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I think most people that have been involved in athletics would point somewhere down the line to some coaches that affected them positively. I was very fortunate, I had many coaches that affected me positively.

Without a doubt we have been handed as extreme a challenge of rebuilding on the Gulf Coast as imaginable. But Mississippi is a great state with great people, and already we're welcoming golf, gaming and other tourists to the rest of the state. This will help the state and the state in turn will be better equipped to help the Gulf Coast and its residents affected by Katrina the more visitors we host. So the best thing we can and will do is to keep keeping on. We want visitors to come see why Mississippi is a special place and judge for themselves why Mississippi is considered a rising star of the golf-and-gaming world.

Without a doubt, the weakening U.S. economy caused a reduction in business travel that affected our performance in the first quarter.

Geoff Smith

We don't think Carl will be affected in the slightest in a negative way.

David Rosenberg

We estimate the near-term loss in terms of output, employment and income in the affected area coupled with the surge in energy costs that impacts everyone will offset any future rebuilding by a factor of two to one.

We estimate production at the affected plants is around 1 million units annually, indicating around 4,300 units of lost production for every day these plants remain down.

We estimate 120 homes were affected by that flooding, with six that sustained major damage.

We encourage everybody who is affected by the disaster to register with FEMA.

We really want to protect the public from a potential hazard especially with situation of grass fires (and) how it affected our area.

We really thought we had that game won, but luck didn't fall our way. We had a tough time getting over that last inning loss, and I think that affected us in the second game.

Jay Thomas

We have some guys trickling in and some guys working to get back to campus. Our coaching staff . . . (has) been working the phones since Thursday. We've been in contact with every player, and everyone is safe. A lot of our guys have been affected and some are taking care of family business before they return to campus.

Judd Gregg

We must make sure that the people and areas that were directly affected by the storm get the help they need to get on their feet and get their communities rebuilt, ... At the same time, we must take every precaution to ensure that these funds are spent wisely.

While we still haven't seen the full effect of gasoline prices, (consumers) know what's going on here, and that's probably affected some of their purchases.

For the last three years, we've been doing 56 games in 11 days over a three-week period. The decision to condense the schedule really affected our approach this year.

For only 3 per cent of people to complain that they have been affected by racism when something of the order of 48 per cent -- almost 50 per cent -- come from Asian, North African or Middle Eastern backgrounds, I think it evidences a society that is very accommodating,

For the early hours on Wednesday, the students needed to talk about the tragedy and process the information. As the day progressed a sense of normalcy returned, but we'll keep a close eye on some of the students who seem to be affected the most.

I definitely think that's affected my game. Me and him have a chemistry with each other that no one else has on the court.

Joaquin Phoenix

I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!

It certainly set the tone for the second half. I surely don't want to say that was the only play that affected the outcome of the game, but we've got to be able to get off the field on third and long.

I think the injuries really affected us last weekend. I think we are a better team than the other teams, but we need to be more consistent. I think it will all come together when it really counts.

There is a growing emergency for more than 56,000 children who are believed to be suffering from moderate and severe malnutrition in affected areas. the figure is expected to rise dramatically over the next three months.

I'd be willing to bet this is going to be the No. 1 line on the whole 1040 that gets messed up. There are a lot of partnerships and pass-through entities that qualify ... there are more people affected by this line than you might think.

He has kept that mostly to himself. I know it has affected him. He's a very compassionate and genuine person and I can tell that it has affected him greatly.

Investors in Egyptian stocks are psychologically affected by today's declines in Persian Gulf markets.

Instead of refreshing the whole page or the entire application, only the part that is affected by the user making a change gets refreshed. This makes Web interactions much faster.

In softball we always preach and preach to pitchers that the mark of a good pitcher is to win when you're not throwing well. We haven't been in this situation very much this year where we haven't been playing well where the game's still close. In the first half we did struggle and I think mentally it affected us a little bit.

Dolly Parton

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

I just don't understand how it escalated and got this far. She's had a hard life. She grew up in the projects. I guess what she's seen between me and my husband, the verbal and physical abuse, affected her.

George Fisher

Clearly, our underlying growth this year has been very much affected by increasingly difficult economic times and a tough competitive environment. Neither of those conditions is likely to change in the near-term,

Being affected by this law is not something people are looking to advertise.

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.

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 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.