Benches Quotes - Page 9

• When Javy Baez goes out there, man, you saw him before the game sitting on the bench, saw him waving into the camera, he's just being himself. I love that.

  Joe Maddon

  Men, Games, Saws

  Source: m.cubs.mlb.com

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• Every man in the game, from the minors on up, is not only fighting against the other side, but he's trying to hold onto his own job against those on his own bench who'd love to take it away. Why deny this? Why minimize it? Why not boldly admit it?

  Ty Cobb

  Jobs, Fighting, Men

  Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

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• As a goalkeeper, you can't come off the bench for 10 minutes and prove your worth - it's either you're in or you're out.

  Joe Hart

  Goalkeepers, Minutes, Prove

  "Joe Hart: Man City keeper says he is 'surplus to requirements'". Interview With Steve Bower, www.bbc.com. March 10, 2017.

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• We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?'

  Otto Rehhagel

  Sports, Football, Running

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• Individual grievances and pet peeves have got to go by the wayside. Generally, you don't have to worry about the guys who are playing every day, it's the guys who are sitting on the bench that are the ones that get needles in their pants.

  Walter Alston

  Worry, Guy, Pet

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• You can't get rich sitting on the bench.

  Phil Linz

  Sitting, Rich, Get Rich

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• We're just a fragile team right now. It seems like when we have a little bit of adversity, when something goes wrong, you can feel it on the bench, it kind of sinks. Unless we get a goal or something really positive happens, it's tough. I think falling out of the playoff race takes the wind out of your sails for sure.

  Wes Walz

  Team, Fall, Adversity

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• If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.

  Deborah Rhode

  Winning, Argument, Offensive

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• [Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and that he largely enacted from the bench.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Political, Vision, Election

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Initially the papers said that the fact that Louis Brandeis was picked because he was Jewish. The New York Sun said he's the first Jew ever picked for the bench - a long and bitter fight expected in the Senate over confirmation.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  New York, Fighting, Long

  Source: www.slate.com

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• In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans.

  Edward Kennedy

  Average, Judging, Decision

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• In an era when America is still too divided by race and by riches, Judge [Samuel] Alito has not written one single opinion on the merits in favor of a person of color alleging race discrimination on the job: in 15 years on the bench, not one.

  Edward Kennedy

  Jobs, Race, Color

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

  Herb Kohl

  Character, Court, Competence

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.

  David Krumholtz

  Retirement, Home, Talking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The last year I was playing, I asked the stick boy to get me a Diet Coke and he said, "Really?" But I always had one on the bench because that's what I did in 1979 when there wasn't Gatorade. If you needed energy you went and got a Snickers or a Kit Kat. Nobody knew any better.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Boys, Years, Energy

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Ambition, School, Law

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg on becoming ‘Notorious’". "NewsHour Bookshelf" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. October 10, 2016.

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• I get paid to play football, not to sit on the bench, I don't enjoy that. Over the years loads of players have been very happy to do that and pick up their money. That used to really wind me up.

  Kevin Kilbane

  Football, Player, Wind

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• There are “bus bench” workouts and “park bench” workouts. A bus bench and a park bench look exactly the same, but your expectations sitting in them are radically different.

  Dan John

  Workout, Expectations, Different

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• Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Judging, Opinion

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• The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.

  Shana Alexander

  Drama, Aquariums, Play

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• Budapest in late May is a city of lilacs. The sweet, languid, rather sleepy smell of lilacs wafts everywhere. And it is a city of lovers, many of them quite middle-aged. Walking with their arms around each other, embracing and kissing on park benches. A sensuousness very much bound up (it seems to me) with the heady ubiquitous smell of lilacs.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sweet, Kissing, Cities

  Joyce Carol Oates (1988). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, E P Dutton

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• The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

  Beatrice Webb

  Men, May, Opinion

  Beatrice Webb (1956). “Diaries, 1924-1932”

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• My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Tombstone, Grandmother, People

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• Anyone who's had a shower and hasn't ingested illegal narcotics within a couple of days stands out on a bench in the courthouse.

  Alafair Burke

  Couple, Standing Out, Illegal

  Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.159, Macmillan

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• Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, glide along fence tops, and slink under benches.

  Caroline Paul

  Lying, Cat, Animal

  Caroline Paul (2013). “Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology”, p.31, A&C Black

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