Words matter. These are the best Yards Quotes from famous people such as Esther Williams, Carson Palmer, Mark Leyner, Glenn Murray, Tom Herman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I remember when I first walked into Mayer’s cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.
The thing with diva receivers is, they’re productive. It’s not like they’re the third-string receiver who catches 40 balls for 612 yards a year.
I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell – they have that look.
I’m never going to be one of these players who dribbles past three and bends it into the top corner from 25 yards. That’s not me.
Yards don’t matter. The score is all that matters.
I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.
I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what’s it all for?
In practice, I think I’ve thrown it 82 yards, one time. In a game, I don’t think I’ve pushed it that far – probably 60, 65 yards in the air.
There are virtually no females who would be able to lug a fallen male solider weighing 200 pounds naked, before donning battle equipment, 200 yards out of the line of fire.
I’m heavier, but with muscle rather than flab. It’s a massive difference. It means I don’t get as tired sometimes and it means that I’m hitting the ball a lot farther, about 15 yards more with my driver.
If you go 90 yards in a hundred-yard race, you come last. Usain Bolt slows down for the last half a yard, but for 99 yards, he is that far ahead that he can. In our business, you can’t be far enough ahead. It is such a competitive marketplace.
Guys who aren’t going to be brought down on first contact, they’ll get you fired up. When you see guys spinning away and getting extra yards, it fires you up.
I didn’t mind playing against Ronaldo. He wasn’t as quick as me over the first few yards, I always felt that I could stick with him and I always felt I did okay against him. You always had to be switched on. He loved a step-over and was very skillful and he could sometimes make you look stupid.
Once I had my son, I stopped shopping in stores because it’s not an easy process to try on clothes – and I’m not an impulsive buyer. I need to do the dance in front of the mirror, the whole nine yards.
I guess it’s a good thing to do, but people go for 1,000 yards every year, so it’s not really a big thing.
‘The Whole Nine Yards’ I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.
Today, at 35, I can throw a small football close to 80 yards – and straighter than I can hit a golf ball.
I have a really intense night routine. I use Rodan + Fields – and I love their anti-aging line. I use the face mask, retinol, moisturizer… the whole nine yards. I also rely on a really gentle cleanser and keep an eye gel around at all times.
If we are running sprints, I want to beat everybody by 10 yards. If we are playing checkers, I want to win: I’m pretty good at checkers, and I’m trying to get on chess.
I can’t hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you’re going to hit a golf ball.
The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
Two teams trying to win a football game at the end of the season is going to be chippy. It’s going to be everything from pushing and shoving to fighting for extra yards.
Football is still fun, but it’s not so much fun when you’re losing, especially when you prepare as hard as you can, you go out and have four targets, two catches and 10 yards.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned after a lifetime of dining on delicacies like blood pudding, sea squirts, and camel kidneys, even folks who wouldn’t come within 100 yards of a Cambodian tarantula want to hear what it’s like to chomp on one!
I was a highlight coordinator. My job was to go in and watch games, watch and type. Basically every time the camera frame changed, I had to log it as something: ‘Emmitt Smith rushed for 4 yards… Close-up of Jimmy Johnson on the sidelines… 37-yard field goal.’
‘Atlanta’ is Wild West-y – every corner of the city is trying to get by under its own rules. There’s no single narrative. At the outer edges, the overgrown parking lots and project blocks, the city is a few yards away from apocalypse, and if you slow down, it could engulf you.
At some point, you’re not going to be able to run the ball for 180 yards, even with the best running back in the NFL. That’s when you have to be able to throw the ball.
I really have a distaste for poets who announce themselves at 50 yards; you know, here he comes, you know, with the beret and the cane and the cape and the whatever – whatever mishegas is part of the outfit there.
At one stage I was using crutches on stage and couldn’t walk more than 20 yards but a hip replacement in 2010 sorted that out.
I sometimes get someone to bowl at me from closer than the usual 22 yards so when I then go and play on a normal-sized pitch, everything feels easier.
Should we go back to huddling? Should we go back to putting all these tight ends in there and have 250 yards a game? It doesn’t win anymore. So should we do it because that’s what the people before us did? No.
I never feel like I’m in a rush. I’m controlling the pace. If I have the ball and hit the hole right now and get 3 yards, I feel like I can be patient, work for something, knowing I can still get the 3. It’s something that’s hard to be coached on. I just feel I’ve perfected it over time.
The route may, say, go across the field for 22 yards. I know I have to be there, but how I get there is where they allow me to be creative.
When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or muffled and is heard but a few yards. It is only upon dry, seasoned timber, freed of its bark, that he beats his reveille to spring and wooes his mate.
I had such a tie with my eyes and my hands. I could look at a telephone pole 40 yards away, take out a 7-iron, and hit it 10 times in a row. I had something special. And somehow, I really understood the game, all without having a lot of guidance.
Heaving up a blind pass to maybe pick up 10 yards, rather than throwing the ball away – I can’t do that.
The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It’s an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.
I can see what goes on defensively in a game, but 80 or 90 yards away, you can have no idea about the attack or how someone scored. I guess it’s once a goalkeeper, always a goalkeeper.
My prom dress was very sweet, very puffy, but I also wore little stiletto, pointed-toe heels, nylon hosiery, the whole nine yards.
Imagine if a mob of Black people wanted to go in the White House. Imagine what’d happen. It’d be tear gas. It’d be rubber bullets. It’d be the whole nine yards.
My thing is yards after catch. I can say it’s one the favorite things to do on the football field.
When I picture England, I picture little gardens and beautiful yards. I don’t really like cities; I like to go and see things like that.
I am going to miss Don Shula. I like him, and I admire him. I’m going to miss looking those 53 yards across the field and thinking, ‘There is a coaching legend.’
Whether it’s yards, touchdowns, catches, if you just do what you’re supposed to do, you’re eventually going to get the ball.
I wanted to own a junk yard as a child, you know. I used to smash cars and think, ‘Oh, my God, there’s been an accident.’ My mother would take me to junk yards, and I look back on that and I think, ‘Wow, that was really loving.’
When you’re poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.
I loved playing in the Big Ten, where it’s three yards and a cloud of dust.
The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.
But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.
Really, you don’t want to think about yards after the catch when the ball is in the air. You want to think about catching the ball. And then let the rest play its way out.
There certainly is a good ‘Tex Mex’ restaurant very close to our office. My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it’s changed hands and changed name, I’m not exactly sure why!
I want to lead the league in yards, touchdowns, basically about everything a receiver can do.
It is shocking how much a day-care center is like a prison. They both have security cameras with walled exercise yards. Prisons are permanent day cares for people permanently in time-out – convicts.
The fact is football players get beat all the time in the course of a game. But if it happens to a defensive tackle, it’s usually 5 or 10 yards. With us, it’s 76 yards.
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