Top 30 Sideline Quotes

I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can’t necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you’re conscious of… that gives you a certain power over it.

I just know when I’m on the sideline, I can’t expect somebody to push me out of bounds.

I don’t if I can handle not being on the sideline and being part of a team trying to win a football game on Friday nights.

If I’m not on the court, I have to be there to cheer my teammates on and from the sideline be there mentally and keep guys locked in and focused.

I’ve always been a guy to keep positive energy on the sideline.

Basketball’s eras are defined by teams – Celtics, Lakers, Bulls – and baseball’s epochs are defined by players – Ruth, Robinson, Mantle – but with football, it’s the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.

I was always the sideline reporter or something similar to that – which is essentially, but this isn’t always true, the ‘woman’s job.’

Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it’s like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.

You have to be able to recognize defenses on your own in pro football. You can’t look to the sideline and read some board. You’ve got to recognize the defense on your own, and then you’ve got to communicate to your offensive teammates what you want them to do.

Fashion was more of a sideline for me. I did it for the money.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

You don’t normally get to hear that, you don’t normally get to hear your coaches yelling at you from the sideline when you got fans there.

All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.

It’s easy to sit in the press box and say, ‘Hey, they should run the ball.’ Come down and stand on the sideline with me and make decisions. You should run it here, you should pass it here, let’s throw a screen here, let’s get the quarterback out of the pocket right here.

There is nothing harder for me than to sit at the sideline, not being able to be productive.

You can’t sideline players who can take a good helping for themselves in the Power Plays.

It might be okay for somebody else on the roster to sit on the sideline but it’s not okay for me to be. I’m the franchise player, I’m the guy on both the microphone and in the ring.

I don’t want to collect any paychecks as a cheerleader on the sideline.

Extra thick skin is something every Bruce Arians’ quarterback needs to have because the stuff he says to media is rated G compared to the stuff he says to your face on the sideline and after the game in the locker room and throughout the week.

I’m fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as long as I want with books.

I remember as a really young child, watching his energy on the sideline and watching him get excited, his body movement, the way he reacted. It’s fun to hear other people tell stories about my dad and the things he did in games and the way he’d get upset with officials.

Thanks to fantasy football and ‘Madden’ on Xbox Live there are legions of jersey adorning sports fanatics who think they’re equipped to stand on the sideline with a headset.

As a quarterback, especially when I come off to the sideline, I am trying to get things corrected, trying to get things figured out and move on to the next series.

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn’t stand the sideline.

When I’m out there, you just have to react. That’s why you work on those throws. When you’re in the moment, you can’t think to yourself, ‘How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?’

If you love this game, you always want to be out there, not in the sideline dressed in the street clothes. Especially when you know you can help the team.

I want the University of Florida to be successful. I’m always going to be a Gator, unless I’m on the other sideline.

I can just remember games as a young player, counting my stats on the sideline. ‘What am I now? I’m this many completions for this many attempts. I wonder what my rating is.’