Top 159 Starter Quotes & Sayings

It's true that at Malaga, I played every game as a starter, but here at Madrid, they give nothing away.

I want to win a championship. I can't come on this team and demand to be a starter.

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

I'm like a slow starter. Everything I've done has built, or has taken a while.

I would love to start if a coach considered me as a starter.

I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.

Of all the years playing football, I have never felt like an undisputed starter - that would be an error.

I train every day to be a starter.

I became a starter in Portland, and then I lost my spot, but for what reason? It wasn't explained to me. I thought it was unfair.

When my number is called, nobody cares if I am a starter or not. They just care if I make plays or if I'm productive.

My last four years in Orlando, I was a really good player but I wasn't a full-time starter.

There is no question that food is a conversation starter.

I think the toughest job in football is always to be the starter, because everybody looks to you for guidance.

It's a different mind-set going into the off-season as a starter. The uncertainty from the team is gone, and your confidence grows.

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

Guys that are playing in the preseason are one play away from being a starter.

Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

Even if you watch the races I won - the indoor titles and the Olympics - I've never really been a superfast starter.

I'm not the No. 1 starter. I'm not the guy that's going to carry the staff for four months out of the season, but I can contribute in a lot of ways. And to me I'm very proud of that.

Nobody is guaranteed to be a starter; thinking that would be a mistake.

With the Selecao, every substitute is a starter in their club teams, so the competition is always top notch.

Hillary Clinton is a non-starter and lacks the integrity to lead this nation, but Trump has a long way to go to earn the support of many - me included.

I want to be a starter in this league.

What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.

I obviously want to be a starter.

You do not have to be The fastest starter. Just be a starter! You will, without fail, Reach your destination-sun.

I don't want to be one of those guys where I go there and wait a long time before I become a starter.

I'm not stupid: if I have not been a starter with Ancelotti, Benitez and Zidane, it's my fault.

Obviously I want to be a starter and to win things with Real Madrid.

I am a late starter. I like to go on into the night when it's quiet and everything has shut down. I find that's where music and minds open in the dark.

I always prepare like I'm a starter. Three-down back.

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

Nick Foles, if he wasn't preparing like he was the starter, he wouldn't have been able to become a Super Bowl MVP.

If I am ever the starter of the Denver Broncos, I want it to be because I earned it.

In the first season with Sarri I only played six games as a starter.

Everyone wants to be a starter, that is clear, but the one who makes those decisions is the coach. It is up to us to work hard and be at our best when we are needed.

It's completely normal that every player wants to be a starter. But ultimately the coach decides and we have to accept it.

I want to be the horse in the rotation that everybody can really rely on and is going to get that consistent starter.

When Peyton went into the game and remained the starter, it was OK with me because our team was winning games. We won a championship.

I've wanted to be a starter ever since I was a little kid, so I wasn't going to give up on that dream.

I knew when I came here it wouldn't all be easy, that I wouldn't play every game. But my goal was to be a part of Bayern, to be a starter. I want to achieve things here.

My dream is eventually becoming the greatest talent to come out of the United States and New York, being a starter, and playing for my country.

It was a great feeling to be named an All-Star starter, to know that my hard work is paying off and fans around the world are recognizing that.

I know I'm good enough to be a starter and I'm a much more productive player when I get starter minutes. But I don't have to start. That's not me.

Not many people do what Jameis Winston did: first year as a starter winning a national championship, only one loss in his two years as a starter. He's got great charisma. He's polarizing for some people, but he's a rare talent.

I'm a slow starter.

I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.

I have always been there to help the team, sometimes coming off the bench, other times as a starter.

I was 0-11 as a starter, and there were times when I walked off the field wondering if I'd ever win a game in the NFL.

I hope that I will be the starter and that I'll play important minutes.

I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.

I was a walk-on at Maryland, I had to earn my scholarship and starter spot, and the things that've come after.

Then i starter krompy kromp with Kroomp Krompp and the i kromped all over the Krommmmp!

I feel like I've proven that I can be a starter in this league, and I want to be respected in that way.

When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.

Everybody wants to be a starter, and I feel like I'm a starter in this league, but I can't necessarily control that.

Every linebacker that plays in the NFL wants to be a starter.

Whenever you don't have a good game, whether you're a starter, reliever, whatever, you definitely want to get out there again as soon as you can.

Everybody would like to be starter, but if I'm not, it's no big deal for me.

Be a self-starter. Do it now! When you don't know how to do something, start. Beware of the paralysis of analysis. Be a person of action.