On The Sideline Quotes

#1. In his time both on the field and on the sideline, Jack Pardee will forever be a part of the Washington Redskins' legacy.

Daniel Snyder

#2. I was very emotional. I cried when I got into the locker room. I didn't want to show that stuff on the sideline.

Dez Bryant

#3. We need the quarterbacks. It's a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing - the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses - we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline.

John Madden

#4. They don't draft you to sit there and stand on the sideline.

Torrey Smith

#5. I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

Roz Chast

#6. When we played against Dan Marino, the best defense was to keep him on the sideline. By keeping him on the sideline, you made him frustrated. You made him anxious. When he came on the field, he felt like he had to score every time. I think that is where Peyton Manning is.

Boomer Esiason

#7. I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.

Claudio Reyna

#8. I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.

Bobby Bowden

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

Mike Tirico

#10. Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it's like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.

John Madden

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Brian Haig

#12. I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.

Chuck Pagano

#13. During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails.

Jerry Tarkanian

#14. Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.

J.R. Moehringer

#15. I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of ... that gives you a certain power over it.

Kate Grenville

#16. When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'

Aaron Rodgers

#17. I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

Paul Auster

#18. All I know is that when you look over at the coaches on the other sideline, and all you see are guys who either coached with you or played for you, then you know it's time to get out.

Sid Gillman

#19. In my view, the amateur does not love the game enough. If he did, he would not pursue it as a sideline, distinct from his "real" vocation.

Steven Pressfield

#20. Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

Iggy Pop

#21. It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.

Will Rogers

#22. Footwork is definitely key for a linebacker. We make our money playing laterally. You've got to be able to move side to side and play sideline to sideline. So doing quick feet drills like ladders and keeping your footwork right is important.

Brandon Spikes

#23. I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

Samuel West

#24. Asking that woman to take a sideline seat is like asking Johnny Depp to stop being hot.

Jana Deleon

#25. God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.

Francis Chan

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

Antonio Cromartie

#27. A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

Ron Jaworski

#28. Yeah, okay, that's how I was leaning. I thought about Oberon, how she ran her department, all those cops - and used her handpicked to run her dirty cop sideline.

J.D. Robb

#29. We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.

Shaun White

#30. Golf is my real profession. Entertainment is just a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees.

Bob Hope

#31. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.

Rick Reilly

#32. My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

Michael Jordan

#33. We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.

Rick Warren

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

Megan Alexander

#35. When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.

Tom Scholz

#36. There have always been and there always will be the peripheral sideline activities which are a form of entertainment, which is to say you pay a couple of cents and you see something freakish. That is what reality TV is.

Mike Leigh

#37. The Reacher brothers' need for caffeine makes heroin addiction look like an amusing little take-it-or-leave-it sideline.

Lee Child