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It is an understatement to say that you can win many games turning the ball over six times. Our guys could have just as easily given up, but instead we handled our adversity very well.

Blaine Hathcock

You are on the hook for an audit for three years. But if the IRS finds something like a substantial understatement of income they can go back six years.

Bill Farmer

To say that I am happy is an understatement.

Martin Allen

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Russell Page

It was no good really. I struggled from beginning to end. Something is wrong with the bike and we daren't change to the second, as we hadn't run that other one yet. So to say I am disappointed is an understatement. Every time I entered a corner, right or left, it was chattering, and I was so sideways. It has to be the bike, because James and I have such a similar race set-up, it's just not funny.

Karl Muggeridge

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

Stefan Kanfer

Eclectic would be an understatement.

Les Garland

To say he's extremely well regarded is an understatement.

Richard Posner

To say that we agonized over this decision would be an understatement. We clearly wanted to play the game in Louisiana and look at every possible alternative.

Paul Hoolahan

Right now, we're still addressing what the implications are on the shuttle launch schedule. If I don't know what those are, that's an understatement.

Michael Griffin

This was a big win. In fact, to use 'big' is an understatement. It was bigger than we can adequately describe.

Mike Austin

To say she was a pioneer I think is an understatement.

Jane Forbes Clark

To say this is going to be a challenging year, that's an understatement.

Criss Nadolson

We are not into hype, but not to categorize 2005 as our strongest performance year since our turnaround would be too much of an understatement.

Jim Jenness

To say that this is going to be big is just a massive understatement. I don't know how much money we'll make, but I would say the word is billions.

Brian Kemp

A.J. and I were about as competitive as two people can be. Actually, competitive is a big understatement. It could be in golf, poker, basketball - we just compete. That's a big reason why we both have done so well in competitive situations. It's a huge part of us.

Ryan Hawk

They're taking down all the ones that ran up so fast, ... This is a good, solid correction. It's taking out a lot of money. To say a correction was overdue is an understatement.

Paul Cox

To say that our performance away at Nottingham wasn't one of our greatest would be an understatement. It will be difficult again because the side is so disjointed through injury. We've lost Paul Knight again, who has an infected groin, so he's not available.

Phil Maynard

The RUC went in hamfistedly, hamfistedly is actually an understatement of the way they went in. People were beaten in their own gardens, there were plastic bullets fired, kids had to be evacuated because the water cannon was being imported.

Gerry Kelly

I loved every minute of it. But to say I had a little stress would be an understatement.

John Abell

We had no inkling this was going to happen and to say we're disappointed is an understatement. The landscape changed when the system was reviewed last year but this is still a kick in the teeth for the North-West.

Jim Cumbes

Right now, we're still addressing what the implications are on the shuttle launch schedule, and if I say I don't know what those are, that's an understatement.

Michael Griffin

That's a bit of an understatement. The staff just gave up and couldn't restrain him forever. 'They let him go in frustration' would be a better way of saying it.

Gerald Butler

To say I find these results unacceptable would be a gross understatement.

William Carpenter

To say that GM is bending over backwards to sell cars in general and cars with navigation systems in particular is an understatement. But they're just throwing money away if they don't get out in front of customers and tell their story effectively.

Phil Magney

We've come a long way. The second half, obviously, hasn't gone the way we wanted. That's an understatement. But we don't want to throw it all away these last few weeks. We've got to finish strong.

Gary Bennett

I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement.

John Hurt

These are some of the most conservative judges in the country. Ginsburg, in particular, used to head the antitrust division under the Reagan administration, so to say that he is antitrust-savvy is an understatement; the man knows antitrust law backwards and forwards.

Robert Lande

Words can't describe what he means not just to the secondary but to this team. He brings confidence, energy, faith. Anything you say about him is an understatement.

Rod Hood

To say it is a complex and large-scale undertaking is an understatement and I cannot formally announce the project until all of the crucial elements are secure.

Baz Luhrmann

To say things have been crazy is an understatement.

Karen Cooper

To say we're unhappy with the performance of the team is a gross understatement.

Laurence Gilman

The market for pilots and other airline professionals is soft, and that's an understatement. They played it down to the wire, but there is still hope for Delta, and we will see what happens next few months.

Anthony Sabino

To see the kids succeed and want to play at the next level makes us feel good. I'm thrilled with all of the hard work they have put in. To say I am proud of these guys is an understatement.

Tom Locascio

To say it's slow is an understatement ? it's really a sign that people are playing it close to the vest. I think people really want to hear what Cisco has to say.

Larry Lawler

To say I am disappointed is a huge understatement. We were not in it. We were hammered at the contact area.

Dai Young

Extreme disappointment is an understatement. This jury found more liability for matt carter than they did for Alford Morgan.

Bruce Poston

To say that this is an embarrassment for the courts is an understatement.

Karen Dalton

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.

J. B. Priestley

To say we did well is an understatement. We really dominated the tournament. The champions we had ? not just from Mount Sinai ? I think are going to represent Division II at the tournament in a very positive fashion. We have some very tough kids and I think we're going to do well in the states.

Matt Armstrong

He shouldn't be overlooked, but I'm afraid he will be because the film came out too late in the year, just for a one-week run, and voters probably haven't had time to catch up with it. It is Hopkins' best performance in years, a masterpiece of understatement, and it's a crime that no one seems to be acknowledging it.

Stephen Farber

She was ahead of her time. Being both black and a woman in those days was not easy. To say she was a pioneer I think is an understatement.

Jane Forbes Clark

To say people are upset is an understatement. FSA offices are institutions in these communities, institutions that are providing vital services helping farmers and others in the related agricultural industries wade through the bureaucracy of loan payments, drought and disaster assistance and other farm programs.

Tim Johnson