Top 100 Quotes About The Sidelines
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. No one gets to the top, if they sit on the sidelines, or if they don't believe in themselves.
Sheryl Sandberg
#4. I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.
Kevin Durant
#5. Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression
Harun Yahya
#6. Why do you bother, Crispin? You married a fighter, so stop trying to convince her that the sidelines suit her better.
Jeaniene Frost
#7. Critics are those righteous experts who judge other people's hard earned accomplishmens as they themselves stand on the sidelines of life.
Aaron Lauritsen
#8. And I did what I do best. I watched, alone, from the sidelines. I saw.
Belle Whittington
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.
Peter Dinklage
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
Nelson Mandela
#22. ..why sit on the sidelines of life at any age?
Dick Van Dyke
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. You must think your pretty cool huh, just playing the critic and judging the world from the sidelines.
Lucille Kallen
#26. We have to be in the center of action in order not to end up on the sidelines
Sunday Adelaja
#27. The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field
Wendy Mass
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. You cannot be the leader of the free world and sit on the sidelines and tweet and think you're going to get the job done.
Kevin McCarthy
#31. To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.
Scilla Elworthy
#32. Well now, Jack," Hastings said from the sidelines. "I'm afraid you've been beheaded. Not a good start." He sounded amused.
Cinda Williams Chima
#33. As a government leader, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and watch all these other sectors innovate. I'm going to do everything I can as a leader to be in that innovation, to be a provocateur for that innovation.
Cory Booker
#34. The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena!
Tim Cook
#35. Twitter, far from fostering debate and broadening minds, has turned us into a hive of scolds. Angry mobs wait on the sidelines to strike and then bask in the glow of their moral superiority.
Mick Hume
#36. But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang.
Ian McDiarmid
#37. I like the South because it is so much warmer on the sidelines than it is up North.
Tom Landry
#38. Just you wait till I'm a vampire! I'm not going to be sitting on the sidelines next time.
Stephenie Meyer
#39. Perfectionists often position themselves on the sidelines, from which they point out that nothing is good enough.
Rebecca Solnit
#40. Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for the most part, it's kind of relegated to the sidelines.
Adam Schlesinger
#41. Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
#42. Dexter Blake liked a woman with some junk in her trunk. And the tall, curvy chick on the sidelines was packing a whole lot of booty.
She had one of those itty-bitty waists, too. And her cups floweth'd over.
Staring at her chest was practically a religious experience.
Amy Andrews
#43. It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.
Anish Kapoor
#44. Fair-minded people 'get in the game' rather than criticizing from the sidelines.
Frank Sonnenberg
#45. As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate against Christian families.
Robert Simonds
#46. After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
Mary Cheney
#47. I don't ever want to be a fair-weather anything. Playing through the elements is always better than sitting on the sidelines.
Lorii Myers
#48. The people follow what the media say. So if you said that Bruno Dumont is fantastic, it follows that more people would go to see my films. I have no wish to remain on the sidelines. I have no wish to make films that are only seen by bohemians in London and Paris.
Bruno Dumont
#49. Look, you couldn't pay me to listen to their music, but I still feel like I have more in common with Insane Clown Posse than I do with someone who just sits on the sidelines and shits on other people's work and who never puts themselves on the line.
Tom Scharpling
#50. I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.
Don Watson
#51. Matthew 11:12? "From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it." Are you playing offense in your marriage? Or are you playing a prevent defense that leaves romance on the sidelines?
Mark Batterson
#52. Three Denises wobbled in front of her, all of them watching her with fond concern. You're a sweetie. I appreciate you cheering me on from the sidelines. But I think I need to go to the bathroom now and throw up.
Sarah Mayberry
#53. It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.
Fran Tarkenton
#54. People keep pushing me to be the center of attention ... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.
Gong Li
#55. Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.
Nancy Gibbs
#56. The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.
Thomas Sowell
#57. You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.
Wendy Kopp
#58. Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else's life. God is saying, 'Don't sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.'
Victoria Osteen
#59. I like using one QB. If we have two that are relatively equal, then we can't afford to have one on the bench. They need to be on the field at running back, receiver or defensive back. I'm not going to waste an athlete on the sidelines.
Alan Chadwick
#60. There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.
Dean Smith
#61. Because when you're watching from the sidelines, invisible, it's easy to see clearly.
Cassandra Clare
#62. People ask me what Nick (Saban) says to me on the sidelines. It is just, 'I love you so much. Can we just run some.'
Lane Kiffin
#63. My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head ... I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.
Jack Tatum
#64. Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.
Nancy Gibbs
#65. My heart throbs and aches and, for once, it's not for myself. It's for all of us. It's for everyone who knows what it's like to be helpless, to have to watch on the sidelines, to be paralyzed, literally unable to do anything.
Sarah Wylie
#66. People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.
Tony Dungy
#67. Frankly I was a little surprised at the unfair press coverage you and your partner received. Sometimes I wonder at people who live their safe lives on the sidelines, yet still want to make all the calls.
Janice Cantore
#68. It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.
Robert Kiyosaki
#69. I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.
Gregory Maguire
#70. I was a college football fanatic, and I wanted to play, not sit on the sidelines. It's tough when you know you're just a project.
Chad Pennington
#71. It's a lot easier to opine from the sidelines.
Dee Dee Myers
#72. You must think I'm a complete idiot right? That I'm just some doormat who'll wait for you on the sidelines forever? That you can keep running back to her every time things get difficult and I'll just be okay with it?!
Stephanie Perkins
#73. I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.
Paul Krugman
#74. Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.
Roger Ebert
#75. Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead of raising our voices and making our own choices. Scotland's much vaunted partnership of Jonah and the whale.
Winnie Ewing
#76. When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#77. I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.
Paul Wellstone
#78. Again with the us. My heart beat a little faster. How many times had I dreamed of being one of the chosen few? To be truly accepted by the in crowd instead of sitting on the sidelines of my own life?
Kay Cassidy
#79. Sorry, investing was pretty boring and I really missed being part of building something. I felt like I was always standing on the sidelines, so Zappos ... really liked the people there and got involved full-time and I've been full-time ever since.
Tony Hsieh
#80. Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.
Christine Feehan
#81. I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.
Jami Attenberg
#82. 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
#83. As a Christian, we can't stand on the sidelines with no team jersey or team colors to show our allegiance to Christ.
Monica Johnson
#84. She was climbing Mount Everest and the air was invigorating and wonderful. Even if every second verged on crisis, this was part of living - not just watching from the sidelines.
Jacqueline Susann
#85. Sitting on the sidelines in our interconnected world is not a sufficient response.
Dillon Burroughs
#86. Don't be afraid to ask people 'why,' 'what if.' Don't be afraid to attack your career. Get in the game, don't stay on the sidelines.
Beth Mowins
#87. In Europe, Murrow observed to his wife, people were dying and "a thousand years of civilization [were] being smashed" while America remained on the sidelines. How could one possibly be objective or neutral about that?
Lynne Olson
#89. she could begin again and not become so entangled in this long, horrible war, would she watch from the sidelines as a spectator this time? Would she choose differently, take fewer risks? Caroline
Austin, Lynn
#90. In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. You take the rest - my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.
Richard Rodriguez
#91. We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate ... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.
Christopher Reeve
#93. God is never on the sidelines of His children's lives. He goes before them. He leads them, guides them, protects and saves them.
Monica Johnson
#94. 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
#95. I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
Gary Johnson
#96. God made us for more than just barely getting by. We weren't meant to sit on the sidelines of life because with God, we are on the winning team!
Joel Osteen
#97. Everything has changed. The instant the car slid across the wet tarmac, my whole life changed. I can see everything clearly, as though I am standing on the sidelines. I can't go on like this.
Clare Mackintosh
#98. Do not let fear keep you on the sidelines. Your number has been called, get in the game! It is your time to shine.
E'yen A. Gardner
#99. Vladimir Putin uses fascist propaganda to do so. From Ukraine to Syria, he is behaving like the world's new general and celebrating victories, while the American president sits on the sidelines and Europe sleeps. The West's behavior toward Putin is political and moral capitulation.
Garry Kasparov
#100. I remember hating New Kids on the Block from the sidelines because all of the girls loved them. They would just fawn over them. 'Oh my gosh, Joey I love you!' When I was younger, I really couldn't stand them.
Dule Hill
