Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Taylor

Probably the biggest challenge with this group is a lot of them at this time last year had just started dressing to sit on the bench at a varsity game. These guys are playing now and they've got to grow into these tight games. I think they took a step toward doing that tonight.

The team took it pretty hard when she went down, but we can't dwell on it. We just have to pull together and hope that people will come off the bench and step up.

The thing that's special about him, ... is that he is always ready to play. He's a bright guy who knows the game. When we're on the bench together, we'll talk, and he'll give me a perspective I hadn't thought about.

The thing that I like is that young guy set the tone for this team. He went in there and got hammered, and what did he do next time? He went back to that hole. When your leader is doing something like that, everybody else better step up on that bench and play just as hard, and just as physical.

They're deep. Their bench is just as good as their starters.

They're not a fluke. They are a 7-1 team for a reason. We have a lot of ladies that were on the bench during the championship years and now they know what it's like to be on the floor and now it's their turn to take over.

There seems to be a new benchmark in terms of what we call a blockbuster, ... This year, by the end of the year, we'll wind up with about 17 films over $100 million. But the key to this year's success is that we have five films that have gone beyond $200 million. That's never happened before.

Miles Austin

There's different things (training) on different days. Mondays and Wednesdays we run at another facility. The other days we work out at the Hawthorne place. Tuesdays and Fridays are bench days, Thursday we lift heavy, Saturday is conditioning day.

Mal Peet

The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.

These are tests. Situations like this give you a benchmark with how society is doing with respect to racial harmony. If society hasn't passed this test, then we have the right to say we still have a problem with racism.

These are still no answers. I walked out of that room in utter shock. I was told they had a meeting, and it was unanimous that Shane had more weapons off the bench than me.

I told John to be a sparkplug, come off the bench and give us a boost.

It really makes no difference to me whether I start or come off the bench. Jason is comfortable starting and he's playing well at the position. Sometimes it helps to sit there and get a feel for the game from the bench and then go in and try to make a difference.

You take a team's will away by playing great defense and defense is what is going to win games for us. And we got great minutes from our bench and had a complete team effort.

You need to take care of the people in front of the bench and those that have been harmed.

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.

I made a conscious effort to put on 10 pounds this offseason and I didn't lose any speed. I still run a sub-4.4 40 and bench press more than 400 pounds. I just wanted to be more durable.

I knew I was in the wrong. I should have come to the bench and not said anything. I learned my lesson.

Dwyane Wade

I know Alonzo was saying that on the bench over and over and over.

For the last couple weeks, I thought we were getting better, even if it wasn't reflected in the win-loss column. We put a total game together tonight, both offensively and defensively. We needed our bench to play, because Ole Miss plays a lot of guys. We had a special effort.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History as the slaughter-bench

Nancy Astor

Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

All of these players came off the bench and did a really good job. We got off to a slow start, but played well as a team after this.

Tom Renney

The entire bench understands that these people really care and enjoy a good effort.

Al Leiter

The guys on his team are going to know that the manager at the end of the bench has done a lot of homework on the opposing team and should translate into many wins,

The guys off the bench really gave us the effort we have been looking for.

The guy, obviously, has stayed focused, no matter what was going on. For him to come off the bench and let that thing go right at the buzzer shows me that he's intent on helping our team win, he's focused on his job and he's hungry to get us where we need to go.

The greatest thing of all is that he's got super kids on the bench that they can bring in and they can do the exact same thing.

These kids don't understand, when you're skating on the outside in cold weather, you can skate forever. But the problem is you've got to come back to the bench and the kids are freezing because they've been sitting there for two or three minutes.

Brad Smith

These guys came off the bench their sophomore year when we went to state. They won 19 games as juniors. They know how to win games, and they can't wait to prove they can get back to state.

Luis Sojo

These guys are proven hitters in the major leagues. There really wasn't much to do. They're our best hitters and I wasn't going to sit them on the bench or put them at the bottom of the order.

This is a good benchmark for our guys. This is only the seventh time we have met and we aren't going to throw the whole thing at them. We are looking for guys to make some strides now.

Mark Gottfried

Alonzo gave us great energy, a great lift off the bench and hit some big shots. Sometimes on senior nights, it's somebody else who emerges, and tonight it was Alonzo.