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Quotes About Bench

If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.
~ John Wooden
When I come off the bench, I have that intensity and that effort. That's something all of us guys are trying to bring, but especially the guys off the bench. Because we can play a role in any game, let alone the playoffs.
~ Pat Connaughton
A lot of coaches might yank you after the first couple shots don't go in.
~ Kevin Knox
I had to find a way of dealing with not starting matches, but when you don't play and you're surrounded by players who do, the negativity comes.
~ Demba Ba
You know my thoughts on arming morons," he'd once remarked from the bench after Raymer, then a young officer, had accidentally discharged his weapon, the wayward bullet narrowly missing an old woman seated on her commode half a block away. "If you arm one, you have to arm them all. Otherwise, it isn't even good sport.
~ Richard Russo
It seemed as though the secret of the universe had miraculously appeared right here at our feet, as though God's notebook had opened under our bench.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
In the dug-out, on the bench. The Anfield bench. Bill stared out at the players of Liverpool Football Club on the pitch. The Anfield pitch. In the sun, the players of Liverpool Football Club shining. In the sun, in their kits. Their red shirts, their white shorts. And their white socks. And in the dug-out, on the bench. The Anfield bench. Bill heard the whistle blow, Bill heard the crowd roar. The Anfield crowd.
~ David Peace
In Portugal the coach would sit on the bench and not say a word. We'd just play. It was a matter of us making mistakes and learning from them by ourselves. You understand the game a lot better that way.
~ Eric Dier
I want to make sure that I am always ready: that if I step off the bench, I will make a contribution, then be given my chance.
~ Craig Bellamy
It's not fun if you're sitting on the bench and aren't playing during Christmas. Damn, dude, I could've been watching this at home with my family. As long as you get some camera action on Christmas time, it's OK.
~ Baron Davis
I think you get in a situation where once you start hearing the boos and hearing the radio stations talk and people on the outside begin to bring your name up of being benched, then you begin to lose focus, and now your play begins to fall and you begin to focus on other things.
~ Donovan McNabb
God, I got lucky. If I'd hurt it, it would have put me out of practice for a while." Smiling, he returned to his chair. "I know. You kept telling me that while I was carrying you. You were very upset." "You...you carried me here?" "After we broke the bench apart and freed your foot." Man. I'd missed out on a lot. The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.
~ Richelle Mead
Mr. Bucket was the only person in the family with a job. He worked in a toothpaste factory, where he sat all day long at a bench and screwed the little caps onto the tops of the tubes of toothpaste after the tubes had been filled.
~ Roald Dahl
Someday, let us sit on this bench and reflect on the gratitude of man. Down in the audience, the ministers of the empire of Moses glanced at one another and nodded their heads. RM was right as usual, they whispered. Couldn't people see what he had done? Why weren't they grateful?
~ Robert A. Caro
I was sitting with the girl of my dreams on a bench in the Boston Public Garden watching the swan boats circle the little lagoon.
~ Robert B. Parker
I'm back in the game with my bonny mate, no? I believe I just scored a hat trick. You're officially off the bench, she breathed, cleared for play. With a fangirl who fell for you-
~ Kresley Cole
Sometimes I want to lie down on a park bench: that would change my status from Lost Inside to Lost Outside.
~ Yehuda Amichai
firm to which Sedley had belonged prior to being elevated to the bench had been founded by "a clandestine leader of the Communist Party.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
The preconceived opinion which they brought to the Bench was evidently this: "Dreyfus has been condemned for the crime of treason by a Court-Martial; he is therefore guilty, and we, the Court-Martial, cannot declare him innocent; for we know that to proclaim the guilt of Esterhazy would be to proclaim the innocence of Dreyfus.
~ Émile Zola
I was the Premier League's top goal scorer in 2010-11 and never wanted to be on the bench.
~ Dimitar Berbatov
If I'm on the bench in a Premier League game, I'm thinking, 'What can I do coming off the bench?'
~ Jack Wilshere
It was disappointing to be left out of the Premier League line-up, but it was a reality check to sit back and look on the bench.
~ Kyle Walker
When you're at Manchester United there are a set of demands, and one is to be a team player, and I don't think anyone has been on the bench more than me!
~ Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
It was my task to train hard and respect my team-mates all the time I wasn't playing or was on the bench, so I hope I did that.
~ Jan Vertonghen