Top 77 Backup Quotes

To be honest, football is my main goal. I never really had a backup plan.

Different players play you different ways. Some players might be slow-footed so they got to backup. Some players might push you up. You’ve got to have a go-to that’s a mix for both of them.

For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment – ‘backup dancer’ isn’t even in my vocabulary.

I like to write from scratch most of the time, but I like to have a backup plan just in case.

It’s a misconception that singers in Punjab use music as a backup in case their acting fails. For me, singing is the front, it’s not the backup, it was acting that happened by chance.

If you draft a player to be a backup, why did you draft him? You’re drafting a guy because you think he’s worthy of being drafted at that spot, but you’re also drafting him because you think he can compete. If you’re going to say, ‘This guy’s a backup,’ – really? That doesn’t make any sense to me.

I never had a backup plan. I felt like if I had a backup plan, it was like saying to the universe that I didn’t believe in myself.

It is unfortunate that in every industry, there are people who take advantage of needy people, but I would like to tell all the budding actors not to be vulnerable and always have a backup plan because rejection in auditions and films is not the end of the world.

My belief is whether I’m the starter, whether I’m the backup, I’m going to show up the same exact way. I’m going to prepare the same exact way, and I’ll always be ready to go.

I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M’Elu, for a backup story in ‘Green Lantern #162,’ my first professional sale.

Pursue your dreams but have a backup plan.

I think when you have the point guard guarding someone full court and just chasing the guy all around, always in the right spot, it just makes you want to get down in a stance and be his backup and have his help whenever he needs it. Or having the same energy that he has.

Not everyone gets to have one of the few super-dominant, all-pro, superstars in this league, and so playing with the pass and playing with space and playing quick is a really good backup.

I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer was making me selfish – I was a mother with two children, and I needed a backup plan.

I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn’t interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, ‘You should have a backup career,’ so I thought, ‘OK, I’ll act.’ That was the foolishness of my vision for my life – that my backup career would be completely undependable.

I didn’t go to college. I don’t have a whole lot of options as far as backup plans.

Living with a single kidney is almost exactly like living with two; the remaining kidney expands to take up the slack. (When kidneys fail, they generally fail together; barring trauma or cancer, there’s not much advantage to a backup.) The main risk to the donor is the risk of any surgery.

You have to move on with your life at some point. You don’t quit fighting, fighting quits you at some point. It’s very unfortunate, but that’s the nature of the beast. And that’s one of those things, too, that I like to tell young fighters. Have a backup plan.

I don’t want to sacrifice and be a backup to be a Charger. That’s not something I want to do or I’m going to do.

If Kaepernick is trying to become a backup quarterback, and we’re seeing guys like Mark Sanchez and Geno Smith being picked ahead him, then you can argue that he is being blackballed.

If I wasn’t doing candy, I’d want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Otherwise, the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson were so much a part of my childhood, and Janet and I have become friends. So my second dream job would be backup singer for Janet Jackson!

I had no backup plan. I wanted to have a music career since I was 5 years old. I know that might be hard to believe, but it’s true.

For me, it’s more about the musicianship – focusing on the guitar, playing with my band, rather than just going out and doing what anyone my age can do with backup dancers and a track.

I’ve learned to play you know the backup point guard spot and to play on the wing if need be, and it’s something I embrace.

I used to read voraciously while in school and cinema was always a fascination. Law was the safe backup plan.

I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

The odds are stacked against you becoming a footballer, so my family made sure I always had a backup plan.

I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn’t make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn’t play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.

I just can identify with that mentality of feeling that you should be the best, putting in the work, and then kind of being that backup or being that second guy and being like, nah, this isn’t good enough for me, I’m going to be the best.

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can’t sing.

When I was a backup singer, I enjoyed it.

I’d really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I’d rather be a backup – like maybe the drummer for Muse… It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days.

In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It’s really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.

I will say, I can definitely throw down a sick beat once in a while and provide an amazing backup track for somebody who can really, actually freestyle.

I had never dreamed about the NBA like some guys did. I was a non-scholarship player at an NAIA college. I played on the Boys and Girls Club team in my freshman and sophomore years of high school before I made the high school team. I was our backup center in college.

I felt the way people talked to me was like, ‘It’s OK to be No. 2 in the NFL, a backup,’ and things like that. That’s never been my approach.

And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in ’92, and I was the backup on that flight.

Since I was a D-team backup quarterback in seventh grade, I’ve loved the game.

By the time Guns n’ Roses spent 28 months from 1991 to 1993 touring the ‘Use Your Illusion’ albums, the tour staff sometimes approached 100 people. We were carrying not only backup girl singers, a horn section, and an extra keyboard player, but also chiropractors, masseuses, a singing coach, and a tattoo artist.

It’s not a ton of fun being a backup quarterback.

Unlike in Europe, where serving is often a career rather than a backup plan, American table-waiting remains a bootstrap business, and some of the biggest skeptics of waiter training courses and schools are seasoned servers themselves.

If you aspire to be an actor, go ahead. But do have a backup plan because you can’t predict your future in the industry.

When you get knocked down, you got to get backup. Otherwise, you are going to lose.

If I failed in acting, I wanted to have a backup, thus I chose architecture. I learnt painting as well.

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you’ve already admitted defeat.

As a football team, we don’t have any backups. We don’t consider anybody a backup.

Being the backup, as they call me, I have no pressure at all.

But I love singing, and I’ve been singing backup for friends’ bands.

Even though I hated being a backup as a competitor, I embraced my role and I found ways to get better on my own.

I’ve got the recognised care certificate, which everyone has to achieve to be able to get a job in a hospital. So, I’ve got a backup plan now!

On the one blind date I went on, I had a backup. If I texted you the code word, you call and say my dogs are sick.

My preparation doesn’t change from being a backup to a starter.

Sometimes you surf well and still don’t win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn’t mean much if you don’t have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.

No one ever dreams about being a backup quarterback.

We are in a situation where we can have a developing backup quarterback because of the excellence of Tony Romo. We can have that behind him. To me, that’s what you’re ideally striving for.

When I was at the ‘Philadelphia Inquirer,’ I was promoted nine times in my first 13 years. I ultimately went from general assignment to beats on St. Joe’s and Temple, to backup writer, to NBA writer, to NBA columnist, to, ultimately, in 2003, to general sports columns.