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“Reasons for giving up the animals are various including moving home, not wanting the pets to distract the kids' study or simply because the dogs were too old or owners had no more patience for raising pets.”
Zhou Min
“It is definitely a distraction we don't want. We don't want players to be worried about it or to be asked about it. We want to get it done and then it will leave us all to concentrate on football. And I'm sure the ARU feels the same way about their search for a new coach too.”
Dan Crowley
“The familiar technique of counting to 10 not only provides the time needed for delay but also offers a distraction from the anger-arousing event. While busily counting, we are not mentally adding fuel to the fire of anger by mulling over whatever happened.”
Dan Johnston
“Nokia is a distraction at this point and time.”
Yra Harris
“Despite what people and coaches think, that athletes can always put distractions on the side, they can't. Players need to know in a black and white form what's going on.”
Darren Pang
“There's not a real distraction. Like Coach Shanahan tells us -- handle it the day before, and the day of the game, we can just focus on the game. I think we did a good job last week, and I think it'll be the same this week.”
Darrent Williams
“The kids were focused coming into tonight. All the distractions that I was worried about seemed to go away.”
David Fuhrer
“I agree. For us it's a real distraction. We're fighting hard for our Premiership existence. You see, once you get there, John, that's when your problems really begin.”
David Gold
“Nothing in the board's letter will distract Hewlett-Packard stockholders from focusing on the real issue, nor change this bad transaction into a good one,”
Walter Hewlett
“Our culture is about distraction, numbing oneself.”
David Greenfield
