I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister’s lessons.
At one of the games I broadcast at Florida State a few years back, the mercury soared to 105 degrees, and you try attempting to look composed and professional, providing insight from the benches, while sweat pours into your eyes.
To be on the bench is not the nicest thing.
I try to play with the same confidence whether I’m starting or coming off the bench.
I remember borrowing my mum’s Instamatic 110 camera as a kid and doing still lifes of tennis balls and benches and thinking they were going to be something really amazing. They ended up being really bad.
I would play like one minute or not even get in at all. I’d see on Twitter – people would say, ‘I hate that Grayson Allen guy at the end of the bench.’ I’m like, ‘What did I do?! I was in the game for 30 seconds.’
I’ve carried my chip with me my entire career. I’ve had to fight and claw for every position I’ve had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.
The thing you can’t measure is someone’s heart, someone’s desire. You can measure a 40, his vertical, his bench press, and that might let you know things like, yeah, he can jump high. But desire, his dedication, his determination, that’s something you can’t measure. That’s something you can’t measure about Rod Smith.
I want to make sure that I am always ready: that if I step off the bench, I will make a contribution, then be given my chance.
This arena is a special place. Everybody loves it. To be able to stand behind the bench and be a part of a great tournament for the ’96 Elite is fun. The kids, having a chance to play in the building where the Penguins play, it’s a special feeling for them.
If a player is 20 or 21 and sits on the bench for two or three years, I don’t know if that’s useful.
If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they’d be out there in first place.
Manu played in All-Star games, started on the bench, ran the second unit and closed games.
It’s kind of hard to sit on the bench and watch your team go down when you think you can go out there and make a difference.
When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We’d skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.
I could have sat on the bench for a third year but I moved to West Brom from Liverpool to play. I love Liverpool and I’ve played a lot of games in my career so if I wanted to have a comfy life, I could have stayed at Liverpool.
I can’t afford to do the highlight dunk and miss it because, if I do that, I’ll be sitting right on the bench beside the coaches.
Coming off the bench was an adjustment for me.
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the ‘smoking gun’ tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up.
I sit on the bench, and I watch even my teammates swing, so you can learn from them when they make a bad swing or good swing. I like to watch from the rookie to the veteran player, and that way you can see the difference and learn something from them.
I am not someone who enjoys being on the bench.
I’m desperate to enjoy my football again and play until I retire. Obviously I’m 34 so I don’t want to be sitting on the bench, I don’t want to be remembering my last few years of my career like that.
I’m not worried about who’s starting and who’s coming off the bench.
When you’re young on the bench you can’t show yourself really.
I went from Chelsea to Fulham – two Premier League teams at the time – and was sitting on the bench for the Europa League and Premier League and you don’t think it is going to finish.
I do not want to be sitting on the bench.
I feel as long as I’m playing productive minutes, I’ll play. But if I’m sitting on the bench and not doing anything, then I’ll retire.
I know my first years sitting on the bench, largely behind Rickey Green, was a great learning tool for me.
Some players need it and some don’t. Some have a little too much confidence. But bench players, guys in secondary roles, just need a shot of confidence all the time.
I don’t bench press, but I use machines to work 10-12 muscle groups. Biceps, triceps, a few things for the back, calves, shoulders and so on – and then I’ll go on the running machine, cross-trainer or mountain climber.
I make no secret of the fact that writing She-Hulk can serve as an opportunity for me to sneak in some really cool characters that I personally love. Some will be obvious fits, but others will come out of left field – but that’s what’s fun about the Marvel U – the bench is deep.
Mathura railway station should be a blend of heritage look with modernisation like escalator and better waiting rooms for general class passengers. Instead of taking rest on the ground, the passengers in general waiting rooms should be provided benches.
Jazz is all about improvisation and it’s about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you’ll never do it this way twice. I’ve studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.
In Portugal the coach would sit on the bench and not say a word. We’d just play. It was a matter of us making mistakes and learning from them by ourselves. You understand the game a lot better that way.
To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can’t be too close to any of them.
Sometimes to rest, even to watch your team-mates from the bench, is not too bad. It is part of the game and you try to be fresh when you come on the pitch.
I don’t ever remember wanting to do anything but coach. My dad obviously influenced me. But it wasn’t because he sat there and drilled coaching stuff into our heads. We were on the bench keeping the scorebook and traveling with the team on weekends. It was such a great upbringing.
Being grumpy at not playing is part of the job. If I see someone who is constantly on the bench smiling and laughing, then that’s no good either.
If you want to see how good your team is, look at your bench.
To be honest, I don’t really care if I’m starting or coming off the bench.
A lot of people, when they see my career, they hear or remember, ‘Sat on the bench four years in college, got cut by the Packers, worked in a grocery store, and then won the Super Bowl.’ That’s kind of the timeline the people see when they hear ‘Kurt Warner.’
I feel cool and comfortable in Bench. It’s very casual, easy on the body.
The Conservative Party mustn’t sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.
I wouldn’t go to a club just to stay on the subs’ bench.
I think when you come off the bench, you know you’re going to play, but you don’t know really when, what time in the game, what quarter, so it’s kind of different.
I don’t want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.
I have been known for my courtesy on and off the bench.
It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime – to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn’t sure I would be able to play with them.
And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think – what’s going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?
I’m not used to being on the bench.
I’m known for wearing tweed jackets, khaki pants and suede shoes. I’ve only worn a suit in parliament under duress, when I was on the front bench.
I was a goalkeeper, but through my career, I spent almost as much time sitting on the bench as I did playing.
I would be trying to play hockey with my friends, but most of the time, the coach put me on the bench. Because I was too dreamy – I was dreaming all of the time. I was super bad on the ice because I was just thinking about something else.
A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don’t isolate the family. We don’t make rides that say, ‘Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.’
I went for a warm-up and got called back and the fans started singing my name when I was sat on the bench. I thought: ‘Oh my god. There are 25,000 people in the ground and there are around 1,000 Swindon fans singing a 20-year-old’s name that has just been working on a building site.’
The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.
Only Vlade Divac go first year he play. The rest of the guys from Europe sit on the bench.
