Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Asia Cup is the best platform for regional teams to do well and get tuned up for bigger events like the World Cup.

Sharad Pawar

The Asia Cup has been postponed till 2007 september.

That was the type of reaction that we were looking for from the Asia crisis...to have weakness in stocks at the same time you'd have strength in bonds.

Jim Clark

That strain in Asia has caused high mortality in those birds; the birds that tested positive in Quebec and Manitoba are all healthy,

Apolo Ohno

I was really bothered by it. I grew up around many Asian cultures, Korean one of them. A lot of my best friends were Korean growing up. I just didn't understand. Later on I realized that was built up by certain people and that was directed at me, negative energy from other things, not even resulting around the sport, but around politics, using me to stand on the pedestal as the anti-American sentiment.

Adam Scott

I was playing well but didn't really score as well as I could have. That was frustrating and that's why I decided to go home to relax and just get my head back into the game and have a really good end of the year. It's a good field here. Obviously Lee, Nick and Craig are here and the good Asian players are here as well.

I think it was more of an excuse. Weakness in Asia just hurts a strong economy a little bit around the edges.

I think it was more of an excuse, ... Weakness in Asia just hurts a strong economy a little bit around the edges.

David Nicol

It has been an exciting year (2005) for me, and now, I am looking forward to doing well in the Asian Championships, the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games. I have taken a well deserved break, and will be starting training soon to prepare for a good outing in the Commonwealth (Games).

I think we are in a correction that was way overdue. There has been tremendous complacency by strategists about the Asia problem and even up until last week everyone was raising their targets. The Asia problem is real.

I think that's what's driving the issue in Australia - the proximity to Southeast Asia where H5N1 is a reality that they're facing every day and the opportunity for migratory birds to bring that issue into their country,

It is like taking the tires off cars. It was a real sudden impact for the entire industry including Asia and Europe and everywhere that sells foam surfboards.

Thongchai Jaidee

I will try my best to win again, for the Asian Tour. I came here before the new year to practice and the course was playing easy. But when I came here on Monday, it looked different. The rough was very thick and I think it'll be very challenging, especially if you miss the fairway.

Kim Dae Jung

I think so, because you know Northeast Asia is becoming a very important, you know, region economically, militarily, and politically.

It is extremely easy to go back, haul the boat out of the water and ship it back to the factory if we need to, which is something that wasn't around in Asia before this.

Hugh Johnson

It is encouraging that the market has been able to hold together. The overall message is that the events in Southeast Asia will in time have an impact on the U.S. economy, but not a major impact in 1998. And that is really good news.

Eddie Palmieri

I don't get much downtime, that's for sure. We generally make three separate tours of Europe each year alone. Then there's Asia and other foreign countries as well as plenty of gigs in the U.S. My son books all my dates and he does a wonderful job, so I can't complain about my schedule.

I do not think China will take the bold course of doing that. But this persistent speculation could encourage Middle Eastern and other Asian nations to race to diversify their dollar holdings.

I come from a fragmented society. A country proud to serve as a bridge between Europe and Asia yet unable to bridge its own differences.

I can easily see Asian automakers grabbing another three or four percentage points next year. I can see them taking 50 percent of the market eventually without breaking a sweat.

I believe that the Asian flu has turned into cancer and that the cancer will spread to Europe and the Western hemisphere.

I believe we have a very strong line-up. The eight players have produced some terrific golf over the past 12 months which is clearly reflected by their finishes on the Japan and Asian tours.

I believe the Asian markets are stabilizing and if you look at the Japanese market, I think the market has put in a bottom in Japan as well and that cannot hurt the U.S. market in the intermediate term.

Gong Li

I have been waiting around to get the right script and the right director. For example, in the past, if a Hollywood director came to me with a script and wanted me to play a character, and she was a stereotypical Asian woman who gets into a fight and gets killed off quickly, that didn't seem to have much interest for me.

As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience.

Steven Yeun

I believe that we are still hovering around the realm of Asians playing all types of Asians. I do not see that changing any time soon just because there is a limited pool of Asian actors.

I can't explain (it), but there's obviously something empirically fascinating to people in the Asian culture as far as gambling. They're big risk-takers in their businesses ... and they do the same in gaming.

Growth in Asia is strategically very important to us. From a strategic point of view Hong Kong is what we were after.

Given the domestic demand-led recovery, I would expect Japan to increase imports from China and other Asian economies this year, in a move to share the role with the United States as a major driving force in the world economy.

Frankly, I would say that the trend of ongoing pressure from Asia isn't a particular surprise. The great percentage of the impact from Asia has probably already been felt in Boeing's stock price, but there will be some residual delay associated with earnings.

France is benefiting from the global upturn we're seeing, with increasing numbers of companies in Asia and the U.S. buying investment goods in particular.

Daniel Yergin

Fourteen months ago, oil seemed to be in a bull market ? then Asia collapsed, ... This is basically a gross domestic product crisis driven by Asia, so the real prospects are whether you think Asia by the year 2000 will start showing signs of recovery.

From a public health point of view, I think what is happening in southeast Asia is much more serious than what would be happening in Europe ... .