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I had no support, no opportunity, no sponsors backing me for most of my career. -- Mary Kom
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. -- Tallulah Bankhead
I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors. -- Nastia Liukin
Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent. -- Norman Granz
The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that. -- Stuart Appleby
Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer? -- Ahmed Yassin
A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever. -- Morley Safer
Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs. -- Danica Patrick
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. -- Mignon McLaughlin
The longest word in the world is "a word from our sponsor." -- Sam Levenson
I've always supported the DREAM Act. I'm a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act. -- Mario Diaz-Balart
If you think I've got a lot of sponsors, you should see the stuff I turn down. -- Shaun White
Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors. -- Caroline Baum
We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to succeed as much as men. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened. -- Morley Safer
The year was 1996, Guy Mariano and I had no clothing sponsors, and at that point in our lives we had purchased enough Polo, Hilfiger and Nautica gear to think, hey, maybe we should start a clothing company. -- Eric Koston
I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding. -- Jackie Cooper
When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch. -- Michel Patini
Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old. -- Suzy Favor Hamilton
The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions - whenever asked - cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination. -- Susan Sontag
Contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not improve race relations or enhance freedom. Instead, the forced integration dictated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 increased racial tensions while diminishing individual liberty. -- Ron Paul
Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance. -- Barbara Stanwyck
We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors. -- Anatoly Karpov
Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are. -- Jesse Ventura
I also appreciate the lasting friendships I've made while working with our great sponsors through the years, including Miller Lite, Shell and Dodge. -- Kurt Busch
The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors. -- Lucy Walker
Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution. -- T.I.
The Olympics are only once every four years, so you have to take advantage of all your opportunities, both to be an inspiration to people and help support your sponsors who help you. -- Lolo Jones
The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you. -- Paul Schrader
The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television. -- Michael Franti
If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it. -- Maurice Greene
In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors. -- Laure Manaudou
The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet. -- Rainn Wilson
Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola. -- Mark Burnett
For your friends and family, you are always a champion, but for the media and sponsors, not until you show a spark. Making a champ is more important than celebrating one. I want to be there for youngsters and help them do their best. -- Gagan Narang
There are consequences if you stand up for what you believe. Heck, you might - you might lose your sponsors if you're a talk show host; or if you're running for office, you know, people not give to you or people might not vote for you. -- Louie Gohmert
I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday. -- Dick Gephardt
I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver. -- Tom Kristensen
I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that. -- Laura Schlessinger
When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley. -- Gary Neville
The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'm sure its sponsors have not fully considered. -- Richard Carmona
Don't ask for cash from sponsors, imagine what they want -- Matt Prior
We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors -- Anatoly Karpov
Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness. -- Susan Sontag
I have no sponsors because I am not blond, tall and slim enough -- Marion Bartoli
I'm not doing it for media attention, not doing it for sponsors, not for money. -- Nastia Liukin
Every GP Masters race will stand out because we will be available for fans, media and sponsors. -- Nigel Mansell
Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors. -- Zubin Mehta
Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since '87. I've been riding for both of them. -- Craig Kelly
People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors. -- John Sweeney
When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that. -- Shaun White
Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return. -- Doug Casey
On the seemingly one-sided relationship between Michael Jordan and his shoe sponsors Nike- The company should change its name to Mike. -- Alvin Robertson
A lot of people don't know the USOC is not government funded and they are always looking for support from sponsors. -- Dominique Dawes
In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors. -- Kalle Lasn
When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it. -- Ron Kauk
I'm thrilled I have the opportunity to do the 'Spread' show and have the terrific sponsors that we work with like Nikon or Verizon. -- Dave Navarro
I'm in a perfect position. I don't want to be more famous and I can't lose sponsors, so I can say anything I want. -- Doug Stanhope
The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer War). -- D. J. Taylor
A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have no responsibility to anyone but myself and the subjects. -- JR
The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz - because this is a national treasure. -- Lee Morgan
His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience. -- Lewis H. Lapham
Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times. -- Gagan Narang
I can do ALL THINGS through Christ who empowers, enriches, equips, enlightens, energizes, recreates, revives, promotes, strengthens, purifies, sponsors, and prepares me! Yes, I can... ALL THINGS, I can! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I love my sponsors. They make things so much fun for me. We do really fun and exciting things, so I always have a blast. It doesn't ever seem like work. -- Lexi Thompson
Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors? -- Jim Hightower
To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great. -- David Millar
The world of extreme sports is also one of the big businesses. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors. -- Lucy Walker
If you are a driver of a team and have a certain set of sponsors, who is the target market for those sponsors? But, of course, it is also a question of nationality. -- Martin Sorrell
The Olympics are only once every four years so you have to take advantage of all your opportunities, both to be an inspiration to people and help support your sponsors who help you, -- Lolo Jones
Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror. -- Frank Gaffney

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