Quotes About Impact

I want to play a big role on special teams, too.

I ended up staying 10 years in Boston. It was nine as GM but 10 years there. That seemed about right: long enough to try to make a difference and try to contribute to winning teams and some championships.

There is no point in winning contests if you can't leave mental scars on the minds of the opposition teams.

I've learned that if you don't have anyone opposing your work, if you don't have anyone thinking, 'Man, that should be me. I could do that. I should have thought of that, or they must have teams of people doing it for them,' your work simply isn't reaching enough people to be relevant.

I think greatness is always good for the NBA. Great players, great teams - it's always good for the NBA.

When you have your star players that decide to use their platform, one, their platforms are bigger than everyone else's, and two, they're a force to be reckoned with because teams don't want to lose that talent. They're a force to be heard.

That's what good teams do right there: We come together - and go boom!

Other teams fear me so much, just my being out there. I could even be playing on my deathbed, and I'd worry them.

My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?

2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.

2Pac the only artist that ever made me shed a tear.

Words are everything in this life - they can tear you down and abuse you, or they can make you feel so wonderful and loved.

You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.

Tearing apart a community, a business, and a family will make America worse off, every time.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.

A couple of girls I've signed autographs for have just cried or broken out into tears.

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

I saw Adrien Brody's Oscar speech and was moved to tears.

I grew up listening to a lot of very smart pop records by artists like Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Prince, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, The The.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

The amount of people that have said, 'You've inspired me to be confident. I've come out to my friends because of you,' that reduces me to tears every time, because I'm just, like, little old me from Hull has had an implication on somebody's life. That's massive to me. Massive.

When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.

And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.