Quotes About Influence

Every band wants to be have a song that is that big, that will pretty much live on forever. I don't know too many new bands that will have a 'Free Bird' that will be around 30 years later. It's become a national anthem of sorts.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confused, so I grew up listening to music from all around the world.

David Cameron should be focusing on what is in Britain's national interest and our place in the world, not on internal party politics.

Any coach in football doesn't like national team games because it's out of your hands; you can't really control what's going to happen.

I've been the captain at Ajax and once for the national team - it's nice and makes you an important player.

Neymar is the most important player in our national team. His absence is felt when he doesn't play. Same holds true for Barcelona. Such is his impact.

I saw Claude Makelele play in the French national team but before when he played at a club I didn't watch him a lot.

No one person is going to come in and change the world, or a national team.

I think players of the national team are not entitled to make an opinion about who is making the team and who is not. At least in my days it was like that.

I think we have a big responsibility as the U.S. women's national team for women's football globally. I think everyone kind of looks up to us, whether they say they do or not. I think there is this awe and curiosity about what we've done in order to become as successful as we have.

When I was a kid, my big hero was the number 10 of Flamengo and not the number 10 of Santos. His name was Dida. We didn't have much knowledge about the championship in Sao Paolo or in the south of Brazil. We just knew about the championship in Rio because I am from there. But Pele played for the national team and was a hero.

When I was little, I loved Alessandro Del Piero, who made history with Juventus and the national team. And growing up, once I took to the pitch, I looked closely at what Andrea Pirlo was doing.

My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in the 1950s.

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

I read every one of the books on the shelf marked American Negro Literature. I became a nationalist, a colour nationalist, through the writings of men and women who lived a world away from me.

Increasingly, corporate nationality is whatever a corporation decides it is.

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.

There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can.

Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

Russia's number-one goal is to pull apart the E.U., to pull apart NATO.

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.