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Yan Xiaohong

There were points in the race I thought I had it. But you never know how the other people are going to come into these races, what kind of shape they're in. We did that long uphill three times and I just didn't have the legs for it. When I started, I was feeling great, very excited and ready to go.

Beckie Scott

Tonight, it was rough for us at the start. Richards was killing us. We knew what to do (to stop her). The coaches told us, but we weren't doing it. When we figured out what to do, it went uphill from there.

Dellena Criner

We have an uphill fight now. That was a winnable game on the road.

Duggar Baucom

Brands will succeed on the Web this holiday season. Companies beginning to get exposure right now will have a major uphill fight to get brand recognition.

Allen Weiner

The challenger has an uphill fight. If he's lucky enough to win and gets to the general election, he's going to be broke.

David Souter

I wish him well. He's got an uphill struggle ahead of him.

Sen Richard Sears

It's been an uphill battle the whole way. I'm the only guy (at the combine) from Boise State and one of the few guys from Alaska. It's been a long trip to get to this point. It's a long way. For a guy like me, coming from a small town, it's a lot of work.

Daryn Colledge

We have some things to point to that we think are successful. ... That being said, we still believe that there's a double standard. We still believe it's an uphill battle, it's not a level playing field, and there is evidence of racial bias in the hiring cycle.

Cyrus Mehri

Is it an uphill battle? Absolutely. But important principles are stake.

Mark Berman

Things are so refreshing it seems like we've been running in molasses uphill for four years. Things are starting to be much more positive....

Maryanne Ingemanson

I personally believe that the police routinely violate an individual's rights and as defense attorneys we're always fighting an uphill battle. In my opinion, it is extremely admirable for a judge to have the courage to suppress evidence in a serious case like this.

Kevin Mahoney

This year was an amazing effort by the uphill group. Road Conditions were slower with washboard sections, loose chunky rocks in the construction areas, as if 3,000 feet of elevation gain and 12 km of climbing wasn't enough.

Alan Ross

We've been working since the late '80s to get 49 widened. This will be an uphill battle.

Dan Landon

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'

William Ralph Inge

Other than last year, with Meijer and Coca-Cola, we didn't have a clue what we were doing and never even expected to be in the 500, and we've always managed to put a deal together. It has been an uphill battle ... but we're not giving up.

Sam Schmidt

You've got a big 600 meter uphill run (the peak of the hill is just under the 2.5 mile mark of the 3.1-mile 5K), ... When you hit (the bottom of the hill) you've got to go, or you're going to lose time.

Jason Anderson

It's been going downhill instead of uphill, ... We think it's the location. If we knew the answer, I'd probably not be closing it. We tried everything we could.

Lloyd Jones

We can't panic. It will be an uphill climb for us. We feel we're still in there. We get a win next week, go to 5-4 and we can get back in this.

Hank Fraley

This is very much an uphill struggle.

Michael Hudson

I think it's an uphill battle all the way.

Wade Duty

This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'

Dave Ramsey

It's hard, and you know it's an uphill battle to get to the majors. You really have to love it to keep going. But we do.

Tyler Bolick

They don't want to think that, Bob. And they know that that would be a real uphill fight for the Democrats, but they're beginning to believe that this smells really, really badly for them, and they're very, very worried about it now because they know they cannot depend on this president and his coattails any longer.

Gloria Borger

It's been the same story every game: We can't get out of the first inning without giving up runs, and we get absolutely nothing in our half of the first. We're trying to climb and scratch uphill the whole game.

Lynn Williams

At this point, we have an uphill battle.

Ranit Schmelzer

Our concern is if the Santa Anas subside, this fire could turn into a topography-driven fire and race uphill into mountain communities. So we're really concentrating a lot of fire suppression efforts on the northern perimeter of this Old Fire to keep it down.

Jim Wright

To fill up their reservoirs, you'd have to over-ride their system. And then you're pushing water uphill.

Norm Meunier

I don't think we realized how far gone we were in people's eyes, ... We pretty much had to prove ourselves over again, from our fans to people in the music industry. It's been an uphill fight. Nobody handed anything to us on this record.

Jacoby Shaddix

I didn't tell the kids this, but pulling into today this was really a must-win for us if we were going to stay in the conference race. You go down two games to them and have to go to their place later and you're not out of it yet, but you've really built yourself an uphill battle.

Mark Vogel

I had a few options, but I just thought in my heart this is where I wanted to be, because the trend hadn't been going uphill.

Bobby Labonte

If we come out of those three games on the right side of the ledger it will be a huge plus, and anything could happen then. But if we lose all three it will be an uphill battle we want to avoid that.

Phil Keinzley

This is the battle of the titans. This deal, believe it or not, is not in the bag . . . In fact, it's still an uphill fight for Sears Holdings.

Ron Mayers

He and his people were hoping for 40 to 45 percent. Getting only 29 percent means they have a big road uphill.

Manuel Saavedra

Without a reliable supply of low-cost AIDS drugs - made possible because medicine patents did not exist in India for many years - national governments and treatment providers will be faced with an uphill battle.

Pehrolev Pehrson

It's a lot tougher, right from the get-go. It's all uphill on Genesee Street and to Oneida Square and up Oneida Street. Then you have a gradual incline (along the Parkway). That's the flattest part of the course, but it isn't long.

Paul Humphrey

I think there's still a positive vibe. I hope that people realize it's an uphill battle for an expansion team, and that it's going to take a little time.

Paul Day

Going uphill, you do have to compensate by running slower. Rather than checking your watch (on a hill), go for the same perceived effort as you ran on the flats. I find the best way to do this is to monitor your breathing. If you are breathing more heavily going up the hill, shorten your stride.

Jeff Galloway

It's not as simple or clear-cut as healthy versus unhealthy. However, [donated food] reflects what one finds in a grocery store ... attempting to change people's nutrition and eating habits is like pushing water uphill.

Bill Ewing

We know it will be an uphill battle. Establishing a state minimum wage higher than the federal wage will actually hurt job creation and the very people it's supposed to help, the entry-level workers.

Farrell Quinlan

This was a win that we needed really bad. We're still working out way out of our little slump, but we're on the uphill climb out of that.

Jennifer Long

A lot of my experience in climbing, not to mention carrying a heavy pack uphill long distances, comes from my service in the Marines [during Operation Desert Storm].

Tony Carenzo

I'd like to say it's German and they sing German songs on their porch, but it's not true, ... You see ethnic neighborhoods go downhill. This one went uphill.

Fred Schmidt

We have to prove ourselves. We've never finished less than second in league in our history. That's an uphill battle from here. We'll see what we're made of.

Tony Rossi

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

Jonathan Edwards

The final circuit was tough as we had to climb an uphill section three times. I'm happy for the victory but I'm exhausted.

Robbie Mcewen

We're 0-3 in the Big Ten now. It's a bit of an uphill battle and we need to do anything and everything to get of the hole.

Sujay Lama

Getting relief on that basis, it is harder to imagine a steeper uphill battle than that.

David Dow

Up-and-down races tend to be so much closer (than uphill). I was just so pleased to build up a nice lead early and after that it got a little lonely at times.

Jonathan Wyatt

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

Theodore H. White

We've had an uphill struggle all weekend, so we're really excited we made the race.

Johnny Miller

I didn't think it was going to carry the lake. I was actually relieved it was in the bunker, and I had a nice uphill lie.

Johnson Wagner

I think they have their candidate. They're happy with Rudy Giuliani. Why should I fight an uphill battle at this point?

Joseph Dioguardi

This year, we had our slump in the beginning, and it's better to have in the beginning than at the end. I think we've been going uphill since, and we've been showing people that we can be a force come tournament time.

Craig Smith

We knew we had an uphill battle against a good Arlington team.

Todd Parker

Merck is going to fight an uphill battle every time they step in the courtroom, ... They have a long legal harangue ahead of them.

Jon Fisher

We're still relatively small. But I think that's going to start to change because they're opening a new middle school next year in Geneva so we'll have two middle school programs. (Numbers) have always been an uphill battle for us, and then someone gets hurt and that makes it tough with a hole in the lineup.

Mike Graham

It was designed to attempt to make an example of me. But I think they have an uphill battle to prove those infractions.

Wayne Svaren

We did things hockey players don't ordinarily do, but all the guys took it well. It was very physical. Imagine pushing an 8,000-pound car uphill. I think it made us closer. You learn a lot about each other. Nobody quit. You're not ashamed to look each other in the eye after that.

Darius Kasparaitis

It's going to be an uphill battle. They don't have a brand name or much economies of scale.

Koichi Hariya

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

John Gunther

For Tiger, so much of it is 'How does this course prepare me to try to win my next major.' He's always working on his game to be able to do that. It's an uphill battle, but having Buick is a huge help. We're just going to keep working on it.

Jonathan Gruber

The road to success runs uphill.

Willie Davis

It will be an uphill battle, but we've been fighting an uphill battle for the last three weeks. So far we've succeeded.

Gary Chapman

You have to have a desire to want to play and continue to battle. Sometimes, with an uphill battle like this one, you have passengers. It's hard because it's a tough game with a lot of adversity. Some guys just weren't up to the challenge.

Jonathon Shockey

Things can only go uphill from here. They can't go any lower than that.

Joe Mays

I remember a lot of guys saying in the NBA everybody just sort of plays and then the last six or seven minutes you decide the game. Well, to tell you the truth, the team that shows up to play earliest normally wins. I totally disagree with that. So many games are lost in the first quarter. You get down 15 and it's such an uphill battle.

Sarunas Jasikevicius

What really hurt us was that poor start to the third quarter. They made their shots while we missed ours and turned the ball over. It was just an uphill battle from that point on.

Dave Witzig

By the time we got ready, we were so far behind that it was an uphill battle. But I'm so proud of this team and the character of this team and this coaching staff. ... We just had a good ride.

Mickey Hardy

You have to position the ball underneath the holes, because the greens are really quick and really good. In order to take advantage of this course, you have to be able to putt aggressive and that means keeping the ball underneath the hole and having uphill putts where you can stay aggressive all the way throughout a round.

Bowen Sargent

The black coaching candidates were at least as strong, if not stronger, than those who were selected. Each team could say what their justifications were, but. . . it still shows that there's an uphill battle for African-American coaches.

Cyrus Mehri

I don't think we realized how far gone we were in people's eyes. We pretty much had to prove ourselves over again, from our fans to people in the music industry. It's been an uphill fight. Nobody handed anything to us on this record. It's been us just slugging it out in the trenches and playing shows and proving to people every day that this band is legit and we're not going away.

Jacoby Shaddix

It will be uphill for him.

Dan Walters

The kids going (today) have an uphill battle. That was a huge pillar we lost. But he's a 17-year-old kid and predicting what they'll do is like playing the stock market.

Wayne Branstetter

It was an uphill shot and you don't see the green. I spent a few minutes looking for my ball. Everyone thought it was in the rough. One guy said maybe it's in the hole. I said, 'No way.' That went into my pocket, too. Nobody had heard of anyone doing it before.

Brad Hobbs

It was a bad first game, I got off to a bad start. We were behind the eight-ball all set, it was uphill all the way. We kinda let the set go.

Bob Bryan

Manufacturers should not count on automatic loyalty among first-time buyers, even if their parents are current customers. Not only is it an uphill battle to get their attention, but traditional endorsements from family members don't appear to play a large factor, especially from a retailer view.

Lonnie Miller

That EPS may increase slightly year over year is still valid guidance, ... All factors suggest that first quarter and second quarter we will face an uphill climb compared to 2000.

Thomas Webb

There's been a lot of ups and downs and a lot of meetings. When you consider this has been an all-volunteer effort, it's a good feeling to know we've met this milestone. Owning the building is a big feather in our cap. But it's still an uphill battle.

Bud Pisarek

[Duval knows he faces an uphill battle.] People talk about the grip change being so hard, but for me that has been the easiest thing, ... The hardest thing has been changing the way I release the club. I'm still not doing that like I want. I still have a tendency to do it the way I used to, and with the grip change, that's not a good mix.

David Duval

We played as hard as we can. … Sometimes you just get beat. We've got an uphill battle now.

Dan Rohn

A revenue-neutral proposal has an uphill struggle.

Aaron Henry

We were under the gun. Upper Perk is an unbelievably talented team. They have barely any weaknesses. We knew it was an uphill battle and I liked how our kids battled. It was a great experience for us.

Darrin Cummings

Climbing Everest is not cheap. It's been an uphill battle. But, for an Everest climb that is appropriate.

Lance Trumbull

This course is like other courses. I wanted to beat certain people. The last uphill was tough.

Justine Jeroski

It's going to be an uphill battle. In an election year, it would be enormously hard to get more than token cuts.

Phillip Swagel

We want to take people on an adventure but not someplace they're not comfortable going. This allows people to get to some very interesting terrain without a huge amount of uphill.

Dick Jackson

I knew they'd come out and swing the ball. It was an uphill battle from there.

Rob Schimmoeller

We were playing downhill. They were playing uphill. But in a game like that you have to take advantage of your opportunities. We have to put the ball away. The next game won't be like this. Hopefully we put a bad game behind us.

Marcelo Castillo

The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.

Andrew Goodman

We had had the 20-3 season, and saw we can compete at a higher level. At that point, we knew we needed to get some tougher teams on schedule. You have to walk before you run, and we don't want to keep fighting an uphill battle. You have to be ready before you put the big dogs on the schedule.

Chris Shaw

We had a little trouble getting things going and getting a flow up the ice. We were off somehow. It's hard to explain, but like we were fighting an uphill battle.

Toby Petersen

It's an uphill battle. But we're not going to quit on (the players) and they won't quit on us.

Drew Danner

That was a very intense match. Kevin only weights 190-something so every time he goes out there he's giving up 30, 40 pounds. It's an uphill battle for him every time he steps out there. He wrestled as hard as he could. He just came up a little short.

Skip Pighetti

I knew it would be very expensive and I thought it was an uphill battle, which it still is, and it would take a tremendous amount of time, which it has.

Susan Rosenblatt

One of the benefits of that car is that it's a much cheaper car to build for the car owner and it's built with much better chance of each car on the track being competitive. (Dodge) had an uphill battle to try to make (the Intrepid) perform and make it match its cousin on the street.

Gary Nelson

It doesn't mean they can't win. It means it's uphill.

Dennis Simon

My goal at the beginning of the year was just to win every game we could, but more importantly to leave this program going to where it's going to be able to win championships. To where it's going to be built stronger and stronger. I think we accomplished that. Obviously, we didn't win every game, but I'll be leaving this program uphill and really leading to great things.

Ryan Neill

We had an uphill battle.

Dan Rohn

[Riders can get so sideways at 14 that photographers and cameramen congregate there during winter testing to capture riders showing off for the cameras.] It's one of the funnest corners, it just kinda sets itself up like speedway! ... It's uphill, so you come up there and it automatically kicks out sideways. But you can always have fun on MotoGP bikes, doesn't matt.

Colin Edwards

We wanted to be .500 at worst at this point (of the season), and now we're three and five. That makes it an uphill battle. You make it tough on yourself when you score 10 runs in a game and don't win.

Jon Raker

The two Hilliard games are crucial. If we can win out and get to 25 points, we'll be right there. It's still an uphill battle, though.

Don Jennings

Any major change to convention regulations requires a three-fourths vote. Japan has a quarter block over the minority on most issues. That creates an uphill hurdle when it comes to increasing or decreasing protection for whales.

Karen Steuer

It was just an uphill battle.

Jordan Parise

The uphill battle will be getting a partnership with auto makers willing to put radios in their cars as original equipment.

David Bank

Because it's Valentine's Day, I've attached pictures of my wife and children to my boots, so with every step, I will have a pleasant thought of my wife and children. They are facing uphill, so it reminds me that they support me.

Troy Mcmahan

Whenever you appeal, it's a little bit of an uphill battle. But it's a real issue an appellate court will take some time to decide and an issue the district attorney would rather not have.

Henry Mazurek

It would be more of an uphill fight to justify downloading 'The Sopranos' if you're not an HBO subscriber.

Fred Von Lohmann

It's frustrating. Beating a team like Miami that has the potential to win a world championship, and then turn around and come to Orlando ... They played last night, we played last night. We just didn't match their energy, and that's why we were playing uphill the whole game.

Calbert Cheaney

Unless HBOS and Northern Rock step back, Barclays is facing a long uphill struggle in mortgages.

Simon Maughan

We're still fighting an uphill battle in Tennessee, no about it.

David Lubell

I could rest a bit behind Jens. It was a very hard uphill but because of the rest behind Jens, I had a little extra and said to myself 'If you want to win, you better do it now.

Mario Stecher

He knew that it was an uphill struggle. But he faced it with realism, courage and a firm hope that he would be one of the fortunate ones. In the end, he was not.

David Westin

There's no division among the players, ... It's been a uphill battle, and we've been feeling the pressure and sometimes it's come out the wrong way, but I think everyone has handled it. There have not been any knock-down, drag-out fights.

Kyle Lohse

This will give us an indication on our district. Our district is going to be and uphill battle to climb.

Ernie Bertrand

We knew this would be an uphill struggle to find corporate sponsors in so short a time frame.

Ernest Collins

He's got the apparatus of the White House, of the DNC (the Democratic National Committee) and all the party regulars, the traditional supporters. It's always been uphill in that regard.

Eric Hauser

People are not going to switch from their trusted brand to a new and similar brand without good reason. This is why follow-on products constantly face an uphill battle when coming to market.

Eric Bolesh

There is tremendous competition. Unless you find a niche it is really going to be an uphill climb.

Ellen Goldstein

It's essentially impossible for any non-Democrat to win in Gary. He would have faced a real uphill fight in 2007 unless he formed a very interesting coalition. It was an indication he might not have been interested in running again. He's been there for a while and politics in the region takes a toll on you.

Ed Feigenbaum