B. Eyring
Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve. -- Tom Wolfe
Maybe Formula One should have an inversion rule in qualifying. -- Bob Varsha
Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans. -- Hank Johnson
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. -- Abraham Lincoln
Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today. -- Mahatma Gandhi
.......the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. -- James Traficant
He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another. -- William Hazlitt
I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis. -- Gareth Bale
It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice. -- Charles Glover Barkla
The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches. -- Michel Patini
I'm excited to win a pole at Atlanta, one of the tracks you look forward to qualifying at every single year, and really happy to beat Ryan Newman, who is hard to beat here. -- Kasey Kahne

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