Top 44 Sack Quotes

I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.

I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don’t really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don’t think we like that. I think we’d rather not be reminded of it.

The competitive pressure to produce, buy, and sell to our global multi-national companies is so intense that contractors in supply chains are motivated to pay low wages, intensify exploitative conditions, keep workers fearful with insecure work contracts, or simply sack workers who have formed a union to fight back.

I want to have an impact on the game. Instead of a sack, how about an interception for a touchdown? I could get 15 tackles. I’m just using those as examples, but any kind of impact would be fine, whether it’s a sack or anything else.

You’re a hero one day, you’re a villain another day. They say that’s football. When a manager does well, they’re applauded, when they don’t do well, they get the sack. Football is a tough world. Those who watch enjoy it – for everybody else, there are a lot of challenges.

I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved into a stuff sack. Never! Instead, I would run marathons and work out and be in perfect shape and reject the tyranny of the girdle forever.

When I got the sack from Huddersfield it hurt me badly. I became reclusive, I never went to a match, don’t think I left the house for five months.

If Mauricio Pochettino can get the sack, then we all can because he did a wonderful job at Tottenham.

When results aren’t good the manager gets the sack, that’s the game.

If the Big Show lands on you when you’re on the ground, you’re not getting back up. He’ll pick you up like a sack of crap and toss you over the top rope.

In the city that the wolf enters, enemies will be close by. An alien force will sack a great country. Allies will cross the mountains and the borders.

You know, I think sometimes certain players – and I don’t name names – but certain players have a certain haircut, they have certain sack celebrations. They draw a lot of attention to themselves.

I might do ‘X Factor’ next year. It’s looking good that I won’t get the sack at Christmas.

When you’re younger, you worry about the sack and getting abuse and things, but when you get to my age, you become less bothered about those things. It becomes more like a hobby and less like life or death.

If I want to wrestle, I should be able to wrestle. If I want to be sexy, I should be allowed to be sexy. If I want to come out wearing a potato sack, I should be allowed to do that too.

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

You ask somebody right now who are the top two or three sack persons and they couldn’t tell you. You’re a professional and you want to perform and you want to achieve those goals. But being out with the people and giving back to the community, it’s going to be more impactful and long lasting.

With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo’s! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.

Every job I still think ‘I wonder if this is the one they’re going to sack me for’.

Christmas Day itself hasn’t always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that – I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose.

A fact is like a sack – it won’t stand up if it’s empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

I went into a club who were sitting dead last in League Two, then I got them out of the relegation zone within 10 games, only to then get the sack… I don’t get it.

I think one thing as far as my learning curve and what I’m learning – there is a time to take a sack, and then there is also a time to try to find a way to maybe throw the ball at a receiver’s feet.

As players, whenever the manager gets the sack, you have to look in the mirror and say it’s not always the manager. It’s down to the players.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won’t care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don’t make much fuss.

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, ‘Gee, you are really special’ to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.

I’m not a potato sack; I’ve never sat on my couch. If I’m home, I’m cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

Iris Johansen’s lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught’s heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.

I was the funny-looking one who wore a trench coat and played hacky sack with the other greasy kids.

I was probably scarred by getting the sack at Middlesbrough.

A lot of people don’t really understand that a statistic is an indicator, but it doesn’t really give the full picture of the body of work. There’s been time when I’ve had one sack or no sacks and controlled a whole game, and I’ve seen other cats get three or four sacks and it had no effect on that game.

Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn’t want to get away from around her too far.

I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He’s so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He’s as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music.

I used to wear these big shapeless clothes and ended up just looking like a potato in a sack. I’ve learnt now to accentuate the bits that I’m happiest with. That’s probably my waist – a lot of my clothes go in at the waist and emphasise my hips, which I’m very proud of.

If the club decides to sack me, honestly, I don’t feel this pressure.

You don’t want to be that parent – the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks – especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.

You do understand when you get into management that you will get the sack at some stage, but that never puts people off trying again.

Stats can do anything you wish. When we got the sack at Aston Villa it came out there had only been Man City in that calendar year who had scored more goals than Villa.

I want the single-season sack record.

You want to get the sack, but you want to get the forced fumble and the fumble recovery. And if you get the touchdown, that’s the cherry on top. But you’re looking for those three always.

In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.

That is the difference from being a manager and being a player: As a player, if you sign a contract for four years, if you want to be there for four years, you are. But as a manager, it always depends on the sack. You are always under pressure.

We should work towards a legislation to sack non-performing politicians. This may not happen during my lifetime, but I will try for it anyway.