Top 1200 Sitting On The Bench Quotes & Sayings

I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer was making me selfish - I was a mother with two children, and I needed a backup plan.

I feel as long as I'm playing productive minutes, I'll play. But if I'm sitting on the bench and not doing anything, then I'll retire.

To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.

My favourite pastime used to be sitting on a park bench watching people. But after 'Jagged Little Pill,' the eyeballs turned, and I was the watched one.

I was a goalkeeper, but through my career, I spent almost as much time sitting on the bench as I did playing.

When I'm by myself, I'm not threatening at all. I get many more invitations than I would if I were traveling with anyone else, especially with a man. But I'm rarely alone. I sit on a park bench and I'm not alone because I pick a park bench where somebody interesting is sitting.

I would prefer to play left-wing, striker or even goalkeeper - any other position - rather than sitting on the bench as a central midfielder.

I love to hoop and you can never get better just by sitting on the bench.

You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.

I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

If I'm on the bench in a Premier League game, I'm thinking, 'What can I do coming off the bench?'

I don't want to be a guy who's just sitting on the bench stealing money.

If I'm on the bench, it's the bench. If I'm playing five or 30 minutes, I'm good.

Even if I'm the 15th man on the bench, the first man off the bench, or I'm starting, I'm still part of that team.

I'm desperate to enjoy my football again and play until I retire. Obviously I'm 34 so I don't want to be sitting on the bench, I don't want to be remembering my last few years of my career like that.

I don't like sitting on the bench even when it was very rare at Hull to rest during cup games.

When I was 21, I did not have that much pressure. I was sitting down on the bench... you know... cleaning Sir Vivian Richards's boots or doing something... getting ready to play international cricket.

I don't know if it's ever happened to you, but it's one of my funniest and saddest experiences, when you go into a hotel, and they have an accessible walk-in shower. So you go in and open the curtain, and there is a bench off to the side of the shower. However, the shower is rectangular. On one side there's a bench, but the faucets are across from you. So if you sit on the bench, you cannot reach the faucets.

It's annoying to be on the bench - it's truly annoying - but it's a test you have to overcome, and that's how you progress. It's difficult because all you want is to be able to help the team, and when you're on the bench, you can't.

I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

When I'm sitting on the bench, I try to help the players who are out on the pitch.

It's easy to have chemistry when nobody is sitting on the bench.

I'm mentally drained even when I'm just sitting on the bench and not playing.

Sitting on the bench, scoring a goal, and then being back on the bench is quite difficult to deal with for an attacker.

Even though I was sitting on the bench at Arsenal, I made myself prepare like I was going to play, thinking about the game properly. I had to be ready.

I can't afford to do the highlight dunk and miss it because, if I do that, I'll be sitting right on the bench beside the coaches.

I don't like sitting on the bench because I get more nervous there than when I am playing!

At Norwich, I was injured, and then I went to Leicester, and I found myself on the bench. But I still used that to my advantage as an experience - I had to do that here at Spurs for a while, be on the bench and wait for my chance. It's definitely something that's helped me with my game.

The advantage of not starting is you're sitting back, looking at the game and saying, 'OK, we need rebounding,' or 'We need hustle points.' Coming off the bench, that's what you try to do. The disadvantage of it is you gotta catch that flow. You're coming off the bench, you gotta come ready, warmed up already, catch the flow of the game.

I know my first years sitting on the bench, largely behind Rickey Green, was a great learning tool for me.

The bench is really important in the NBA because if you have a good bench, then you can make that playoff push even harder.

There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them.

I can't keep sitting on the bench and letting my life go on, smoking a cigar and not doing anything. It's not me. I want to be playing football.

One of the greatest motivating things that a coach has is the bench. They all love to play, all of them. You sit them on the bench, and they come around pretty good.

I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, it’s true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isn’t all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. I’d like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin.

Manchester United will be hoping their bench can come off the bench

Individual grievances and pet peeves have got to go by the wayside. Generally, you don't have to worry about the guys who are playing every day, it's the guys who are sitting on the bench that are the ones that get needles in their pants.

My wife doesn't let anyone wear shoes in our house, so we have a bench, and under the bench is all UGGs slippers.

Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds.

I do disguises for different reasons. I like to study people - be like the fly on the wall. Even if it's two old ladies sitting on a bench or some kids on a swing. Because I don't know what it's like to fit in an everyday life situation.

I went from Chelsea to Fulham - two Premier League teams at the time - and was sitting on the bench for the Europa League and Premier League and you don't think it is going to finish.

I do not want to be sitting on the bench.

You can't get rich sitting on the bench.

Nobody dreams of being on the bench or sitting in the corner.

My dad would never, ever play me over somebody because I'm his son. If I'm not playing well, I'm sitting on the bench.

All my teammates, whether they've been playing with me or sitting on the bench and not dressing, they've supported me. I don't think I'd be too good a person if I didn't do at least the bare minimum of the same.

I would never have thought I was capable of sitting on the bench as the number two man. And it showed me that you can really achieve everything in life, even the unthinkable, as long as you're willing to work on yourself a little bit.

Regardless of whether I'm sitting on the bench or out there participating, I'm going to give my all whatever I'm doing.

I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.

You’re disgusting when you eat,” Chuck said, sitting on the bench next to him. “It’s like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.

There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.

It's easy to motivate a client when they are sitting on a bench right in front of you, but the real challenge for a trainer is to have that motivation exist even when you are not around.

I've always gotten doubled. Coming off the bench, people try to eliminate bench scorers, so that's been my experience for years now. You just find ways to beat it.

There are “bus bench” workouts and “park bench” workouts. A bus bench and a park bench look exactly the same, but your expectations sitting in them are radically different.

Maybe if I had signed for Chelsea I'd just have been sitting on the bench and what is the point in that?

When Javy Baez goes out there, man, you saw him before the game sitting on the bench, saw him waving into the camera, he's just being himself. I love that.

What you're getting on Twitter is me sitting on a bench, just with a lot less cuss words. Honestly.

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.