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The worst thing I could have done was panic and start screaming. Luckily, I got a pole right away. It was a bit long, but it was manageable.

Sara Renner

The first time she touched a pole was (Saturday) morning. And she just did miss 8 feet - she scraped her back on the way over.

Mark Dutro

Of course it's nice to be on the pole.

Pedro Lamy

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It was my mistake. I feel bad for the team. Today was our first opportunity to get on the pole and I made a little mistake. We felt we had a car to compete for the pole, but we'll try to get it (Saturday).

Alex Tagliani

Ali is so taken by the pole vault that I had to go get her for the hurdles.

Kevin Connell

I got him comfortable and I knew I had a lot of horse, so I waited to the quarter pole to take off.

Rafael Bejarano

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Vicki Baum

Suddenly, about two miles from the pole, we started to come across open water. One of the sledges ended up getting dunked in water, and some of the dogs as well.

Tom Avery

You heard so many horror stories, ... There was a gentleman holding onto his family and onto a pole. His wife was saying, 'Let us go.' There was nothing he could do but he held on and did everything he could to save his family.

Jason Kidd

And not behind a pole, either.

Sam Kennedy

Katie collided with a gate at the top of the course on Sunday morning, losing both her glove and her pole. It didn't matter to her at all - she still won.

Pat Callahan

An Expedition to the North Pole.

A. A. Hodge

As much as we do in sports to protect athletes, it's hard to figure why there aren't pads out there. That pole is a hard object. You don't want someone going face first into that.

Bruce Brown

We really picked it up from the half-mile pole in. Then I think by the time we got to the quarter pole, it was just a matter of how far I wanted to win by, and when I wanted to ask him.

Gary Stevens

If it's enough money, I'll play the North Pole.

Teddy Wilson

You can't put the green No. 11 car on the pole and expect to pass him on most nights. But we had a good rebound after the (poor) weekend we had at the Knoxville Nationals.

Jason Meyers

I fell maybe five times during the race, and I broke my pole, but I wasn't last. I passed the Costa Rican guy. I was so happy to finish.

Prawat Nagvajara

We picked up a lot of other points. We swept the javelin, picked up 18 points out of the pole vault.

Dave Ege

All the mast arms were delivered and the contractor has just about completed the underground conduit. They are expected to start installing the pole foundation in the second week of March ... and completion by July.

Scott Brunner

I always found it ironic that media people were low man on the totem pole, and yet they handled all the money. That's where things can go wrong in a big way.

Larry Chase

Is the pole okay?

Billy Bush

It takes some adjustment. You want to run as fast as you can with a 15-foot pole.

Mark Carrick

Al has done a great job. Basketball has never been too high on the totem pole in Chestnut Hill, but he has really brought it out there to the spotlight.

Bob Cousy

So we arrived, and planted our flag at the geographical South Pole. Thanks be to God!

Roald Amundsen

We're not going to make a special effort to go fast. Qualifying on the pole for a 24-hour race is a little like having a date with your sister, it doesn't mean anything.

Michael Colucci

It (requires) just a computer. You can do it remotely. You don't have to go out in the rain and climb a telephone pole anymore.

Jim Dempsey

We're now spending the greater part of our time, almost all of our time, going pole to pole and house to house.

Geisha Williams

We live in an island environment and termites are part of that environment. Even if there are some termites in a pole, it does not necessarily mean it's not sound.

Lynne Unemori

It's great to finally be standing on the North Pole. This mystical place is all that it is made out to be. It's incredible out here!!

Mike Horn

You keep seeing names getting marked off and marked off the lineup card and eventually it gets down to the last guy on the totem pole. I was near the bottom. We were running out of bodies on the bench. It came down to the last man standing.

Geoff Blum

It?s hard to conceal a 150-foot pole and not make it look ridiculous.

Jeremy Pate

Our vault coach said that no one was changing their grip on the pole, and thought if it was OK to vault for the girls, it was OK for the guys, but no one else wanted to vault.

Doug Flower

Witnesses saw him with his arm around her throat. He had bashed her head into a pole, breaking her front teeth ... her whole face was bleeding. Her hair was red from blood, her hands were bleeding.

Kristen Spieler

We believe that it's no coincidence that Titan's south polar cap of smog extends from the pole to 40 degrees south latitude -- exactly where the methane cloud band appears.

Caitlin Griffith

From the start, I wasn't going to let Bellamy Road go. I got after [Flower Alley] at the three-eighths pole and then I asked him and he took off. This is what it's all about.

John Velazquez

In light of the thing that has happened with the terrorists, we thought we would fly the U.S. flag on the big pole in honor of the dead. I'm against terrorism, as any good conservative would be.

Maurice Bessinger

Lowest on the totem pole, I hope, will be ongoing programs where we either create new ongoing programs or increase ongoing programs.

Randall Luthi

In the back, it took the electric pole -- split it in half, and threw it on the roof.

Judy Mazulaitis

She didn't like the dirt in her face and started jumping around. She started to close strongly at the three-eighths pole but then started jumping around again.

Rafael Bejarano

We catch a lot of flak, ... They give us a lot of ribbing over that. I just say, 'I'm just the low man on the totem pole.' I don't feel responsible. I don't know if we would have stayed if we would have avoided that or not.

George Davis

This is just a piece of garbage. I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole.

Ben Holmes

Here I was sitting at the top of the North Pole, thinking my whole family was dead.

Gene Poston

That's the thing that makes it unique. For example, in the field events like the pole vault, there won't be an individual champion like in other meets. It will be based on the combined performance of the team members.

Richard Rhodes

I've been working on a new pole and it takes time to adjust and get used to it.

Abbie Sutton

The old pole has been set free.

Louisa Smith

He was so comfortable. He finished out good, but the other horse drew away from us. Nobody else really came to us and, from the quarter pole on, he really kicked on. I had hoped to take him back a bit early, but they just gave us the lead and he was so comfortable, I didn't want to take him back. He did have a good trip.

Brice Blanc

Starting 16th is like starting from the pole for me.

Brian Tyler

We will always be connected because of the pole.

Louisa Smith

All events that require strength, there's a myth that girls can't compete. Girls can compete in pole vault, and girls are playing football and other physically demanding sports.

Jessica Daigneault

In the whole mix of Internet advertising, we feel like we are sitting in the pole position.

Dan Rosensweig

They were drag racing down the hill. The driver lost control and hit a utility pole. It slammed [Jimmy] on the head.

Jim Brown

We had 26, if we had done the pole vault we might have had eight or 10 more points. That would have moved us up.

Libby Ouellette

I was a little concerned we'd get trapped. They all kind of kicked away at the three-eighths pole, and David said that opened it up. I wasn't sure if she'd get them, but at the eighth pole I was more assured.

Jim Cassidy

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

Bob Richards

But when the truck came in (to Fischer), it was loaded down. When it came out, it was raised up enough that the phone cable got caught. . . . He couldn't move because it could've pulled the pole or lines.

Bill Jenkins

Most of the people, especially those who haven't been at Ford very long, are meeting with the union and finding out where they're at on the totem pole.

Jason Murray

That's really the long pole in the tent.

Brant Sponberg

We need to show that Fairbanks and North Pole are solidly behind keeping Eielson. This is a big part of the race to save our base.

Jim Dodson

Sometimes the flag gets to the very top and she lets go before I can secure it and the flag comes down the pole. She just laughs and laughs.

Patrick Hanlon

We followed the game plan (to be on the pace). It went real well. We had some concern at the eighth pole, but my horse fought back real hard.

Mark Guidry

If I crashed into a telephone pole and (assistant coach) Steve Barnes was coach, the program would be fine.

Larry Eustachy

I'd cut an arm off to win that gold medal. The pole vault would be difficult but that's a rubbish event for me anyway!

Dean Macey

We were really fighting until the end. Even so close to the pole, I wasn't so sure we would make it.

Tom Avery

We fished Saturday and Sunday all day on a flats boat, one of those where the guy had a pole. I was on the platform casting.

Duckmann Jr

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

Marlon Brando

Every since I've been here, we've been at the bottom of the totem pole in this area, with Maryland, GW and Georgetown. We don't get much publicity, so we're enjoying it right now. We're trying to make it last.

Jai Lewis

The concrete pole was fine for staying up. It's got steel rebar in it.

Bill Jenkins

One of dad's favorite tricks was to stand a kitchen match on a clothesline pole and light it by shooting the head..

Dave Kramer

I knew we had it at the wire. I was wondering why it took so long to put up the finish. Now, at the eighth pole I did not know I had it. But Dale's a great horseman. They're always ready and always have that little bit extra when you need it.

Mark Guidry

He was a little more aggressive going to the pole, but once he got going he was laid back like the last time.

Ramon Dominguez

I expected to win the pole vault, and I expected to do well in the triple jump, but I didn't think I was going to win.

Ali Lacey

They're in pole position, i.e. in 3rd position, for the Champions League.

Mark Lawrenson

Yet on the other side, you have guys with their shoulder pole and two buckets of manure, just like they've done for a thousand years.

Tim Dufault

I thought the pole was plenty, ... When something like this happens, it makes you feel pretty good. But I don't want to die just yet.

Johnny Pesky

This is not how I imagined the day would end. Even after we had our pole position taken away from us, I was confident of a good result. Everyone knew we had the fastest car and there were only two drivers in front of me, but it was not to be.

Stephen Simpson

An electromagnetic fishing pole.

Robert Clark

We had no faith in (Cook) whatever. He was not even good for a day's work, and the idea of his making such an astounding claim as having reached the Pole was so ludicrous that, after our laugh, we dropped the matter altogether.

Matthew Henson

He literally carried the league. He gave us recognition and acceptance when we were at the bottom of the totem pole in professional sports.

Bob Cousy

They [Constellation] are trying to take the pole position in the wine business.

Tom Pirko

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.

Ernest Shackleton

He loses control of the van he was driving and crashes into a utility pole, which is just outside a cemetery.

Elizabeth Dunigan

Bunch of rocks, couple hills in the background. Now we're landing near a pole. I mean, I don't know what we're going to see.

Edward Weiler

I am hell-bent for the South Pole-God willing and crevasses permitting.

Edmund Hillary