Sitting On The Bench Quotes

• I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Attitude

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• Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.

  Maya Angelou

  Spiritual, Needs, Sitting

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.64, Bantam

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• It's easy to have chemistry when nobody is sitting on the bench.

  Shaka

  Sitting, Benches, Chemistry

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• Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.

  Barbara Johnson

  Anniversary, Happy Valentines Day, Love Is

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• It's frustrating at times when you think you've earned a chance to play on the field and you're over there sitting on the bench. That's not the kind of player I am. I'm the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute every minute of every game.

  Freddy Adu

  Player, Thinking, Games

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

  Phil Linz

  Sitting, Benches, Rich

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• Working your core always, your foot speed, jumping rope, push-ups and sit-ups - things like that are really important. Those things will pay off more than just doing what a bench press will.

  Mark Sanchez

  Feet, Jumping, Important

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• I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.

  Frank Lampard

  Years, Sitting, Benches

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• Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.

  Walt Disney

  Daughter, Children, Fun

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• I would never have thought I was capable of sitting on the bench as the number two man. And it showed me that you can really achieve everything in life, even the unthinkable, as long as you're willing to work on yourself a little bit.

  Oliver Kahn

  Men, Two, Numbers

  "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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• And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Life, Dream, Falling In Love

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 22, 2011

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• To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.

  Jens Lehmann

  Play, Insulting, Sitting

  "Almunia comes to terms with Lehmann's 'hate'" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2008.

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• 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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• How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break.

  Johnny Giles

  Soccer, Football, Team

  "Gottle Of Geer and Cantankerous Corkman" by Barry Glendenning and Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2005.

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• You don't look for jobs. You don't phone up 10 clubs and say, Here I am. You are offered the job. I was in Benfica many years ago. I was leaving the training ground and I had a car after me. It went on for 10 minutes. Anyhow, he stopped and I stopped and he said, I'm from the Italian embassy. Ah yes, and what do you want? I want your phone number because Roma wants you as a manager next season. Three months later I was sitting on the bench in Roma. I don't think the rest of working society works like football.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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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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• As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but nobody was moving. Margo rolled down the window, and I felt the thick air blow across my face, warmer than night ought to be. I glanced over and saw strands of her hair blowing all around her face. Even though I could see her there, I felt entirely alone among these big and empty buildings, like I'd survived the apocalypse and the world had been given to me, this whole and amazing and endless world, mine for the exploring.

  John Green

  Moving, Sleep, Blow

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.53, A&C Black

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• There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Mad, Trying

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• In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat. And the ball.

  Barry Lyga

  Baseball, Team, Men

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You’re disgusting when you eat,” Chuck said, sitting on the bench next to him. “It’s like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.

  James Dashner

  Pigs, Sitting, Benches

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.131, Scholastic UK

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