Top 50 Sidelines Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Sidelines Quotes from famous people such as Aditya Roy Kapur, Ross McCormack, Sami Zayn, Adelina Sotnikova, Tim Pawlenty, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

My mom was working through my childhood, so I would be

My mom was working through my childhood, so I would be running around Mumbai from one dance class to another with my mom carrying the tape recorder with me. I would sit on the sidelines and watch her teach dance.
Aditya Roy Kapur
The most frustrating thing at Villa was the perceived view fans had of me, that certain people at the club painted. That of a mercenary who was happy sitting on the sidelines taking his wages.
Ross McCormack
Sitting on the sidelines is so painful because it’s very difficult for me to watch wrestling and not be a participant in the ring, since that’s just where I belong.
Sami Zayn
The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that I wanted to have my Games. I understood that it wouldn’t be easy to make them, especially now that in Russia there are a lot of strong girls.
Adelina Sotnikova
We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we’ve got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama.
Tim Pawlenty
Public crowdfunding still suffers from a tragedy of the commons problem. Everyone will want the benefit of the crowdfunded efforts but is incentivized to sit on the sidelines and hope others chip in.
Fred Ehrsam
I was a highlight coordinator. My job was to go in and watch games, watch and type. Basically every time the camera frame changed, I had to log it as something: ‘Emmitt Smith rushed for 4 yards… Close-up of Jimmy Johnson on the sidelines… 37-yard field goal.’
Tom Herman
Our forces will not be on the sidelines.
John Abizaid
A lot of guys talk like they want to do it, and they think it would be cool to be in a nice suit on the sidelines, but I’m not afraid in dealing with the success and failures that goes with being a head coach.
Monty Williams
I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.
Paul Wellstone
Look at ‘Dulhe Raja.’ It was a film made very quietly on the sidelines, and suddenly, when the film was released, it struck gold. I never expected the film to do well.
Raveena Tandon
It is at programmes organised on the sidelines of temple festivals that you get to see raw audiences who will let you know immediately whether the act has clicked or not. It was those audiences who taught me how to strike a rapport with the audience.
Suraj Venjaramood
We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem – a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services.
Jenny McCarthy
How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Because I have moderated two general election debates – in 2004 and 2008 – I know better than to carp from the sidelines. I am confident in my accomplishment of having had Queen Latifah portray me on ‘Saturday Night Live’ both years.
Gwen Ifill
It’s so hard to predict the political environment. I think that business can’t sit on the sidelines and just watch. I think we need to be a force for the values that we believe in. We need to partner with government and regulators.
Dan Schulman
I look forward to continuing my work on the sidelines for Turner Sports.
Craig Sager
The ability to network successfully can be one of the greatest assets in business. It allows some people to find incredible opportunities, while others just watch from the sidelines.
Lewis Howes
But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn’t realize he would move in with quite such a bang.
Ian McDiarmid
When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It’s part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.
Madeleine M. Kunin
To spend 17 months on the sidelines is tough for anyone, and it’s hard to see everyone go out training and then to go and watch games at the Emirates Stadium.
Jack Wilshere
I curl up inside and freeze when I have to act. I much prefer sitting on the sidelines and trying to get the best out of other people.
Mel Ferrer
For the most part, I’ve sat on the sidelines over the years during the endless debates about how we need to do more to encourage more women to start companies.
Michael Arrington
Just like so many other people out there, I don’t want to sit on the sidelines, I want to do the most that I can to help.
Chamillionaire
I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.
Peter Dinklage
Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else’s life. God is saying, ‘Don’t sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.’
Victoria Osteen
We need to wake up to the fact that it is not immigrants who are causing economic dislocations. It is technology and an evolving economy that is pushing more and more Americans to the sidelines.
Andrew Yang
I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.
Jami Attenberg
God is never on the sidelines of His children’s lives. He goes before them. He leads them, guides them, protects and saves them.
Monica Johnson
As a government leader, I’m not going to sit on the sidelines and watch all these other sectors innovate. I’m going to do everything I can as a leader to be in that innovation, to be a provocateur for that innovation.
Cory Booker
The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it’s now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
Caitlin Moran
You will find it will almost always be more comfortable

You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.
Wendy Kopp
It doesn’t do any good to sit on the sidelines all the time.
Philip Anschutz
I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.
Kevin Durant
I always stand on the visiting team’s sidelines because there aren’t as many people.
Lee Corso
I was always too afraid to slow dance. But I do remember watching people slow dance. I was the guy on the sidelines. At the school dance, I was usually in the band, playing.
Babyface
To me, it’s about being smart, knowing when to go down and if you’re on the sidelines knowing when to go out of bounds, and I think I do a pretty good job of doing that.
Tavon Austin
I hope that people will see that we don’t have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
Gary Johnson
I remember hating New Kids on the Block from the sidelines because all of the girls loved them. They would just fawn over them. ‘Oh my gosh, Joey I love you!’ When I was younger, I really couldn’t stand them.
Dule Hill
Communities and workers should be partners at the table, not waiting on the sidelines while government and the fossil fuel industry dictate climate policy.
Jagmeet Singh
To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn’t recruiting anybody because I didn’t have any books for people to work on.
Todd McFarlane
After 9/11, I didn’t look to go sit on the Swiss desk – I stepped up. I was not on the sidelines.
Gina Haspel
Obviously I’ve had some injuries and it’s kept me out of the team for quite a long time and it’s always difficult to have long spells on the sidelines and then try to get back into the team.
Ryan Mason
It doesn’t matter how I’m asked to play, or if the football is good or bad: I like football when I’m on the pitch, not when I’m on the sidelines.
Park Ji-sung
To discover your mission and put it into action – instead of worrying on the sidelines – is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.
Scilla Elworthy
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century – freedom against Communism – so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
John Bolton
But maybe someday I’ll be reporting on the sidelines instead of dancing on the sidelines.
Camille Kostek
Soccer fans spend almost as much time outdoors as we do! Whether you’re heading out onto the field for practice or cheering from the sidelines, throw a broad spectrum sunscreen into your bag to help protect your skin from the sun.
Kelley O’Hara
While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people.
Dave Reichert
You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm