The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field — Wendy Mass
The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game. — Wim Crouwel
Sports is the toy department of human life. — Howard Cosell
The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts. — Darrell Royal
Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent. — Dan Marino
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball. — Bill Shankly
Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing. — Ellyse Perry
We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass. — Brian Clough
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray. — Joe Garagiola
In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city. — Jurgen Klopp
Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field. — Juliana Hatfield
If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf. — Nicky Gumbel
Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard. — Warren Buffett
Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves. — Grantland Rice
Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — Bobby Jones
Short Playing Fields Quotes
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. — Red Smith
In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game. — Hayden Fry
Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers. — Dan Quisenberry
When I get on the field, I feel unstoppable. — Steve McNair
That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears. — Geoffrey Chaucer
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
In my playing career, Anfield was the only ground where I had a feeling of being stuck. — Mikel Arteta
First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field. — Tom Landry
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Top 10 Playing Fields Quotes
I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game. — Tom Landry
We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field. — Ray Dalio
All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've had in modern times. — Mitch McConnell
If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity? — Maynard Jackson
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time. — Babe Ruth
Fifa stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well. — Sepp Blatter
I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs. — Christopher Dodd
I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else. — Aziz Ansari
We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained. — Derrick Bell
Playing Fields Image Quotes
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
Playing The Field Quotes
There's no reason that young girls shouldn't feel like they can't smash people on the field. Nothing dirty. You want to keep it clean. You just want to play hard. Get your jersey dirty, shorts dirty, and just have fun out there. — Carli Lloyd
It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating. — Paula Radcliffe
The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line. — Brian Boitano
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that. — Oscar Peterson
I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play. — Gary Carter
There is no level playing field. Any time our society says that a powerful chemical company has the same right as a low income family that's living next door, that playing field is not level, is not fair. — Robert D Bullard
Never change your originality for the sake of others. Because no one can play your role better than you.
Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us. — Elizabeth Warren
I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game. — Roy Clark
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity. — Charles Edison
I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game. — Roy Clarke
Playing Cards Quotes
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. — Voltaire
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. — Jack London
Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential. — Les Brown
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. — Steven Wright
She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it. — Louise Fletcher
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. — Randy Pausch
In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. I chose to investigate blackjack. As a result, chance offered me a new set of unexpected opportunities. — Edward O. Thorp
In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. — Edward O. Thorp
Level Playing Field Quotes
Are you ready to fight for good jobs and and a solid level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I am ready. You're ready. — Elizabeth Warren
President Obama believes in a level playing field. — Elizabeth Warren
Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come. — John Thorn
The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential. — James Surowiecki
These days we don’t have to fit into something other people think we are. We’ve leveled the playing field, life is inclusive. I’m a mom, sex detective, wife, fearless, gentle — we can now, with grace, be all of what we are. — Mariska Hargitay
I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level! — Erin Gruwell
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field. — John Gregory Dunne
We`re putting ourselves - we`re basically double taxing made in America products. And so what we`re saying is let`s equalize this so that we`re on a level playing field, so that American-made goods and services are on a level playing field with the rest of the world. — Paul Ryan
Society always needs a level playing field. In order to do that, you have to have opportunity, and providing that opportunity begins with 'how do we bridge that gap,' that so-called Digital Divide? How can we get internet into every home possible? — Jackie Joyner-Kersee
The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers. — George Will
Green Fields Quotes
In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line. — Harriet Tubman
In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball. — Pete Hamill
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white. — Sam Mendes
Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing. — Donald Worster
As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green. — John Thorn
Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red. — Edvard Munch
There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair. — Ida Tarbell
Johan was more than just a great soccer player. He was a role model who promoted world peace. He brought the values of education into the game of football and proved that on the field, everyone is equal - Jews, Muslims and Christians - that running fast and playing well will lead to victory in spite of discrimination and racism. — Roger Milla
I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else. — Wayne Gretzky
Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. — Nomar Garciaparra
Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple. — Jack Welch
For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread. — Maurice Herzog
If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs. — Paul Vallas
Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds. — Sachin Tendulkar
Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game. — Pete Rose
I really like to play inside. I really like being able to go one-on-one with an offensive lineman every play. At defensive end, you're more running up the field and containing more than you are just against an offensive lineman. — Darrion Scott
To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game. — Jerry Rice
In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard. — Warren Buffett
[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself. — Isidor Isaac Rabi
I am pushed by my critics. I don't want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder. — Hope Solo
I feel very privileged to be asked to be featured in another FIFA Soccer release, ... The game gives me the opportunity to play the matches I want to play every day of the week -- even while away from the field. — Ronaldinho
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. — Warren Beatty
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