Top 181 Backup Quotes & Sayings

I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed.

Being the backup, as they call me, I have no pressure at all.

I did my first professional play at 11, and there was really nothing else I ever dreamed of doing. I felt so fortunate that I knew at the age of like, 12, like this is all I want to do for the rest of my life; that's the only play. There's no backup plan. My mom wanted me to go to school and have a backup plan. I'm like 'No, this is the only plan.'

I just wasn't getting anywhere. I was still a backup musician.

I don't think that I've ever been a backup.

I always went school with a backup plan. Everything I did was a backup plan because I never was the most talented guy. I wasn't, you know, the superstar at all.

There's this big rumor that I was a backup dancer when I was 11. Not true!

If you think you're going to be a backup, you're going to be a backup.

I never got in this to be a 3rd PG, or a backup. Nor did I get into this for money.

I was always in so much of a hurry when I was playing a backup role - just doing everything.

As a football team, we don't have any backups. We don't consider anybody a backup.

A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks.

On the one blind date I went on, I had a backup. If I texted you the code word, you call and say my dogs are sick.

You might be a redneck if the dog catcher calls for a backup unit when he visits your house.

When I was a backup singer, I enjoyed it.

I can't name a backup point guard better than me in the NBA.

To be honest, football is my main goal. I never really had a backup plan.

I used to read voraciously while in school and cinema was always a fascination. Law was the safe backup plan.

My family was always very supportive. Whether you're an actor or not, everybody hears the horror stories of people going to L.A. and trying to be an actor, and their dreams are crushed, and they end up working for the IRS. So they were always protective to the point that they wanted me to have a backup plan, which is understandable, but there was always something inside of me that knew: backup plan, schmackup plan.

Even if you're in a backup role, you've always got to prepare yourself.

We are in a situation where we can have a developing backup quarterback because of the excellence of Tony Romo. We can have that behind him. To me, that's what you're ideally striving for.

I never had a backup plan. I felt like if I had a backup plan, it was like saying to the universe that I didn't believe in myself.

I have a backup plan. Everybody should have a backup plan. I am a banker. The day you all get bored of me and don't want to watch my films, I will go back to banking.

Connect with supportive people who empower you. The more you jump into your life, the further away from Ed you can get. Don't have a backup plan for living. Live today. [...] Trust in God. Believe in yourself. Get friends and family members to stand behind you. That's the only backup you'll need.

When I am tired, it is easy to say I need a backup - and if that only happens every three months, it's not ideal and also difficult for Mr. Backup.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

Everybody loves the backup.

It can't hurt to have a backup.

I never had a backup plan. I've only been good at one thing. I admire people who are jacks-of-all-trades. That's not me.

Always have a backup plan.

I was a backup dancer at one point for a group that was on RCA.

Don't let uncertainty talk you into pursuing a backup plan instead of your purpose.

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

Pursue your dreams but have a backup plan.

The odds are stacked against you becoming a footballer, so my family made sure I always had a backup plan.

If you come in this league, and you're comfortable with being a backup, something's wrong.

There is no one quite as popular in any form of football as the backup QB.

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

I didn't go to college. I don't have a whole lot of options as far as backup plans.

If you aspire to be an actor, go ahead. But do have a backup plan because you can't predict your future in the industry.

Even though I hated being a backup as a competitor, I embraced my role and I found ways to get better on my own.

I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!

It's a misconception that singers in Punjab use music as a backup in case their acting fails. For me, singing is the front, it's not the backup, it was acting that happened by chance.

I wanna get backup singers, but I don't think I will ever get backup dancers.

I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.

No one ever dreams about being a backup quarterback.

The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses.

I love acting. I had a backup option in writing or direction. But I have gone on to become an actor.

They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays. "Oh, I am planning things," said Jamie. "Great, great things. I could join a band." "You gave up the guitar after two lessons." "Well," he said, "I could be a backup dancer." "Backup dancers have to wear belly shirts and glitter," said Mae. "So obviously, I support this plan.

When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.

Since I was a D-team backup quarterback in seventh grade, I've loved the game.

Most computers today have built in backup software.

It's not a ton of fun being a backup quarterback.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

I have to buy three of everything. It doesn't make any sense, but I have to. I'm worried I might lose it, and if I lose it, then I have a backup and then I have a backup to my backup.

If you draft a player to be a backup, why did you draft him? You're drafting a guy because you think he's worthy of being drafted at that spot, but you're also drafting him because you think he can compete. If you're going to say, 'This guy's a backup,' - really? That doesn't make any sense to me.

Robin could be a backup, to maybe Tim Duncan. That's cool. It's possible, probably unlikely, but it's his dream.

Me as a backup center? Hell no.

If I failed in acting, I wanted to have a backup, thus I chose architecture. I learnt painting as well.