Top 33 Sliding Quotes

I think that what we do out on the field is oftentimes a little bit better than what men do. I don’t think that we flop around as much. I think we’re tough. I mean, I’ve got battle wounds on my legs from the turf and sliding. And we’re gritty. And we’re feisty. And I think that I would never back down from a guy.

Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don’t lose your momentum, and there’s one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.

I have combination skin so if I wear too thick foundation, I can feel it sliding off in areas, and then I’m conscious of it all day.

The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It’s their problem. If I see a door comin’ my way, I’m knockin’ it down. And if I can’t knock down the door, I’m sliding through the window. I’ll never let it stop me from what I wanna do.

Remember that film ‘Sliding Doors,’ when John Hannah woos Gwyneth Paltrow by reciting Monty Python sketches? I can tell you now that doesn’t work, so that film’s wrong.

On the clay, I am used to sliding so much and I move really well, but I can’t slide on the hard courts.

Well, I’m obsessed with shoes – small shoes, weirdly shaped shoes, hotdogs in shoes, things sliding in and out of shoes.

I could not have taken what he took, sliding into second base and having a guy stand over you and spit on you, call you every name in the book. Believe me, for him not to respond, to ignore it and not retaliate, you can’t say enough good about Jackie.

The smell of fuel, driving on the limit on the edge of sliding, it just gives you a lot of adrenaline.

Once while sliding under a table, I hurt my knee badly.

To be useful in defence, to win back the ball, you don’t always have to go sliding into the tackle. It’s also about your positioning; sometimes all you have to do is take a step back.

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

Like any offensive lineman worth his shoulder pads, I’m a mudder. Football’s just not football without a healthy dose of slipping, sliding, snow, or rain.

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one’s palms keep sliding off.

The first time I carried drinks was during the 2004 Champions Trophy. It was a wet outfield and I was running with the drinks and I couldn’t stop myself and just went sliding into Sourav Ganguly, who was giving a team chat in the huddle.

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes.

I wouldn’t say you worry about your health when you run. I would say a quarterback as an obligation to protect yourself as a runner, whether it’s getting out of bounds, sliding or getting down, whatever it might be.

Cycling taught me to recognize that mental health is on a sliding scale. Some days you are up and some days you are down.

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

I don’t think that sliding down a wall with a bottle of Sancerre in your hand at 6:30 in the morning is particularly attractive when you’re approaching 40 and you’ve got a kid.

My path to motherhood was challenging, to say the least, and I always feel like I’m living a ‘Sliding Doors’ version of my life.

Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward – sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.

I remember the terrible winter in 1963, clearing the snow off the forecourt at Upton Park with the rest of the players so we could train. Job done, we’d play on it for two hours in silly little plimsolls, sliding everywhere.

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.

My mother very rarely skipped a Thanksgiving turkey. And yet, none of them ever tasted quite the same, landing somewhere on a sliding scale of succulence. She’d try new methods.

All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already sliding towards the dark possibilities in human nature.

There’s times when I’ll be out in the middle of the track, standing in the curve, and I’ll just laugh. ‘What the heck am I doing right now? I’m sliding down the hill at crazy speeds and standing in freezing cold weather.’

I don’t look at comedy as a sliding scale of offensiveness.

I’m worried about the future of computer operating systems, as they all seem to be sliding towards a more controlled experience, taking away much of what makes PC games so much fun.

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

A man’s foot is wider, so when I would wear men’s cleats, my foot would be sliding inside of it, so it’s nice to be secure because then your body’s not compensating, and you’re not getting injuries.