Sidelines Quotes - Page 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

  Inspirational, Powerful, Fate

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• I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines

  Paul Wellstone

  Thinking, Cynical

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.8, Random House

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• It is not the critic who counts

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Military, Failure

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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

  Kevin Durant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Winning

  "BDL Interview: Kevin Durant". Interview with Trey Kerby, sports.yahoo.com. August 12, 2010.

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• I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Team, Valentine

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• 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

  Believe, Men, Play

  Interview With Brit Hume, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Badass, Military

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• 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

  Office, President, Vices

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• 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

  Soccer, Sports, Mom

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

  Peter Dinklage

  Fun, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

  Christopher Reeve

  Attention, Limitless, Turns

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• Without running, I would have missed the joy of rain. What could be considered an inconvenience or a bummer to the inexperienced is actually a gift. Without running, I would miss a lot of things-like seeing cities in a certain way, or knowing certain people all the way to the core. I'm glad we don't experience life through glass, under cover, or from the sidelines. Good things take miles.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Rain, Glasses

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• I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Fighting, Talking

  Barack Obama's Victory Speech in Chicago, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Usa, Effort, President

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• The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian.

  James Stuart Stewart

  Christian, Jesus, Character

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• 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

  People, House, Energy

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• 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

  Country, Government, President

  "Tim Pawlenty Reacts to First 2012 Republican Presidential Debate". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2011.

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

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Mind, Body

  "Your First Year a Rookie's Journey in Coaching". Book by Jason O. Smith (p. 8), August 18, 2009.

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• Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Destiny, Men

  Press Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 3, 2017.

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

  Bobby Bowden

  Coaches, Standing, Asks

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• This is about Americans getting off the sidelines and getting onto the playing field, .. This is about each and every one of us who have been blessed by the wealth of this country sharing that blessing by reaching down and reaching back and lifting up somebody in need. That's what America is all about. That's what being American is all about.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Blessed, Blessing

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• If you are young child and you've lost mother and dad to AIDS and rich nations sit on the sidelines not caring, you will become a frustrated person and a hopeless person.

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Children, Dad

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• 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

  Team, Winning, Made

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• It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Sports, Cheer, People

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• The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.

  Thomas Sowell

  Doers, Talkers, Resent

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