Yards Quotes

• If you make a lot of yards and you turn the ball over, then you don't score points, ... So that's a tough lesson to learn. Maybe I'm looking at the good side of it Maybe it's good we get the lesson now. Last year, we started out the season and that's exactly what haunted us -- we turned the ball over and right now we're next to last in the league in terms of giveaways and takeaways.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Game
  • Training

• The ref was vertically 15 yards away.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Soccer
  • Yards
  • Refs

• He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Great
  • Gone
  • Fading Away

• Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

  

  Morris Gleitzman
  • Advice
  • Asks
  • Prepared

• It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Music
  • High
  • Sky

• Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Why
  • Window
  • Junk

• We don't give up a lot of yards, just too many big plays.

  

  Brian Urlacher
  • Plays
  • Yards
  • Don't Give Up

• In L.A., I called every scrap yard and surplus place that was listed, about 50 or 60 places, and only at one of them did the owner get intrigued and let me go around the yard to find stuff. Because the insurance regulations are such that you can't go into the places anymore.

  

  Z'EV
  • Stuff
  • Insurance
  • Regulation

• I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move.

  

  George Clooney
  • Moving
  • Found
  • Spears

• I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.

  

  Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
  • Horse
  • Views
  • Yards

• I've got enough yards to last me a lifetime. Right now, it's just about doing whatever I can to help this team win. I'm just going to finish strong.

  

  Corey Dillon
  • Help
  • Win
  • Lifetime

• Some of the stainless steel discs that I play, I cut myself from pieces of stainless steel that I found. I don't make as many as I used to, because you can't get into surplus and scrap yards as easily anymore.

  

  Z'EV
  • Play
  • Cutting
  • Yards

• The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Business
  • Baseball

• It's like a mile race and you're 50 yards ahead. This is as close as it can be without being a tie.

  

  Gary Player
  • Race
  • Yards
  • Mile

• Ordinary Americans can't pollute for free. You can't dump your trash on the sidewalk or throw all your refuse into your neighbor's yard. I don't understand why corporate polluters should be allowed to dump megatons of carbon, the most dangerous pollution in the history of the world, into our thin shell of an atmosphere, and not pay a penny to do it.

  

  Van Jones
  • World
  • Why
  • History

• I think we know we are No. 1. I don't think yards equal wins. Yards are big, but points are the main thing that matters. We did not play very well and gave up a bunch of yards and I think we lost our No. 1 status, but points are a big deal and I think we hold that.

  

  Brian Urlacher
  • Wins
  • Yards
  • Big Deal

• My whole motto is get four yards, and if I get more than four, that's fine.

  

  Corey Dillon
  • Get
  • Motto
  • Yards

• Well, if quarterback drops start going to 40 yards, then we're going to be concerned. As long as they stay in that 10-yard level, we're going to be OK.

  

  Brian Billick
  • Level
  • Quarterback
  • Yards