Yet Campbell said he never came close to leaving.
I came so close to leaving them, to abandoning them".
In 2001, Szolkowy was close to leaving the sport after his partner retired.
Boeheim now denies that Waiters was close to leaving, but it was not a happy relationship.
And then he reportedly came close to leaving Harvard to run guagua.com, an Internet startup.
Coppell's agent Athole Still confirmed his client had come close to leaving the club.
She is close to leaving school and has already progressed further than many of her peers.
Weinke was never close to leaving F.S.U. for the N.F.L., he says now.
For Son, a player who came close to leaving in the summer, it is quite a turnaround.
Though Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is close to leaving the list altogether, until 2007 its $117 billion heft would have made it the world's biggest bank.
McCain and his aides insist that the Senator was never close to leaving the Party, though they do not deny that there were conversations about the matter.
