Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tedy Bruschi

I couldn't let Rodney (Harrison) getting hurt affect it. I couldn't let any type of loss affect it because what I was doing was so important to me and because there was no way I was going to be able to help them anyway if I wasn't able to perform the way I felt I was capable.

Tedy Bruschi

I couldn't let how the team was doing affect my mindset on my rehabilitation,

Kyle Lohse

I'd be lying if I said it didn't affect me. I definitely felt a little uncomfortable.

Tom Boonen

I crashed and it hurt a bit, but it did not affect the sprint. I was on the left, he was on the right.

Joe Nation

I am dismayed the governor decided to veto a voter-oriented, good government piece of legislation, ... However, I understand this bill would have adversely affected his govern-by-initiative approach by forcing paid signature gatherers to reveal their true identity to voters.

Jeff Sessions

I am disappointed that the Democratic leader Harry Reid has apparently urged his colleagues to vote no on this nomination. ... I think it may affect votes on the floor to make this a leadership issue.

Taylor Dent

I am extremely disappointed to still feel the affects of the final match in Indianapolis. I'd be doing the tournament and myself a disservice to go out there at 50 percent. I'm going to take a few days to recover and prepare for the ATP Masters Series events.

I am just concerned that what has happened to me has affected this team and that breaks my heart, ... The game plan was not clear for me. I probably should have let Steve (Fairchild) call the game. It is just that part that is in me, the part that I want to just bulldog it.

I bet it's really affecting the smaller schools.

Melanne Verveer

I believe to be a leader is to enable others to embrace a vision, initiative or assignment in a way that they feel a sense of purpose, ownership, personal engagement, and common cause. I was very affected as a child by my father's positive example as a civic leader who inspired others to share his commitment to improving our community.

Joe Nation

I believe we have a responsibility to provide as much information to the public as possible, ... That knowledge presents each of us with the power to make informed choices about issues that affect our lives and those of future generations.

He wants to be the centre of attention and today he is. It's affected me long term, I've only recently started to go back to work.

He wants the city to have a winning team. He just hopes the media frenzy and the speculation don't affect the players and the organization.

Jim Tressel

He creates a lot of problems because he can make plays when there's no play to be made, ... You've got to affect the quarterback's job because no one has a harder job than the quarterback and if you make it even harder, I think you have a chance to stop an offense.

Bruce Bochy

He couldn't feel the ball with his thumb. That really affected his location.

He could not have gotten it as a child. Children who get lead ... usually get intellectual deficits -- it affects their learning ability. However, adults often attain their full intelligence. They have this unremitting abdominal distress, pain and nausea, that sort of thing.

He cared about what he was doing and how it would affect lives,

He'll be OK. But it might affect his golf game.

He is visiting the area around 13:30 to see the extent of the damage and will fly over to see the affected areas.

Randy Jackson

Greensboro, N.C., was an eye-opener. Of course, Clay and Fantasia came from Carolina. They're not as affected as New York and Los Angeles, where they watch too much VH1 and MTV and mimic that.

Hammond will not do anything to adversely affect the businesses in Highland.

Ike Skelton

Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.

Groins are very difficult because they affect the throwing motion. It could be more than one weekend.

Ahman Green

Groins are very difficult because they affect the throwing motion, ... It could be more than one weekend.

Bill Clinton

There are still people who view AIDS as something that affects only people who are different,

David Lambert

There are so many more hourly people than salaried, and they get more of the press than us. That's why we are sort of the forgotten few. But we are feeling real anxiety, too, especially about the possibility of (a Delphi) bankruptcy and how it would affect us. We don't have anything protecting us. They have a contract.

Mike Johanns

There are so many commodities in the affected areas, like rice, cotton, sugar cane, cattle and chickens, ... Many grains that are stored can't handle the heat and humidity.

Tom Renney

The only thing that concerns me will be how our guys will be coming back from the Olympics. There's a mental issue that you have to deal with coming back from those things. These guys expend so much of themselves at this event. It's such a pinnacle at two-thirds of the way through the season. I don't know how that magnitude of an event is going to affect them. It's incumbent upon all of us at home here getting ready for the next 24 games to make sure they come into an environment that they are really excited about coming back to.

Joey Harrington

The only thing it does affect is having him out here on the field, having him in the meeting room, and he was great. We worked well together.

Everybody is always going to have haters. It comes with the job. You have to have a tough skin and not let it affect you.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

Eric Ross

If Intel is seeing some problems, and it's not all market-share problems, that's got to affect the rest of the semiconductor industry. We heard there are inventories of PCs out there as well.