Top 85 Sideline Quotes & Sayings

In his time both on the field and on the sideline, Jack Pardee will forever be a part of the Washington Redskins' legacy.

I know how it feels to sit on the sideline and watch a spot that is supposed to be yours taken.

All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.

I'm fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as long as I want with books.

If I'm not on the court, I have to be there to cheer my teammates on and from the sideline be there mentally and keep guys locked in and focused.

Footwork is definitely key for a linebacker. We make our money playing laterally. You've got to be able to move side to side and play sideline to sideline. So doing quick feet drills like ladders and keeping your footwork right is important.

Sideline reporting was a great way to be a part of the game and develop relationships, but it's no big secret that it's relatively limiting.

I don't want to collect any paychecks as a cheerleader on the sideline.

All I know is that when you look over at the coaches on the other sideline, and all you see are guys who either coached with you or played for you, then you know it's time to get out.

I can just remember games as a young player, counting my stats on the sideline. 'What am I now? I'm this many completions for this many attempts. I wonder what my rating is.'

Thanks to fantasy football and 'Madden' on Xbox Live there are legions of jersey adorning sports fanatics who think they're equipped to stand on the sideline with a headset.

Fashion was more of a sideline for me. I did it for the money.

I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.

I understand that at times coaches get heated, and there are things they don't really want to talk about. As a sideline reporter, you're in the line of fire, and I just got lit up once. And that's fine.

I just know when I'm on the sideline, I can't expect somebody to push me out of bounds.

I don't if I can handle not being on the sideline and being part of a team trying to win a football game on Friday nights.

It might be okay for somebody else on the roster to sit on the sideline but it's not okay for me to be. I'm the franchise player, I'm the guy on both the microphone and in the ring.

I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.

I've always been a guy to keep positive energy on the sideline.

I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.

I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

They don't draft you to sit there and stand on the sideline.

Michael Vick almost got hurt on the sideline.

A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

My all-time favorite interception was picking off Peyton Manning back in 2007, the one-hander down the sideline.

Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

There have always been and there always will be the peripheral sideline activities which are a form of entertainment, which is to say you pay a couple of cents and you see something freakish. That is what reality TV is.

There is nothing harder for me than to sit at the sideline, not being able to be productive.

I was very emotional. I cried when I got into the locker room. I didn’t want to show that stuff on the sideline.

I obviously preferred the analyst role to the sideline role because your opportunity to impact the broadcast was drastically different.

Michelle Tafoya - best NFL sideline reporter - period. She is always prepared and professional.

I want the University of Florida to be successful. I'm always going to be a Gator, unless I'm on the other sideline.

A couple jobs that I would love to do are hosting a television show, sideline reporting for the NBA or NFL, on-camera hosting for an entertainment network, event planning for a PR company or resort and, of course, WWE Diva!

God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.

I was always the sideline reporter or something similar to that - which is essentially, but this isn't always true, the 'woman's job.'

I know sometimes when you get injured, a lot of the time you're in the training room. But getting out there on the court - if you're on the sideline cheering them on or even at practice, you've just gotta talk and communicate in that way.

We do have evidence the [Donald] Trump campaign was working to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue.

I'll never forget the 2019 edition of International Fight Week for a couple of reasons: Not only did I experience my first earthquake, but I also got to work as a sideline reporter for three NBA Summer League games.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.

Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it's like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.

When we played against Dan Marino, the best defense was to keep him on the sideline. By keeping him on the sideline, you made him frustrated. You made him anxious. When he came on the field, he felt like he had to score every time. I think that is where Peyton Manning is.

I was on the sideline for the '85 Super Bowl, but I was going to college.

I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.

My dad was a high school and college coach, and in my house my dad muted sideline reporters because he wasn't interested in what they had to say.

When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'

You can't sideline players who can take a good helping for themselves in the Power Plays.

I didn't ever intend to or want to be an actor. I'm not one of those people of whom they say, 'If you can't live without it, that's the only reason you should be an actor.' It was kind of a sideline that became my whole life.

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

If you love this game, you always want to be out there, not in the sideline dressed in the street clothes. Especially when you know you can help the team.

Golf is my real profession. Entertainment is just a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees.

The press and free speech landscape has totally changed. There is far less news reporting today. Instead, we have this endless stream of - largely meaningless and speculative - analysis by sideline commentators and self-proclaimed "experts."

You have to find the sideline-to-sideline guys who can play every down.

It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.

We actually had a toilet on the sideline in college. We had like a little mini-toilet; we'd go and flush it.

Cinema was my passion and I am sure that if you are talented, nobody can sideline you because you are just a comedian.

During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails.