Off The Sidelines Quotes

#1. We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama.

Tim Pawlenty

#2. For me, getting off the sidelines means women making a difference by letting their voices be heard on the issues they care about.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#3. If you stay on the sidelines of the here and now then your future will only ever be a pale version of a dream you never had the courage to experience.

Amanda Howells

#4. My all-time favorite interception was picking off Peyton Manning back in 2007, the one-hander down the sideline.

Antonio Cromartie

#5. There definitely needs to be water on the sidelines for these players, but I also had some Gatorade just in case they were allergic to the water or vice versa.

John Madden

#6. Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter.

Garrison Keillor

#7. Michelle Tafoya - best NFL sideline reporter - period. She is always prepared and professional.

Megan Alexander

#8. I don't want to be a princess who sits on the sidelines; I want to be present and actively involved. It's a life with a purpose.

Charlene, Princess Of Monaco

#9. When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm

Pele

#10. Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

Nelson Mandela

#11. ..why sit on the sidelines of life at any age?

Dick Van Dyke

#12. Michael Vick almost got hurt on the sideline.

Mike Tirico

#13. My group ridiculed and made fun of anyone who was not like us, and that comprised almost everyone! People with negative identity drop out and stand on the sidelines of life, making fun of everyone else. In actuality I was terrified of life.

John Bradshaw

#14. We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem - a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services.

Jenny McCarthy

#15. You must think your pretty cool huh, just playing the critic and judging the world from the sidelines.

Lucille Kallen

#16. We have to be in the center of action in order not to end up on the sidelines

Sunday Adelaja

#17. The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field

Wendy Mass

#18. The four brothers and three sisters were by all accounts a formidable team who rarely lost a match, partly, it is said, because of the intimidation felt by opposing teams at the sight of Walter standing on the sidelines with a wand in one hand and a meat cleaver in the other.

J.K. Rowling

#19. While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people.

Dave Reichert

#20. It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

Dee Dee Myers

#21. The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that I wanted to have my Games. I understood that it wouldn't be easy to make them, especially now that in Russia there are a lot of strong girls.

Adelina Sotnikova

#22. You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.

Judith McNaught

#23. No one gets to the top, if they sit on the sidelines, or if they don't believe in themselves.

Sheryl Sandberg

#24. I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.

Kevin Durant

#25. Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression

Harun Yahya

#26. Why do you bother, Crispin? You married a fighter, so stop trying to convince her that the sidelines suit her better.

Jeaniene Frost

#27. Critics are those righteous experts who judge other people's hard earned accomplishmens as they themselves stand on the sidelines of life.

Aaron Lauritsen

#28. And I did what I do best. I watched, alone, from the sidelines. I saw.

Belle Whittington

#29. I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.

Brandi Chastain

#30. Ah, jeez ... She really is a cheerleader.' And it seemed suddenly that this was true- not because she was an airhead or a hottie or a nonjock, but because she could throw herself so wholeheartedly into someone else's cause, because she could care so much and try so hard from the sidelines.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#31. I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.

Peter Dinklage

#32. I'll give my heart and soul whenever I step on that field and even when I'm on the sidelines. And at the end of the day, that's really all you can ask of someone.

Tim Tebow

#33. The writer,' said Donald Barthelme, 'is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do.' In this mode of not-knowing, the thick-torsoed, literal, and crew-cut mind is moved to the sidelines in favor of the swinging, perceptive, light-footed, tutu-wearing subconscious.

George Saunders

#34. Notice some of the beauty around you.Partake in joy. And when you get the choice to watch on the sidelines or to dance, get out there and dance- Lee Ann Womack

Ellyn Spragins

#35. Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors of power.

Menzies Campbell

#36. Women in sports television are allowed to read headlines, patrols sidelines, and generally facilitate conversation for their male colleagues. Sometimes, they even let us monitor the Internet from a couch.

Katie Nolan