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Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.

There is acknowledgement among the drivers, the teams, the sponsors and the fan base that in order to continue to grow, there will be some realignment in the race schedule.

We rule nothing out and have an open mind on women playing men's tour events, and if sponsors can convince us that it's in the interests of the game by including women, then fine,

We think the teams want to play there, we think the fans want to come there and we think the sponsors want to be there. That's pretty much the message that we gave the owners.

This tremendous show of support for improving the community is a tribute to the unconditional caring of our young people. It is heartening to me, our staff, our sponsors and all of our partners and volunteers to see the wonderful efforts of this next generation of leaders.

We are so proud of our Eagle Award winners and our championship teams. All of the GBA players worked extremely hard this year on their community service projects and on the court. We thank our sponsors for giving these kids a positive summer activity.

This should send a clear message to airport sponsors everywhere. Treat every user fairly and don't try to stop legal operations with illegal regulations.

When you don't get up and going until July 20, a lot of the corporate sponsors have already allocated.

We were talking about how bad we felt. The girls are getting sponsors for how many miles they run, for how much time they drop on their personal bests or just flat donations.

Without that, they would have very few sponsors, ... It's key to those sponsors and that's why those sports and those athletes are getting the money.

We have managed to secure sponsors and we are going to unveil the amounts next (this) week. At the moment, I cannot reveal how much these companies are pouring into our Davis Cup team but they have made a commitment to sponsor.

We are expanding our program to the Boca area, but we're always looking for more sponsors to come on board.

Fairness is so important because some sponsors are very generous.

We see this as something that threatens the image ... of the Olympics. I think that is the way most sponsors feel.

We've got a group of (U.S.) guys now who are colorful, smart, eloquent when they speak and are performing at the highest levels. I think it's time sponsors start changing their minds when they see the support we get internationally and nationally. ... I want to change people's opinions of our event.

We have a calendar raffle starting up, and we've sold cookie dough and had can drives. We're looking for business sponsors who'd like to place ads in our program.

This type of behavior cannot be tolerated and is in no way indicative of the manner in which our drivers, teams, tracks and sponsors interact with the media.

We want to give as much as we can back to our sponsors and benefactors,

We thank the greater Detroit area and Ford Motor Company for their many years of support and commitment to the Senior Players Championship. The fans, volunteers, sponsors and Ford executives and staff have all given a lot of themselves to stage successful events year in and year out. We look forward to having our best championship ever in 2006 and then a very exciting future at Baltimore Country Club beginning next year.

We lost a couple of major sponsors this year, and that was a real let down. We are making this concert happen by brute force. Cancer doesn't care about hurricanes.

When I started looking for a driver, I wanted someone who would be able to market himself and understand what the sponsors are looking for. But I also needed somebody who could win races. We found that in Rod.

We are very pleased with the great turnout we will entertain on Tuesday. We're very thankful our fans and sponsors for their support of D.C. United and United for D.C. The revenue generated from this great event will go to help many underprivileged and disadvantaged youth in the D.C. area.

Everybody that comes on these missions gets meetings. There are government meetings that are necessarily limited not necessarily by us. For some of these meetings, the sponsors do have access to these meetings.

Every sponsor wants to be a part of it, every driver, every team, but there are only so many pieces of the pie. If I don't make the chase, will I feel like I failed my sponsor? Yes, I will, because I've been in the top 10 all year long until the last month. We were almost counting our chickens before they were hatched around June, July, so it's going to be hard for me to look my sponsors in the face if we don't make it.

As the Ravens, we were not in a position that if our current sponsors didn't want to pursue the game that we could go to their competitors and offer it. We just wouldn't do that type of business. But, if we had a third party involved they would have that leverage.

A significant amount of time and effort went into the development of the FedEx Cup schedule to maximize the strength of our tournaments, sponsors and venues, while providing a logical flow geographically.

There's not too many people who could go up to their sponsors and ask them if they can take a year off of competing and just go for a good (film) segment. Thank God that I've got good relationships and I've kind of proved that I should be able to do what I want to do. They think whatever I'm going to be doing, it's going to be progressing the sport, and that's all I'm out there to do.

The world's not over with, ... I've got some great sponsors on this race car that believe in us whether we made it or not. I got a great car owner in Robert Yates. We've just got to try and maybe get that 11th spot.

These are the most sponsors we've ever had. It's become a community event. It's a social thing. Sponsors want to participate.

There will be so many different levels of involvement. Whether it is leadership or whether it's managing the construction process or coming up with our business strategy or our branding types of things, and designing our Web site and marketing, and contacting sponsors and things like that.

It was touch and go for most of the time. If Shell and our other sponsors had not come through, it would not have been possible. It would have just been too much.

These sponsors like the association with a team when there is an air of success around the club. They like linking their company to the success of the franchise.

The sponsors were even more keen because they wanted to have more of a brand awareness down here.

The sponsors made all the difference. Not only did they cover event costs but provided prizes for the student participants as well.

The sponsors have been great partners, and the area banking industry has been instrumental as well. The banks formed a consortium to finance the ballpark - they got creative so we could make this work. We won't forget their support and we won't forget the gracious support of all the partners who have made the Wild Things a reality!

The sponsors are the ones who have dictated that.

The sponsors also want to do a significant junior event, much like what we did with the pro-junior golf at the Sony Open.

The thing that stands out most about the 2006 Champions Tour schedule is its strength and continuity of our sponsorships. Within the last two years, many of our title sponsors have signed multi-year tournament extensions. As a result, the Champions Tour enjoys a very strong underpinning, with some contracts extending as far out as 2010. Our sponsors are committed to this Tour, and the Tour and its players are committed to them in return.

(I've) already got good response to it, got several sponsors here in town (who are) going to jump on the bandwagon and be part of it.

Sort of like the March of Dimes, the kids get sponsors uncles, classmates, older sisters and brothers, cousins to say, 'Hey, I'll give you a dollar or five dollars for one lap around the track. The kids do a quarter-mile lap, which is one lap around the track at Drake Stadium, and the kids raise money for other children.

Sometimes he says more than what he means, and you just laugh. I think any press is good in this sport, even if corporate sponsors don't like it.

Sometimes people think there is not enough support for college athletics without the beer industry, maybe. I don't know if that is true. There would be other sponsors that would be excited about uniting with college football.

Saturday's win enhances our reputation and ability to attract a bigger supporter base. Another factor is that we've already had three million free-to-air (television) viewers this year, and that gives you satisfied corporate sponsors and satisfied members throughout Australia.

Of the 42 tournaments at that time, probably as many as 15 or more were looking for title sponsors because of economic conditions. If it would have been at any other time, maybe the previous year, we probably would have found a title sponsor.

Of course, we can't pay the college players. And there isn't any money to pay the others. So one of our sponsors is Ramada Inn, and they have given us five rooms so that takes care of 10 women. The others live with families during the season. Some of them who are able to work here get jobs, but we practice twice a day and because of how spread out the league is, there is a lot of travel as well.

Adding Progressive Direct to our list of sponsors is a tremendous win for us. We benefit by aligning ourselves with a premier brand and Progressive Direct enjoys significant brand exposure both on-site at each race and through television broadcasts and other coverage.

Coleman was a great addition to the IMCA family of sponsors last season and will continue in that role this year. They were very active in attending IMCA events last year and I hope our members create an opportunity to talk with them throughout the 2006 season.

Despite the one day difference, we expect even greater excitement and participation from our players, sponsors and local community that contribute to the success of the Pro Bowl. Working closely with state and city officials, we look to continue the momentum from last month's game and surrounding events which were hailed as a success.

Depending on who the sponsors are, it's causing different votes to go different ways. Some of the members feel free enough to vote their conscience(s).

This is the first year we started it. Last year, we had four corporate sponsors at $2,500 each, but because the Chamber continues to have a deficit, even though we have made extreme cuts, we still have a gap to fill. So the board of directors decided that rather than going back to companies again this year and possibly next year that if we could get a single commitment then we wouldn't have to keep asking.

This is something that is long overdue. And the mayor agrees with me. I just hope enough corporate sponsors step up.

This image of us as being art supportive and very cultured is false, ... The money that we have now that is keeping this place going has come from Canada-the University of Toronto. When you come across sponsors like these gentlemen we have today, what it does for the individual artist is enormous. It means that we can feel that there is some direction to our lives.

They should speak to their sponsors and tell them that every fourth year they will be playing in South Africa at that time.

All of my sponsors want to capitalize on that (Classic) win. And I had a really busy schedule before all this happened.

There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that has to go on. There's the permits and the sponsors and the police that's a lot to get done in three weeks.

They're responsible for it, ... The changes they made, all the new rules, the sponsors coming forth, that is all because of the new ownership.

They're a huge attraction but they don't necessarily, after the first year or two, pay their way, so to speak. To some degree, as the newness wears off, even your corporate sponsors start to kind of fade away.

There is time for both. When I am driving a race car I am driving a race car. But I take a lot of pride in the sponsors I work with.

It's enhanced our golf tournament. Sponsors donating $500 or more to the tournament will get a link on our Web site. It's a great outlet for sponsors.

It means we have to find more sponsors and make up for the deficit it presents us with.

It's going to be nice. It's what the sponsors want and the spectators want. I always enjoy playing with Ernie and playing with him just makes you concentrate that little bit more.

It's getting bigger. I've had so many people ask me about it. I don't know if it'll ever be as big as a big-city anime con, but this year we've had companies contact us to be sponsors who we didn't even contact ourselves first. I'm betting it grows.

it should be clear that the burden of coming forward with adequate restructure proposals should be on the sponsors of the merger.

It's probably a slap in the face to the sponsors and to the public eye, it doesn't look good, I think.

It's my career and I do it to win the money in the tournaments which obviously is the base reason for it more than anything else but I also have sponsors for which I represent.

It's ungodly, I think, the pressure we get as drivers, not only from our sponsors but our car owners. I think the Chase last year, people recognized how much recognition the top 10 guys got by being a part of the Chase. Every sponsor wants to be a part of it, every driver, every team, but there are only so many pieces of the pie.

Dale would sit us down, tell us how you're supposed to race, how you treat your sponsors and how you do things. We don't have that stature figure anymore for young kids to look up to. It'd be neat to have another Dale Earnhardt step up and be the voice of all the drivers in the garage, but right now we don't have that.

The biggest support we've had is private, individual sponsors and three grants.

TCP brings active, affluent polo fans to sponsors at the live events while our agreement with ESPN will deliver the action of polo to fans across the world.

I've had positive discussions with (local boxing promoter) Ron Resnick regarding the use of his impressive ring facilities and with sponsors interested in supporting a training camp in Rochester. City and county officials seem excited about the idea. It's looking good at this point.

I've got sponsors that want me to hang out with them until 2 in the morning and drink some beer. I'm not that guy. At 11 o'clock, I'm dead asleep now.

None of the participants have a veto power and certainly the sponsors of the talks do not have the veto power, ... Compromise will be the basis for the solution.

It was a good day for us in the Sharpie 500. Anytime one af your major sponsors is also a sponsor of the race itself, you feel the need to reward them. I think we did that. It als gave us a chance to introduce the new 'Sharpie Mini,' which is half the size of the regular Sharpie.

A person's credibility does not depend on who sponsors him,

At times, the fishing part of it becomes very secondary. Any time we are not fishing a tournament, we are a representative of Tracker Marine. We are out there teaching people how to fish and promoting the product. The business part of it is a big part of our job. A lot of young guys ask me, 'I want to be a bass pro; how do I get there?' I tell them to hone their business skills and public speaking. The sponsors want someone who can help them sell product.

Expanding congressional representation for any territory is a pretty big decision, one that the conference should discuss and debate. Mr. Boehner has great respect for the bill's sponsors and would offer them the opportunity to make their case before the conference and our constituents.

The kids have surpassed our goal of $5,000. We are so very proud of them all. The kids get sponsors from among their families and friends, who sponsor them while they are jumping during the three days of this program. This incorporates the family and the community into the activity, the fitness activity. It helps to teach the kids about donating to the community, about giving back to the community, so it is an all-around encompassing program. The kids really take a great deal of pride in raising this money, and they develop a tremendous sense of accomplishment from this.

The cost to sponsor a train is $250. Sponsors will engage an artist, or artists, of their choice to turn their train into a work of art. We will be glad to suggest or give (sponsors) a list of artists,

I'm going to be busy these next several weeks rehabbing, training and getting healthy so that I can play my very best for myself, the fans, tournaments and sponsors in 2006. I tried my best to fight through my injuries during the season, but I now realize that I need to take some time off to rest my body and get back to being 100 percent healthy. I look forward to regaining my form and playing at the same highly competitive level that I have in the past. This has been such a disappointing year for me because I'm such a competitive person and I like to win for myself and for my fans.

I hope to have sponsors knocking on our door.

In climbing, sponsors typically support an athlete but provide very little direction, giving the climber free rein to follow his or her passion toward whatever is inspiring. It's a wonderful freedom, in many ways similar to that of an artist who simply lives his life and creates whatever moves him.

I know that when I signed with Suzuki, I didn't know it was going to be as good as it was. I was confident in my abilities and in the team and you've just got to give it up for Suzuki and all my sponsors - it's a long list, my wife, my parents... It's been a long career and a fun one.

I know that when I'm standing alone below a thousand-foot wall, looking up and considering a climb, my sponsors are the furthest thing from my mind. If I'm going to take risks, they are going to be for myself - not for any company.

I'm not sure what they're trying to do is legally right or is defensible in a court of law, but I want to be in this business, ... I don't want to jeopardize my sponsors and my drivers and our prospects in the near term, and too much distraction through an adjudication process would certainly not be in NASCAR's interest and would almost certainly not be in my interest and would very likely not have an outcome that I could be happy with.

I'm hoping more reasonable heads prevail. I don't know how this encourages new ownership and sponsors when penalties are handed down that affect the ability of people to bring in millions of dollars and see results. It's discouraging, to say the least.

I'll sit in on meetings, meet with sponsors ... we've got to brainstorm.

For myself, I warmly thank the Nobel Foundation and the Committee for Chemistry for this mark of their approbation and for an award which confers the highest distinction that a scientist can achieve. I am greatly beholden also to my sponsors and supporters.

I'd say there would be a number of clubs at this stage who can't find sponsors at the moment for their third-party agreements.

I don't think they want to admit that her draw is helping them, but it's the truth. Everyone from sponsors to teams to the IRL is benefiting from her. She's having the Tiger effect on TV ratings.

I have no sponsors because I am not blond, tall and slim enough

All have become regional leaders. It's a great tie-in. It's been proven time and again that NASCAR fans are extremely loyal to the sponsors of their sport. So this makes sense from every angle.

The Flying Tomato' - that pretty much sums it up. He's pretty much a goofball. It's all about having a good time. He's not too worried about who's who and what's what, or what sponsors are cool. He just lets his riding speak for himself. That's the way it should be.

The hairs on the back of my neck stick up with the thought of playing here, and then zooming off mid-week to play in China or Korea in a Champions League match, getting exposure to billions of people. From a commercial perspective, for sponsors and backers, the potential there is quite massive.

The image of sports is very important, particularly to the sponsors. Usually the sponsors are buying a good image when they support a particular sport. Take away the good image and you put funding at risk.

A lot tougher today. There's more pressure on young guys to really perform when maybe their team isn't as good as it needs to be. You've got sponsors spending millions of dollars, and owners spending some of their money and getting pressure from sponsors.

Aggressive bids from financial sponsors would clearly serve as an upside catalyst for the group as investors anticipate the potential for further industry consolidation.

All of a sudden, something that was dangerous was attractive to potential sponsors who saw it as a highly visible thing, like race cars. Or it was attractive to wealthy individuals who were looking to do something fun.

The goal long term is to represent a lot of sponsors and drivers. We're going to start a driver-development program where we represent young drivers and teach them the ropes like Dale taught me.

The funds raised enable us to continue our investment in the fight against cancer through research, education, advocacy and patient services. Thanks to the generosity of corporate sponsors like Wells' Dairy, Inc., Farmer's Co-op, Floyd Valley Hospital and Liz Foreman, the money raised by participants goes directly to the American Cancer Society's lifesaving programs.

The Final Four is becoming one of the premier events in the country from a corporate perspective. It's becoming more and more the approach of the big sponsors to leverage these events as opportunities to get close to their big clients.