Sentences with phrase «many small ponds»

So, if you put someone in a very, very highly competitive pond, they are going to reach very different conclusions about who they are and what they are capable of than if you put them in a less selective pond, a smaller pond.

If you want to be a big fish come to the small pond.

For Canada, the US exit made it a bigger fish in a smaller pond and Canada's game transitioned from defence to offence.

Cap would prefer to be a big man in a small pond, but as for me, I would prefer to be a tiny fish in a greater ocean.

She could assume a Robert California / Charles Minor role where she comes into Scranton and takes names and asserts herself as the big fish in the small pond.

Is it better to be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond?

«We make a lot of noise,» Legeron says of natural wine devotees, «but we're a big fish in a small pond, in a way.»

If he left for to join the Tigers, he would be a big fish in a small pond, but at least he would be in the Premier League and he is dearly loved by the KC faithful.

Having been a big fish in a small pond, they then become involved with bigger fish in a bigger pond.

Cain will be a big fish in a small pond this season, but his long - term future is at a much higher level for sure.

I see lukaku as a big fish in a small pond.

The former Barcelona man may well benefit from a move to Fratton Park where he could be a big fish in a relatively small pond but perhaps a loan deal would suit all parties as opposed to Harry allowing the # 6m man to make a permanent exit.

Nearby is a small pond in which she keeps fit by swimming, usually naked and heedless of the crocodiles who also exercise there.

After moving to Stoke, the Scot could benefit from more game time and being a bigger fish in a smaller pond.

Martinez is clearly starting to get to the point where he's sick of being a big fish in a small pond, playing in the Portuguese league.

Ivanovic could move to the MLS and become the big fish in the small pond once again.

He's gone from being a big fish in a regularly small pond to being just another name, and he hasn't thrived in his new environment.

Two years older and you're talking a first round pick vs. a player who's a big fish in a small pond on a sixers team.

The 29 year - old is a big fish in a small pond at Leicester, and now that he has recently got married to Becky (and they have an 18 month old baby plus three older kids), he may be loathe to create a big upheaval in their lives.

He also may enjoy being a big fish in a small pond.

Then we would be a bigger fish in a smaller pond with the feasible possibility we might win it!

Big fish in smaller pond f you like.

While he may have been a big fish in a small pond in Ames, he frequently tested himself against NFL - caliber defenses in four years of Big 12 play.

The most intriguing rules skirmish involves Clarence Rose, who pitches across the 6th green into a small pond.

and I still reiterate my sentiments, many players are better suited to playing for smaller clubs with very little expectations and less pressure and I can name loads of very very talented players who just don't have the big club mentality, players who bloom and shine when they are the main attraction, the big fish in a small pond but who will whither and fade once they make the step up to bigger teams... with Arsenal Afobe will just be another player, another upstart who will find the pressure of delivering week in week out or be out of the team hard to deal with... at Bournemouth he has time to settle into his pace, if he misses chances like he did on his debut for the club he will still be given chances after chances, just like it happened withn him

Theo has benefited from the predicament the Club finds itself in from having been unable to retain its previous far better attacking players, and now Theo looks like a much bigger fish in a much smaller pond that he really is.

It looks like Dembele was suffering from the case of «big fish, small pond» at Fulham.

They might be a big side in Scotland, but it certainly shows they are a big fish in a small pond.

The transition from big fish in a small pond to simply being one of many talented players was always bound to produce frustrating moments for Iturbe and Roma.

In a rather tongue - in - cheek manner, Drogba seems to have taken a pot - shot at Fernando Torres and Liverpool FC in his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small pond.

There is a risk because he is a big fish in a small pond and to step up and play Champions League football is a big ask, but he might be leading the line for England at the European Championships next summer.

The stark contrast in his role and his production perfectly embodies the really big fish in a small pond idea, and truly conveys what happens when a superstar footballer drops way down in weight class of the league he plays in.

Porto are in many ways a big fish in a small pond; the Portuguese League generates an annual TV revenue of 50 million to split between its clubs, while a club like Arsenal alone earns more than that annually, just to put it in perspective how much of an uphill battle it is for Porto to mix it up deep in the Champions League.

For the very lucky, you only have to clean up a small pond's worth of pee over the course of a few weeks before you're in the clear, but for most people, potty training a kid involves a series of trials and tribulations that can take months (or in some cases years; our thoughts are with you).

I would describe being a same sex couple experiencing baby loss as being in a small pond, within a small pond.

She describes being in a same - sex couple experiencing baby loss as being in a small pond, within a small pond.

As part of the deal, the Park District has agreed to maintain the property, but it won't be allowed to build any permanent structures on the land, which holds small ponds and wetlands.

I love what the jacket says about the book: «On a summer night by a small pond, all seems still.

The building is situated in a 12.4 - acre park - like setting with walking trails, sitting areas, flower gardens and a small pond.

why do you think Mikey «kershner - spada» Hinney wakes up every morning believing he is the next Lt. Governor but didn't run last time nor this time... and why Kevin «small fish in small pond with way too much baggage» is not in the field.

SCHROON LAKE — Officials here have begun a waterfront revitalization plan they hope will improve access to Schroon and Paradox lakes as well as increase use of the smaller ponds located on state land around the region.

Hein, a big fish in a really small pond, has never run for state office, much less Congress.

«Which is preferable: to be a big fish in a small pond or a big fish in the ocean?

William Resetarits of Texas Tech University in Lubbock created small ponds and put fish in some of them.

Most of Britain's fast - declining populations of reptiles and amphibians, such as the great crested newt, live around small ponds that are unlikely to be listed, let alone protected, with the existing highly bureaucratic system of SSSI designation.

So it wasn't too hard to, sort of you know, be a big fish in a small pond.

Even so, most small ponds that were inundated returned to a freshwater state during the next rainy season.

But researchers are starting to explore factors such as lake depth and lake size (intuitively, it's less teeth - chattering to swim in a small pond in early summer than a big lake).

Such bulky stars can be bullies, with others that would be big fish anywhere else already fleeing for smaller ponds.

By digging small ponds on farms in Malawi, researchers have cut malnutrition in children in half — and have provided a nutritional boost to families struggling with HIV / AIDS