Famous Quotes & Sayings

I sent out a call to all the managers with players from the affected areas to make sure that every player's been talked to and contacted about each of their personal situations. And we will react accordingly to do anything we can to help them and their families.

Stephen Lewis

I should have moved for a continuation and deposed him. It affected the outcome. I called (Alcorn's) girlfriend without interviewing her in advance. It was a horrible mistake that prejudiced the case.

I've been surprised by the numbers of local businesses that have showed interest. That is high considering how much local areas were affected by the hurricanes.

It would have affected the flexibility of the whole company.

Brian Mitchell

I understand that forgiveness does not come cheaply. It's something that comes from the heart. And I can just ask the people that were involved directly and indirectly, and were affected by this case, to consider forgiving me.

I understand it more now. I didn't know that that many people had been affected negatively, especially around here. I wasn't aware of that.

The zinnia was probably the outstanding one of the total group. It's a big plant with very nice flowers that didn't seem to be affected by diseases.

They are all suffering these days from the affected sales of the company in the area, although they did not make any mistake. Others made the mistake and they condemn it. Now that we have clarified where we stand ... we leave the rest to your sense of justice.

The whole thing is horrifying. I still pursue it. I go to the media as much as I can. It has affected us a lot. Star's boy is 10 years old now and he does pretty well, but all our family wants to know where Star is. We would like to have a funeral for her.

The wind played a bit of a factor. It kind of affected our play, but when you had that wind to your back it became easy to serve the ball up or shoot it from 40-50 yards out.

The wind affected me down the stretch, ... After seeing where the pins have been the past three days...you've got to control your irons pretty well.

We sincerely apologize to those guests whose vacations have been impacted by these voyage cancellations, ... This inconvenience ... will provide desperately needed housing for thousands of individuals affected by this tragedy.

We were pretty banged up with injuries and sickness at the Hawkeye 10 and against Creston. We needed the rest to get everyone healthy. Having wrestlers out of the line-up has affected our team mentally. We have addressed that with the team and we expect to wrestle well Saturday.

John Goodwin

What that tells me is that Sonoma County was much less affected than the rest of the Bay Area by the decline in the high-tech industry.

What's unique about this study is because we have such detailed information on the population, we could say on any given date who was available to any given female and how that affected how she chose.

Karl Hobbs

We had the ball inside and they took it from us. Pops had a couple of shots inside -- dunks he usually makes and he missed them. That really affected our shooting percentage. A large part of that had to do with their defense.

We will not be surprised if we see more people affected either in college context or as students spend time with their families or with their community friends. We will continue to see an extension of this outbreak into the community level.

Richard Gephardt

We will work to make the broken places right again. We will rebuild New York. We will work on a bipartisan package to strengthen the economy, ... will help unemployed workers in the airline, aerospace, tourist and other industries affected by the attack.

We are calling off any trial test runs scheduled at the end of the month until such time that we are fully assured of the safety, not only of the area affected by the collapse, but of the entire terminal.

We believe that Alcoa's earnings will begin to reflect the strong aluminum price beginning with its 1Q 2006 earnings - particularly since several of the headwinds that affected Alcoa over the last two years, whether it be input costs or foreign currency, have stabilized.

A. J. McLean

We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.

With an estimated 13 billion chickens in China alone, this project represents a tremendous opportunity to further grow and diversify the Company's revenue stream. We believe that the successful demonstration will also open up opportunities in other parts of the world that have been affected by this devastating outbreak.

While good rains in August and September have alleviated drought conditions in portions of central and southern Illinois, the most severely affected area in northern Illinois remains stubbornly dry.

Yet the rebuilding of affected areas will likely raise production in the fourth and first quarters.

While the United States market is very important to us and we will aggressively pursue it, we are focusing our attention on areas of the world that have already been affected by this deadly disease and their governmental agencies are seeking viable solutions to help the containment of disastrous outbreaks.

While there are price differentials elsewhere, we're trying to determine why the Rocky Mountain region is being affected like this. We need the facts.

While the people of New Orleans and other affected areas clearly need help, I am not convinced that this legislation will provide it,

Joe Biden

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

You can't cancel because there's a hurricane coming. What we have seen though in the last two hurricanes ... is that the airlines, the cruise lines and the resorts that people tend to go to that are being affected are very accommodating.

We've had a very positive meeting today and Bill has confirmed that he is totally committed to leading the British team for Beijing 2008 (for the Olympics). We agreed in hindsight that some of the issues highlighted in the report could have been handled better. But Bill has affected a massive change in our sport and it's inevitable that not everything will run smoothly.

We've got a bunch of guys that want to go and run. The pace of the game they (NNU) used was different and it definitely affected us.

To some degree the colonial conception of government had been affected by the English Commonwealth of 1649, and the English Revolution of 1688.

We all agree the focus of our attention should be on the continued safety of the student-athletes, coaches and the lives of those affected by this storm. Playing a football game is not our highest priority at this time.