I don’t like feeling too tight. Like if you bench too much, you feel like you can’t move your arms right.
I have always been there to help the team, sometimes coming off the bench, other times as a starter.
It killed me being on the bench and watching my teammates play. I wanted to be out there helping them win. But that gave me more motivation.
I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It’s just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.
If we are going to achieve something, we are going to need a strong bench.
I work hard in training and the ultimate goal is to get in the starting XI. All I can do coming off the bench is affect the game and score the goals so hopefully that puts a question mark in the manager’s mind.
If you take going to the bench as a demotion or something that’s terrible, you start with a bad attitude.
Obama and Biden want a bench crammed full of liberal judicial activists, and it’s up to the American people to tell them ‘no.’
It’s one of the worst things in our profession, being on the bench. The only worse thing is being injured.
David Luiz has to work with the others if he deserves to play; otherwise, he will stay on the bench or in the stands.
My wife doesn’t let anyone wear shoes in our house, so we have a bench, and under the bench is all UGGs slippers.
As a player on the bench, you become like a fan really. You’re sitting there shouting ‘why did he do that?’ or ‘no don’t pass it there’ and I can see why fans get so frustrated. But then I remember what it is like being out there on the pitch and how players can’t see everything that fans can see.
There were times when I’d bench players for their lack of effort. We worked very hard on fundamentals, which was the Dodger way. We needed to be more aggressive.
It’s no fun being on the bench.
My favourite pastime used to be sitting on a park bench watching people. But after ‘Jagged Little Pill,’ the eyeballs turned, and I was the watched one.
I’ve done everything I could as a bench coach. I’m ready to manage.
I was better than certain players at Manchester City but I was left on the bench. Before I left the club, I told the people in charge that they would regret letting me go.
It is definitely what my aim is to get everyone to do their part and take on that responsibility of being a leader – whether you are playing or on the bench or if you have not made the team.
I’ve always liked shows that have a strong cast of secondary characters. One of the greatest examples ever I would say is ‘The Simpsons.’ If you think about it, you could name 100 characters recognizable from that show. I think ‘Scrubs’ has done a good job of having a strong team coming off the bench.
We know that this man has a proven record of being a ‘strict constructionist.’ Our President has given us his word that he will interpret the Constitution rather than make new laws from the bench.
In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.
I really don’t care about coming from the bench if that helps the team to win a championship.
If I’ve got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.
Big E, he’s a strong dude. Ryback’s a strong dude. But if you put Batista next to those guys, he was 6’6”, 320 lbs. Those guys are pushing 6’1”-6’2”. But Batista was wide. He was a big old dude. Those guys could beat him in a bench press contest, but I’d rather look like Dave.
The bench is really important in the NBA because if you have a good bench, then you can make that playoff push even harder.
I told players that when we score a goal, the bench lives through the same emotions and we celebrate with them, with the same desire.
I don’t want to be known as a super sub. But you have got to be ready to come off the bench and make an impact if you’re not in the starting team.
When I was on the bench, I worked harder.
When I started lifting weights, I remember I could barely bench the bar. I mean, I’m shaking all over the place, the bar’s falling, and I’m like, ‘I can’t lift 45 pounds,’ but it just goes to show how much work I put in.
I do a lot of squats, I do a lot of bench pressing. But legs are very important for me. It’s more important than arms and shoulders.
I may not have played men’s football, but I’ve been at World Cups as a player. I know the emotions. I’ve been in quarter finals, a semi-final. I’d been substituted and sat on the bench watching us lose a penalty shoot-out. I know what happens, what you need when the pressure’s on.
I don’t like feeling too tight. Like if you bench too much, you feel like you can’t move your arms right.
Throughout my decade on the bench, I have watched my colleagues strive day in and day out to do just as Socrates said we should – to hear courteously, answer wisely, consider soberly, and decide impartially.
I would prefer to play left-wing, striker or even goalkeeper – any other position – rather than sitting on the bench as a central midfielder.
It would be worse if I have players who are happy if they sit on the bench, because that doesn’t mean that we develop our game.
If you think that I got to come off the bench, then I am going to put you in a position to try to prove you wrong. Then after a while, it was kind of fun, and over the years it was my makeup.
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.
In 1959 I had broken the bench press record by lifting 565 pounds, and I could lift 715 pounds from a squat.
If I’m on the bench, it’s the bench. If I’m playing five or 30 minutes, I’m good.
And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.
I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I’d try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.
I think when you’re starting you have more of a luxury. You know you’re going to play 33, 35, 37 minutes per game, so you can kind of feel the game out. When you come off the bench you have to be more in attack mode. You have to make something happen immediately.
At Milan, I’m giving everything I’ve got during training to earn myself a chance. I honestly don’t know why I can’t find space in the team, even on the bench.
Bench scoring overall I think is overrated. The question is, do you have enough scoring?
There’s a massive difference between playing Under-21 football and being on the bench at Chelsea, and playing every week in a league where you are playing for people’s livelihoods and helping to pay their mortgages.
Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they’re generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
I don’t mean to diminish the job, it’s a good job and a real pressure job. But I don’t think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We’re bench players, and bench players shouldn’t be M.V.P.
I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.
I could’ve signed with a team after Portland cut me and just sat on the bench and collected paychecks, but that’s not my style. That just seems really unethical. Besides, money doesn’t matter to me. I’ve got enough money.
On the back benches, you can have your say but no power to do anything.
All my teammates, whether they’ve been playing with me or sitting on the bench and not dressing, they’ve supported me. I don’t think I’d be too good a person if I didn’t do at least the bare minimum of the same.
You get people criticising people who are happy to sit on the bench, picking up money.
Actually I think it’s better for me to come off the bench, because for them first couple of minutes when that first five is in there, you can see the little things and what you need to do when you get in there.
When you’re watching from the bench, you can pick up on everything – where guys like to shoot the ball from, how teams defend the pick-and-roll, which big men are good at hedging the screen and so on.
I believe that it is not worth it to train from Monday to Friday just to have 20 minutes on the pitch or sit on the bench on Saturday.
Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him.
Let’s say I have a new respect for guys who come off the bench every day. That’s not easy to do.
Most of my career, I’ve always kind of been off the bench, so, for me, it’s not about if I start or not.
I’m mentally drained even when I’m just sitting on the bench and not playing.
My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
I had a good time at Liverpool. They were great lads. The manager had his reasons to keep me on the bench, and at the same time, they were on a good run.
