Benches Quotes - Page 3

• You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.

  Keith Hernandez

  Relief, Pitching

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• I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Baseball, Want

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• In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman

  Constance Baker Motley

  Views

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• Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.

  Charles Schumer

  Warrior, Law, Judging

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• I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Teacher, Piano, Age

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• The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

  Thomas Jordan Jarvis

  School, Men, Office

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• Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Autumn, Thinking, Bird

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• I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Work Out, Pandas, Actors

  "Ryan Reynolds: ‘I Have Daddy Issues’". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would long for the lunch hour, when I would be able to escape the torture of the office and stroll over to the churchyard and into the comforting wooden embrace of one of its benches.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Morning, Jobs, Years

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 03, 2006.

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• The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.

  Charles Bukowski

  Flower, Trying, Parks

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader”, p.46, Harper Collins

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• [The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so childishly to toddle along the benches, nay, to creep in the mire, and cannot skip and dance, on such light feet and legs, over and outside of God's commandments, as they do, the strong heroes and giants ... God forbid that we should!

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Sarcastic, Strong

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• The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Latin, Book, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

  Tacitus

  Winning, Opponents, Fame

  Cornelius Tacitus, Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb (1911). “The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus and The Dialogue on Oratory: Translated Into English with Notes and Maps”

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• Spotted Park Bench
  I am a park bench.
  Ordinary words cannot
  express my thoughts on birds.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Bird, Ordinary, Parks

  J. Patrick Lewis (2014). “If You Were a Chocolate Mustache”, p.98, Highlights Press

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• When lifting weights, nothing feels better than achieving a high point on the bench press with no help from your spotter.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Feel Better, Bodybuilding

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• Certain guys are like relief pitchers; they come off the bench, they don’t know when they’re playing – you come in and you just go. Certain guys, they like to start; they like to start the game and play. I believe Kirk Cousins is a reliever. I don’t know if he’s a starter.

  Marshall Faulk

  Cousin, Believe, Games

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• There is no better coach than the bench.

  Anson Dorrance

  Coaches

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• For young males that weigh between 150-200 lbs., deadlifts can move up 15-20 lbs. per workout, squats 10-15 lbs., with continued steady progress for 3-4 weeks before slowing down to half that rate. Bench presses, presses, and cleans can move up 5-10 lbs. per workout, with progress on these exercises slowing down to 2.5-5 lbs. per workout after only 2-3 weeks. Young women make progress on the squat and the deadlift at about the same rate, adjusted for bodyweight, but much slower on the press, the bench press, cleans, and assistance exercises.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Workout, Moving, Exercise

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• One time in spring training, we had the hit-and-run on, and Carl Erskine threw me a curve and I struck out into a double play. I came back to the bench and Casey [Stengel] said, 'next time, tra-la-la.' I didn't know what tra-la-la meant, but next time up, I hit a line drive, right into a double play. When I sat down, Casey came over and said, 'Like I told you, tra-la-la.'

  Whitey Herzog

  Running, Spring, Curves

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• Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.

  Paavo Haavikko

  Over You, Fur, Ears

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• It gladdens me to know that Baldr’s father [Odin] makes ready the benches for a banquet. Soon we shall be drinking ale from the curved horns. The champion who comes into Odin’s dwelling [Valhalla] does not lament his death. I shall not enter his hall with words of fear upon my lips. The Æsir will welcome me. Death comes without lamenting… Eager am I to depart. The Dísir summon me home, those whom Odin sends for me [Valkyries] from the halls of the Lord of Hosts. Gladly shall I drink ale in the high-seat with the Æsir. The days of my life are ended. I laugh as I die.

  Ragnar Lodbrok

  Father, Drinking, Home

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• To those who don't think defense is important, you'll get the best seat on the bench.

  Rick Majerus

  Thinking, Important, Defense

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• Lifting weights is obviously important, because you want to be strong and fast and all of that, but it's not one of those things you gotta go and try to bench as much as you can every day. A bench press isn't going to help you throw a 15-yard out or a deep comeback. It's not about that. It's about training right

  Mark Sanchez

  Strong, Lifting Weights, Training

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• As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Marine, Volcanoes, Opposites

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• In my legal practice, I have seen certain Federal judges controlled or influenced by large corporations..., by large law firms...on more than one occasion(, and) ...by special interests...(some) ought to be thrown right off the bench because they are breaking every code of conduct.

  Orrin Hatch

  Dark, Law, Practice

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