Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Gordon

I was on the bench loving the intensity in the game and the fans ..that?s what it?s about. All last year in the playoffs, that?s what we had in this building. Our guys did a great job of putting on a show for them.

Eddie House

I wasn't going to sit on the bench for a team that had zero chance of going to the playoffs.

Ozzie Guillen

My bench has to be better prepared right now than they were for the American League because they might see more action.

Microsoft is well known for its bench strength,? he said.

Tim Healy

Wick came off the bench and played very well inside.

We intend to be the benchmark of collegiate football polls.

Brian Sabean

Mark will definitely augment our offense when he is in the lineup and prove to be a threat off the bench with the game on the line.

Mark Horowitz and I built it onto an optical bench in the lab. We spent and eight-hour span putting this optical light path together.

Lindsey is very fundamentally sound and consistent, ... She is a heady player who works hard on her game. She and Kate Epstein are a nice combination in the middle of the field in the defensive end. Jamie came off the bench last year, and is a quick player who gives us good stickwork on the left side.

I will use all 13 bench guys - I have and will continue to do so.

I was very pleased with our bench play in the second quarter. I mean, we didn't skip a beat.

I was tired a little bit and my stomach started getting a little tight. I went to the bench and got some ice. I came back in and I felt great.

It feels amazing. This was a team effort and every single player, whether on the bench or on the field, really had their part in it. I'm just really happy.

Adam Burish

I still remember that, the feeling we got. We looked at each other on the bench and said 'Let's go.' We scored one, let's go again. And two shifts later we scored another one. We told coach, get us out there. Ride us. It was a pretty neat feeling.

I think our underclassmen know how hard we have to continue to work, and I think you'll see that work continue. Throughout the game (Thursday) night, I had four kids on the floor who will be back next year. I also had seven kids on the bench who will be back next year. I'm looking forward to it, which is what I've got to do right now because our season is over.

I think our team has a lot of good scorers, so I'm not going to try to come off the bench and score 20 points.

Jacque Vaughn

I think over the past 20 games or so the bench has done a good job of being sharp and focused. And this is an opportunity to continue that.

I think right now the stock market is very comfortable with the benchmark 30-year-bond trading at between 6.5 and 7 percent. But if we start moving that range up to 7.25 and above, that could really be a major speed bump in the way of the stock market.

I think our bench play was the difference.

Those guys came in off the bench and did a great job. In the last six and a half minutes of the third quarter, they held Johnson to six points and scored 18. That kind of depth and energy coming off the bench makes us a more difficult team to play against.

Dan Haren

With all the guys on the bench, we feel comfortable having them in the game. There's always someone on the bench who should be playing. That's a nice problem to have.

We rebounded well after a sluggish first half. Our bench gave us a good spark.

I thought he worked well. I think he came out of his last race as good as a horse could come out of a race like that, especially considering it was his first start off the bench and they ran fast over a fast racetrack. He hasn't missed an oat and has been very sharp since the race.

You can go get ideas from any institution, other museum, or public space. Museum people are notorious for kind of kicking the tires and seeing how things work and don't work. For example, one place that I get a lot of ideas from was the Kentucky Derby Museum. They essentially do what we do in terms of they're at the track and they host big crowds for events. They host a lot of media. Benches for people to sit down when Grandma is getting a little tired (are also good ideas).

We'll be solid with the starting five but the bench still comes in as a question.

I'd say that out of the three years that I've been head coach at Conroe, this is the best group of bench players we've had. We have a strong bench and that's the one positive thing that we have this year that we've been lacking in the past.

I doubt there were high-fives all around, but I imagine everyone who headed out to sit on the bench understood this was Justice O'Connor's last day. I think there was something more than a polite handshake.

He's got a chance now. But he's got a long way to go. He needs to go to work in the weight room. He doesn't bench that much, he doesn't squat that much, he doesn't clean that much. He's not ready physically yet to play in the Big Ten, but he's closer.

Cameron Crowe

How many times have I thought of me sitting on a bench with him and me wriggling away from whatever he wanted to talk to me about. Sometimes you say you're going to write a story about that and sometimes it just arrives, and those scenes arrive.

How realistic is it? That's what we're trying to find out. We've already gotten some information about 10 facilities that have been built over the last five or six years and how much it costs, just to give us a benchmark of what we're looking at financially. We're looking at the whole enchilada.

Alex Rodriguez

He's incredible. I was telling (Derek) Jeter on the bench what a great hitter he is, even on one leg.

James Harrington

I confess that the magistrate upon his bench is that to the law which a gunner upon his platform is to his cannon.

I can do 180 on the bench and clean 200. Definitely.