I was a team captain, I was the guy for the first couple years. And then all of the sudden I was just the backup. It wasn’t easy. I think it would be easy to bow my head and feel sorry for myself, but I knew as a captain I had to be a great teammate.
The rationale for eliminating the alternative minimum tax is that such a backup system should not be necessary if the tax code is fundamentally fair and eliminates all the loopholes that made it possible for high-income taxpayers to escape taxation in the first place.
I was a backup dancer at one point for a group that was on RCA.
Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation – the backup to everything it does.
I cycled on a crew assignment as the backup commander on Apollo 16 and would have flown Apollo 19 on a return mission to the moon. However, the last few missions of the Apollo Program were canceled for budgetary reasons. So I lost my second opportunity to land on the moon.
To be a backup singer, you have to walk into any situation and just be perfect from the first take to the 50th take.
I have to buy three of everything. It doesn’t make any sense, but I have to. I’m worried I might lose it, and if I lose it, then I have a backup and then I have a backup to my backup.
As a kid, Terry Bradshaw didn’t amaze me. My hero was Steelers backup Terry Hanratty, who nabbed two Super Bowl rings while completing three passes.
Everybody loves the backup.
Backup dancers are completely respectable. They’re the studio musicians of dance.
Always have a backup plan.
A lot of people say, ‘Oh, playing backup quarterback, that’s the best position in the world.’ Well, what they don’t understand is when we leave the building at 5 o’clock on Wednesday or Thursday when practice wraps up, we still need to go home and study and prepare just like you’re the starter.
Most computers today have built in backup software.
I’m a backup quarterback at the University of Dayton. I was a one-year starter in high school. I think I got the job in high school because our quarterback left and went to another school.
Even if you’re in a backup role, you’ve always got to prepare yourself.
I actually watched Tom Brady a good amount in college. My coach in college was Kliff Kingsbury, and he actually was a backup for Brady at one point, and so he showed me things that he liked with Tom and his pocket movements and stuff he did within the pocket that I’ve tried to put in my game a little bit.
I never got in this to be a 3rd PG, or a backup. Nor did I get into this for money.
I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!
My mom was very worried when I was starting off my career in the film industry. She never told me to not take up acting, but she would always tell me to have a backup plan so that if nothing works out in the acting career, then I can switch.
It’s definitely hard when you’re putting in the work and the guy who’s starting isn’t, especially if he’s overhyped or you’re not winning. I can’t imagine how hard it would be to be that guy’s backup.
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