Quotes About Playing Catch Up

#1. I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.

Lorraine Toussaint

#2. How can we not still be rooting for the younger versions of ourselves as if they actually exist, playing catch-up in time? Who wouldn't like to implant their current brains into a scenario from the past?

Sloane Crosley

#3. After my parents got divorced, I had to go right into public school in the fourth grade. The Steiner school had never really taught me how to read, so it was a rude awakening. I was playing catch-up the whole time.

Justin Theroux

#4. With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.

Jay Inslee

#5. We can't keep playing catch up as we have done for every season I've been here.

Paul Ince

#6. Competition for the future is competition to create and dominate emerging opportunities-to stake out new competitive space. Creating the future is more challenging than playing catch up, in that you have to create your own roadmap.

Gary Hamel

#7. DC are playing catch up with Marvel because of things like 'The Avengers' breaking six hundred million domestic.

Greg Rucka

#8. My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.

Jan Karon

#9. I missed out on the Spice Girls. I missed out on all those big pop phenomenon and missed out even on the Madonna records. It's okay, cuz I'm playing catch-up on everything now.

Katy Perry

#10. Rich old people are more attractive than poor old people, so by all means, try to get rich before age sets in. Otherwise, you'll just be playing catch-up for the rest of your life and that will just wear you out, let me tell you.

Jill Conner Browne

#11. I was the youngest kid on my street, the youngest comic in the clubs. I always felt like I was playing catch-up. I was very angry.

Jay Mohr

#12. My goal was to become the best dancer in the world and, because I started late, I always had this feeling I was playing catch-up, so I've been a bit of a maniac most of my life, sort of striving.

Anton Du Beke

#13. Change is the law. Stability and consistency are illusions, temporary in any case, a heroic achievement of human will and persistence at best. When we want things to stay the same, we'll always wind up playing catch-up.

John Brockman

#14. It's always interesting to be playing against some of my best friends and some of my longtime teammates. You get to see them before the game and after the game and it's always nice to catch up but when the whistle blows it's sort of all business on the field.

Heather O'Reilly

#15. When you catch me playing something at home, it's somebody else's stuff where I can what we call steal licks from, and that's how I taught myself how to play.

Buddy Guy

#16. In '05, '06, '07 and '08, I wasn't throwing any changeups at all. Maybe two or three per game. In '09, I started playing with the grip, started throwing it in the bullpen and playing catch. It came out really good.

Felix Hernandez

#17. I would have chatted with Tempi, but trying to have a conversation with him was like playing catch with a well.

Patrick Rothfuss

#18. The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator.

Thomas Boswell

#19. April was too lonely a month to spend alone. In April, everyone around me looked happy. People would throw their coats off and enjoy each other's company in the sunshine - talking, playing catch, holding hands. But I was always by myself

Haruki Murakami

#20. I don't give sick days if you're playing in the snow." He's being funny, or trying to be funny. I can never tell which.

Zoe Cruz

#21. hough we travel the whole over to find the perfect match,we must carry it with us a light or it's playing hard to catch.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#22. I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

Damian Lewis

#23. Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

Ernie Harwell

#24. Mother," said little Pearl, "the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now, see! There it is, playing a good way off. Stand you here, and let me run and catch it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#25. You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

Chili Davis

#26. I don't. But if I had your love, I wouldn't waste it like he does. He's playing a game with you. He'll regret pushing you away, though, when he realizes I'm here, waiting to catch you.

Jessica Hawkins

#27. To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.

Karl Malone

#28. For my brother and me, there would be no 'Field of Dreams'-like playing catch, no nature lessons with our old man. Instead, it would be a darkened theater, the projector light coming on, and a new adventure unfolding.

Bob Weinstein

#29. I stood there for a moment, playing emotional catch-up.He drove down from the Navarre House just to surprise me with flowers.And not It's -Valentines's Day-and-I-feel-olbligated flowers.These were just-because flowers.

Chloe Neill

#30. To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.

Rob Machado

#31. My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

Mia Wasikowska

#32. It's like I'm split in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing the other half around this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this me can't catch her.

Haruki Murakami

#33. There is no just playing to catch the leader in a pick-and-pray - once your picks are in, that's it.

Peter T. Fornatale

#34. We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

Richard P. Feynman

#35. Whether it's playing catch or going to the weight room, you've just got to blend in and introduce yourself as you go along.

Tyler Beede

#36. I was playing catch with the European audience.

Charles Olson

#37. The year I gave up the 150-catch streak I had an ankle injury and didn't want to go back in because I'd have a better chance of playing the following week.

Ozzie Newsome

#38. Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch.

Tim McCarver

#39. Some of Bay's fondest memories were of lying under the apple tree in the summer while Claire gardened and the apple tree tossed apples at her like a dog trying to coax its owner into playing catch.

Sarah Addison Allen