Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm blown away by the turnout. We wondered, since it's so cold, if it was going to affect anything.

Joe Montana

I'm an athlete. I'd been working out all my life, so I thought, It won't affect me.

If there has been a focus, though, it's been trying to be involved and give to those charitable groups that affect our employees personally and probably our communities a little more. Cancer's been a big one because it affects just about every family, and we've had some employees pass away in the last few years from cancer. Heart disease is another big issue that affects most families.

If there's any drawback, it would be in terms of how higher prices would affect the margins in their refining operations -- but that's not an issue now because of capacity constraints we have here in the United States.

If people can't pay the credit in 180 days, and these are people who would pay in the 240 days they get from Sears, that would affect them,

If people want to help the families affected by the flooding, the best way to do that is with financial contributions to the Red Cross. It's more efficient when we can purchase in bulk.

I had a couple of (immigrants) request the day off. Everyone that wanted to attend or not attend was good enough to request a day off. It did not affect us or our customers.

I guess you're going to be a little nervous because anything can happen and nobody is really untouchable. It's just a day. You've got to block it out and play. Before you know it, it will be here and gone. We'll wait and see if it affects the guys down here.

Jacques Chirac

if we want, in this troubled and unsettled international context, to guarantee the security of our citizens and influence the international choices that affect our interests.

If we want a seat at the political table, we really need to be able to have the monetary resources necessary to affect elections.

I really think when you talk about pocketbook issues that affect the electorate, people think about the Nasdaq (composite index) and the Dow Jones (industrial average). If we got another rate hike and the market sold off on that, I think people would be displeased. If there's no rate hike on August 22 and the market rallies, you've got to say that helps (Al) Gore.

I really don't have any ideas on why the numbers were down this year. There's a lot of factors that affects what happens.

Darren Sharper

I really don't even think it's a distraction. Those are things that happen outside the locker room. ... We've done a great job of not letting those things affect us.

Robbie Robertson

I remember from my earliest years, ... people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

I looked at it like if I was in their shoes, what kind of information would I want? I'd want to know how it would affect me, where it would be built.

Larry Brown

I look around, the young kids can make a mistake, but it's generally with effort and that will go a long way to correcting itself, ... We've got to get all of us doing that, because you're going to make mistakes. Take a bad shot, turn the ball over. It's going to happen, but you can't compound it by not doing your job, and understanding the trust, I always talk about trust, if I don't hustle back I affect my whole team, and I have to believe strongly enough not to ever let that happen.

John Schultz

I know he let a few guys go free tonight more than he would like to, but he's going to be OK. With the weather we've had, no pitchers have faced light batters, so that affects a guy a little bit.

I know for a fact we were affected (by the economy) in our season ticket sales, ... When companies are laying people off, it's hard for them to justify buying season tickets again.

I know it affected him pretty deeply, and I felt bad for him. It was one of those things where I knew he was going to be important to us the rest of the season. I really tried to pick him up.

In these early years, if we keep the Reserve Fund and use that it shouldn't affect our budget. It eventually will if we don't wean ourselves.

I just had to go back, get relaxed and realize that I'm going to be OK and that I'm not affected really by what he did.

I just had a bad game. My fingers didn't affect me. I just didn't have my shot.

I have taken the reports seriously and have expressed the concern that nothing happens or has happened that may affect the proper legal process.

George H. W. Bush

I hope my fellow Texans will say a prayer for those fellow Texans in harm's way, ... Disaster comes like a thief in the night sometimes, and our hopes are that this storm, as ferocious as it may seem, will not affect human life in any way.

I heard about the storm coming, but I really didn't expect it to affect us much here. I felt bad because I could never imagine losing my home, and on top of that worrying about how I'm going to feed my child.

I hear a lot of people say they feel guilty going to the beach or going camping when our neighbors in bordering states are affected forever, ... Traffic is light. I've seen very few out-of-state tags today.

Howard Gordon

I hope people will understand, I hope they'll be affected by the loss and I hope they'll miss him. Because if they do, we'll have all done our jobs.

I have the utmost respect for him. The booing did not affect his game and he just got on with it. He came to see me on Monday and said he wanted to play in the reserves to keep fit and be ready when needed. That's the sort of attitude that is needed at this football club.

I have probably given him too many minutes. Sometimes fatigue sets in, and the first thing it affects is your shot. I have faith he will knock some of those shots down.

I haven't heard anyone say the World Baseball Classic has adversely affected sales. It's almost like we're going in parallel universes.

Ryan Robbins

I have to say that Common is one of the kindest, most humble, grateful individuals that I've ever met in my life. I was profoundly affected by meeting him. I think he is an outstanding human being.

I really think our serve affected how they performed. It was just a matter of not giving them easy points. We took them completely out of their offense. They weren't able to run their plays in the middle.

I really feel like the dark side of the '60s began in that period, ... I wanted to explore that and show how that might have affected individuals, or how individuals had their lives changed by that shift. ... I do feel that a lot of the promise of the '60s was not only unfulfilled, but broken.