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I said to William that when [his brother] Prince Harry came to Belize he was dancing and didn't need encouragement, he is a wild card. William laughed and said, 'Harry's not self-conscious.’. – Cynthia Ellis-Topsy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I can see them getting bought out or taken private, but they wouldn't be interesting to big banks, Schwab or Morgan Stanley. A wild card could be PayPal. – Hugh Tallents	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The chips are still the wild card for this year. – Michelle Krebs	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Nobody is surprised to see Hendriks helping out. Everything he does is with a passion and care known well for his thoughtful work off the field as much as his intensity on it. Hendriks reliability in the ninth inning has earned him a solid reputation, too. But you wont hear Hendriks say it. He plans to earn the job again. I dont want to be complacent, he said. Going out there and making sure I put everything on the line every night is a big thing for me. The Oakland closer received a nice raise when he signed a $ 5.3 million, one-year contract last month to avoid salary arbitration. The 31-year-old Hendriks is approaching this season as if he has everything to prove once again. He plans to take the mound each opportunity he gets exhibiting the confidence that he can and will repeat what he did last season. The right-hander, a former opener for the As, went 4-4 with a 1.80 ERA and 25 saves over a career-high 75 appearances spanning 85 innings. I dont want to dwell too much on last year because I dont want to rest on my laurels. I dont want to go out there and be like, Oh, I had my good year, I can ride that wave as long as I can, Hendriks said. I want to go out there and prove that it wasnt a fluke. I want to go out there and prove that no matter what happened last year I still need to win the job this year. I dont want to be gifted anything. I dont want to be given anything, I want to go out there and make sure that in spring training I prove that I want this role, I want this job and Im going to run away with it and prove to everybody why I want it. Hendriks became a key piece for As manager Bob Melvin late in games last season as The Oakland earned the ALs top wild card before losing to Tampa Bay. Considering his topsy-turvy history, Melvin is hardly surprised by Hendriks focus. He got designated for assignment on June 25, 2018 and has been through that almost a half-dozen times now before starting The Oakland 7-2 wild-card loss at Yankee Stadium just more than three months later. You would expect that from somebody thats been through the trials and tribulations that hes been over his career, so I think it is more about him not relaxing at all, Melvin said. He wants to be pushed, he wants to earn everything that he gets. Hes come a long way. He had as dominant a year really as anybody in baseball. He has learned from other times when he thought things were going smoothly, saying, I dont like feeling like Ive got it in the bag because as soon as I do somethings always going to pop up, Hendriks said. I dealt with certain things very poorly in the past and my mindset to get over that was expect the worst and hope for the best, he said. Expect the worst and if something good happens youre able to handle it, rather than expecting things and if they didnt come to fruition, falling out a rabbit hole and being kind of self-deprecating and all that. Starter Mike Fiers appreciates Hendriks determination and focus to again show why he is fit to be the ninth-inning option. Everyone has their ups and downs, and thats similar to how I am. I dont want to just sit back and be like Listen, Ive got the job. – Starter Mike Fiers	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
When that happens, of course, we call in a company that deals with that specifically, and it's taken safely into possession, the uranium is the wild card in that situation. – Guthrie Police Sgt. Anthony Gibbs	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I am pleased that the (European Tour) tournament committee agreed to the change of wild card numbers, i have spoken to a number of people regarding the ninth player automatically qualifying for the team and in my experience, a player is more comfortable when he has qualified, hence my reasoning behind this change. – Padraig Harrington	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I'll be more interested in this (royal baby) because Harry is the cool one, ... he's the wild card, he's the ginger one. – Leon Campbell	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Austin [Rogers] especially was a big unknown. All I knew is that he had won 12 games and a lot of money, so when I heard I was going up against him in the first round, my goal was honestly just shooting for a wild-card spot. But then I think I played the best game of ‘Jeopardy!’ I’ve ever played and got the lock game, which really helped my confidence, though that confidence promptly deserted me the next day. – Alan Lin	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Not for those suspended for doping. Maria should rebuild her career in a different way, beginning with smaller events, she wouldn't have a chance for (a wild card) from my hands (if I was a tournament director). – Agnieszka Radwanska	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Obviously, the economy is something of a wild card, perhaps the consumer economy is doing okay, but there is a depression in the energy economy and it feels like there is a general malaise if not a recession looming in the industrial and manufacturing economies. – Richard Fairbank	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The momentum remains weak this year, with less than 5 percent of year-on-year growth in 2016, the global economic outlook is still sluggish, and Taiwan is losing out to Chinese rivals. A wild card is how strong the demand will be for the new iPhones Apple is set to launch in March. – Hsu Kuo-An	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The wild card here is the wife Malik. – Michael McCaul	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The geopolitical situation is the risk that keeps me up at night, as it continues to mutate in scary directions. It is clearly the wild card. – Matthew Kaufler	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Stable to limited growth in output from Iraq would give some potential for an uptick in prices - if it were not for Iran, libya is another big wild card. – Eugene Lindell	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
(The wild card is) what will be the (geopolitical) relation between Ukraine and Russia. – Tomas Marecek	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We're excited about it, and it's not something we take for granted, obviously, we would love to win the division and bypass the wild card game. Just getting in any way we can is special. – The Cardinals	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Taking down a (Democratic) machine is hard enough alone, but to have an independent wild card -- very glib, very outspoken, didn't care what he said -- was a learning experience. – Lincoln Chafee	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I see the dollar trade probably continuing at this point since we're the only ones moving toward a tightening bias, greece is the wild card in terms of what will happen to the euro. – Windham Financial	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If you have spent any time watching Boko Haram, you would know that Shekau is truly insane and his version of Islam is even too radical for Islamic State, a mixture of part witch doctor/part voodoo/part radical Islam. He is usually screaming, surrounded by a posse, and at least one tank, this last video is a totally new Shekau, calm, cool collective.Someone is directing his image. My thought is he is a wild card that Islamic State cannot afford to ally with unless they rebrand him or get rid of him entirely. – Veryan Khan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's a real wild card in the House whether (Speaker John) Boehner is going to be empowered by this larger majority or whether they're going to be a bigger thorn in his side in the way we've seen in the past, so as we look to whether the relative harmony and lack of drama of this lame-duck period can continue in the new Congress, I think that's going to be a major factor. – The Atlantic Molly Ball	Found on CNN 10 years ago

I said to William that when [his brother] Prince Harry came to Belize he was dancing and didn't need encouragement, he is a wild card. William laughed and said, 'Harry's not self-conscious.’.

– Cynthia Ellis-Topsy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I can see them getting bought out or taken private, but they wouldn't be interesting to big banks, Schwab or Morgan Stanley. A wild card could be PayPal.

– Hugh Tallents

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The chips are still the wild card for this year.

– Michelle Krebs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Nobody is surprised to see Hendriks helping out. Everything he does is with a passion and care known well for his thoughtful work off the field as much as his intensity on it. Hendriks reliability in the ninth inning has earned him a solid reputation, too. But you wont hear Hendriks say it. He plans to earn the job again. I dont want to be complacent, he said. Going out there and making sure I put everything on the line every night is a big thing for me. The Oakland closer received a nice raise when he signed a $ 5.3 million, one-year contract last month to avoid salary arbitration. The 31-year-old Hendriks is approaching this season as if he has everything to prove once again. He plans to take the mound each opportunity he gets exhibiting the confidence that he can and will repeat what he did last season. The right-hander, a former opener for the As, went 4-4 with a 1.80 ERA and 25 saves over a career-high 75 appearances spanning 85 innings. I dont want to dwell too much on last year because I dont want to rest on my laurels. I dont want to go out there and be like, Oh, I had my good year, I can ride that wave as long as I can, Hendriks said. I want to go out there and prove that it wasnt a fluke. I want to go out there and prove that no matter what happened last year I still need to win the job this year. I dont want to be gifted anything. I dont want to be given anything, I want to go out there and make sure that in spring training I prove that I want this role, I want this job and Im going to run away with it and prove to everybody why I want it. Hendriks became a key piece for As manager Bob Melvin late in games last season as The Oakland earned the ALs top wild card before losing to Tampa Bay. Considering his topsy-turvy history, Melvin is hardly surprised by Hendriks focus. He got designated for assignment on June 25, 2018 and has been through that almost a half-dozen times now before starting The Oakland 7-2 wild-card loss at Yankee Stadium just more than three months later. You would expect that from somebody thats been through the trials and tribulations that hes been over his career, so I think it is more about him not relaxing at all, Melvin said. He wants to be pushed, he wants to earn everything that he gets. Hes come a long way. He had as dominant a year really as anybody in baseball. He has learned from other times when he thought things were going smoothly, saying, I dont like feeling like Ive got it in the bag because as soon as I do somethings always going to pop up, Hendriks said. I dealt with certain things very poorly in the past and my mindset to get over that was expect the worst and hope for the best, he said. Expect the worst and if something good happens youre able to handle it, rather than expecting things and if they didnt come to fruition, falling out a rabbit hole and being kind of self-deprecating and all that. Starter Mike Fiers appreciates Hendriks determination and focus to again show why he is fit to be the ninth-inning option. Everyone has their ups and downs, and thats similar to how I am. I dont want to just sit back and be like Listen, Ive got the job.

– Starter Mike Fiers

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

When that happens, of course, we call in a company that deals with that specifically, and it's taken safely into possession, the uranium is the wild card in that situation.

– Guthrie Police Sgt. Anthony Gibbs

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I am pleased that the (European Tour) tournament committee agreed to the change of wild card numbers, i have spoken to a number of people regarding the ninth player automatically qualifying for the team and in my experience, a player is more comfortable when he has qualified, hence my reasoning behind this change.

– Padraig Harrington

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I'll be more interested in this (royal baby) because Harry is the cool one, ... he's the wild card, he's the ginger one.

– Leon Campbell

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Austin [Rogers] especially was a big unknown. All I knew is that he had won 12 games and a lot of money, so when I heard I was going up against him in the first round, my goal was honestly just shooting for a wild-card spot. But then I think I played the best game of ‘Jeopardy!’ I’ve ever played and got the lock game, which really helped my confidence, though that confidence promptly deserted me the next day.

– Alan Lin

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Not for those suspended for doping. Maria should rebuild her career in a different way, beginning with smaller events, she wouldn't have a chance for (a wild card) from my hands (if I was a tournament director).

– Agnieszka Radwanska

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Obviously, the economy is something of a wild card, perhaps the consumer economy is doing okay, but there is a depression in the energy economy and it feels like there is a general malaise if not a recession looming in the industrial and manufacturing economies.

– Richard Fairbank

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The momentum remains weak this year, with less than 5 percent of year-on-year growth in 2016, the global economic outlook is still sluggish, and Taiwan is losing out to Chinese rivals. A wild card is how strong the demand will be for the new iPhones Apple is set to launch in March.

– Hsu Kuo-An

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The wild card here is the wife Malik.

– Michael McCaul

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The geopolitical situation is the risk that keeps me up at night, as it continues to mutate in scary directions. It is clearly the wild card.

– Matthew Kaufler

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Stable to limited growth in output from Iraq would give some potential for an uptick in prices - if it were not for Iran, libya is another big wild card.

– Eugene Lindell

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

(The wild card is) what will be the (geopolitical) relation between Ukraine and Russia.

– Tomas Marecek

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We're excited about it, and it's not something we take for granted, obviously, we would love to win the division and bypass the wild card game. Just getting in any way we can is special.

– The Cardinals

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Taking down a (Democratic) machine is hard enough alone, but to have an independent wild card -- very glib, very outspoken, didn't care what he said -- was a learning experience.

– Lincoln Chafee

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I see the dollar trade probably continuing at this point since we're the only ones moving toward a tightening bias, greece is the wild card in terms of what will happen to the euro.

– Windham Financial

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If you have spent any time watching Boko Haram, you would know that Shekau is truly insane and his version of Islam is even too radical for Islamic State, a mixture of part witch doctor/part voodoo/part radical Islam. He is usually screaming, surrounded by a posse, and at least one tank, this last video is a totally new Shekau, calm, cool collective.Someone is directing his image. My thought is he is a wild card that Islamic State cannot afford to ally with unless they rebrand him or get rid of him entirely.

– Veryan Khan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's a real wild card in the House whether (Speaker John) Boehner is going to be empowered by this larger majority or whether they're going to be a bigger thorn in his side in the way we've seen in the past, so as we look to whether the relative harmony and lack of drama of this lame-duck period can continue in the new Congress, I think that's going to be a major factor.

– The Atlantic Molly Ball

Found on CNN
10 years ago

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