Top 185 Bench Quotes

I don’t train to be on the bench.

If I am the best, I am capable of saying it, but if I find the others better, I am also capable of shutting up. And staying on the bench. Full stop.

Deciding to leave Milan’s bench is not easy. But it’s a decision I had to make.

And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.

Ever since third grade – I never even noticed it until after the game – people were telling me how crazy my dad is. I think I’m so locked in when I’m playing on the floor, I only hear him maybe during timeouts or when we’re up 20 or 30 and I’m on the bench. But when I’m in the game, I don’t hear him.

Being a soccer coach is just like being a general who has the responsibility of guiding his troops into battle. If a coach acts too emotionally on the bench, his players cannot focus on their game on the field.

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.

Every game, I have to make the best decision. I repeat: my players must be happy to stay in Chelsea and to play for Chelsea and to play for our fans. They must be happy if they start the game or if they stay on the bench and come on.

When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.

I got offered a short-term contract at Oldham, to sit on the bench. I was living on my mate’s sofa while I was there. But that’s what you’ve got to do to get by.

When I was growing up, my dad didn’t have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench.

It feels good when your teammates are telling you on the bench that they’re hyped.

I don’t care about starting or coming off the bench or anything like that. To me, whatever role I’m in I’m going to try to help us win.

Whether you play or whether you’re on the bench, or however it may be, at some point in your career you will be one of those three roles. You will either be a young, up-and-coming goalkeeper watching the experienced one, you’ll either be on the bench or you’ll be in goal yourself.

I have got pictures of me sleeping on the bench when I was four years old while my dad was practicing. I used to go to practice with him all of the time and they would play until it was late. I sometimes got tired and I would be sleeping there, but it was inside so not too bad.

It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.

When I’m retired, I want to be able to tell my kids I played in a European Cup final. I don’t want to have to say I watched one from the substitutes’ bench, then kept getting knocked out in the quarters and semis.

Due to broken windows policing, the following interactions can lead to tickets, arrests and summonses, warrants if tickets go unpaid and, in some cases, violence: jaywalking, sleeping on a park bench, spitting, putting your feet up on the subway, and more.

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

There are some in black robes sitting on federal benches all across this country. They’re Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and even conservatives that pervert the Constitution.

I can’t get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city.

When I come off the bench, I’m more of a scorer, instead of trying to facilitate for everybody.

If it’s coming off the bench or if it’s starting, I will try to contribute what is best for the team. If we’re winning, I’m not going to complain.

There’s no doubt that having some guys on the bench that have been through things, and that are older and experienced, understand not just the highs but the lows of losing a game. Winning and keeping a steadiness throughout a game, their voice in timeouts, it’s really valuable.

None of us want to live in a society where people are forced to sleep in shop doorways, on park benches or in dangerous, run-down buildings.

Nobody dreams of being on the bench or sitting in the corner.

What you’re getting on Twitter is me sitting on a bench, just with a lot less cuss words. Honestly.

Sitting on the bench, scoring a goal, and then being back on the bench is quite difficult to deal with for an attacker.

For me, being a starter doesn’t matter. Of course, I’d like to be in at the end of the game, to be a big part of the team, and to play as many minutes as I can play. But starting and coming off the bench are two different challenges.

My job is to be the bench coach with the Rays and help this team succeed. If another opportunity arises, I’d welcome the opportunity.

Every player wants to play. That’s pretty normal. Every player is unhappy when he’s on the bench. That’s pretty normal, too. But it’s football: only 11 players can start, and the coach has his game plan for each game.

The last two times I went to spring training, I had to win a job, and if I didn’t get off to a blazing start, I’m on the bench. Now, I’ve proven myself, so it’s not essential that I get off to a real good start.

I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

My dad would never, ever play me over somebody because I’m his son. If I’m not playing well, I’m sitting on the bench.

Most of the hotel gym’s are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren’t going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don’t have dumbbells and benches.

I didn’t leave school early to sit on the bench.

This is why I had to go to Swansea. I didn’t want to stay on the bench for another year.

You can’t afford to rest on your laurels at all, or you’ll instantly be on the bench.

I want to play more minutes. I’m a player who doesn’t want to stay on the bench or not in the squad.

I have a gym at home where I do weight training as well as cardio. I love doing bench press but cannot share information on how much weight I lift. I also practise Yoga. My guru Sadhguru taught me different kriyas like Surya Namaskar, which I do for my personal well being.

There are only a handful of guys in the NBA who are going to be superstars and I think I found a bit of a niche with the Jazz to come off the bench and do what I do.

I’ve played almost 22 years in the major leagues, and I’ve never sat on the bench.

One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint – that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions of the political process. When Congress and the president enact a law, conservatives generally say, judges should avoid ‘legislating from the bench.’

When you’re preparing for a game, you prepare like you’re starting. But if you’re not, if you’re coming off the bench, everybody has a role.

I don’t really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just kind of write in a park, on a bench, in the library, in a cafe, back to the library, that kind of thing.

There are guys on different teams across the league who are bench guys, and guys who that – that’s their role, to be on the bench encouraging guys to play hard and get good minutes.

It’s easy to motivate a client when they are sitting on a bench right in front of you, but the real challenge for a trainer is to have that motivation exist even when you are not around.

When I was on the bench, I used to have a yellow pad, and I put on the pad at the beginning of the day, ‘patience’ and ‘restraint.’

Mentally, starting the game versus coming off the bench, there are different vibes.

It’s very difficult to fill the shoes of somebody like Rahul Bhai. He has set the bench mark for a generation to come. However, it’s our responsibility to carry forward his legacy.

Although I’ve made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house.

If for half a year you only get 10 minutes to play from the bench, then you have no rhythm.

I’m being completely honest. If you sit on the bench and the others win, then you will not really feel like part of the winning team.

Sometimes it is tough and frustrating to sit on the bench.

It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.

When you’re down 35, it’s kinda hard to really show excitement on the bench.

I have always maintained you should be able to bench press and deadlift at least twice your body weight.

It doesn’t matter if I am going to come off the bench or if I am going to be a starter.