Top 363 Yards Quotes & Sayings

I can hit the whiskers on a cat with a football from a distance of forty yards.

The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. "Half a mile." "Fifty yards." Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say "Thirty-six C." Or "Let's try it in the next size up." But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.

I'm negative-three yards in the rushing department. Nobody wants to go out with negative-three yards rushing.

I kind of want to break the NFL record in yards.

Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even matter. Do I make sense? I mean, come on.

The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident.

In the NFL, if you make the play or you don't make the play, you're just a football player who did or didn't make the play. You don't get more yards or less yards based on what you're labeled as by society.

Fabregas literally carries 10 yards of space around in his shorts.

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

I had 1,000 yards when I played on plantar fasciitis before.

Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent silk or velvet. I own an unjustifiable number of such outfits and jump at the chance to wear them. Against the etiquette about which I am otherwise all too conscious, I frequently, and unrepentantly, overdress for the occasion.

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

Whether it's yards, touchdowns, catches, if you just do what you're supposed to do, you're eventually going to get the ball.

For the first 40 yards I am one of the fastest guys. After that, it's a horse race.

If I am running 100 yards, I should be cut. Because then I am getting beat. I do not need to be doing that. I need to be running 20, 30, 40 yards as fast as I can over and over and over at optimal energy and efficiency and speed.

I loved playing in the Big Ten, where it's three yards and a cloud of dust.

He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.

My life, between 22 yards for 24 years... It's hard to imagine that this is coming to an end.

I've had the acting bug since I was, like, five. But growing up, I saw how people treated me differently when they knew who my father was, even the stuff I did on the field. Sometimes I'd rush for 100 yards, and the headline would be, 'Denzel's son runs for 100 yards.' That's where the suppression of that bug came from.

Amarillio, just turn to the left and 500 yards down

Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards."

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.

The awful thing about being fat is you can't get away from it. Everywhere you go, there it is; all round you; hanging and swinging, yards and yards of it, under your arms, everywhere. And everyone else is so thin.

You cover 50 yards on the playing field of faith with a story that downplays your success. You cover 3 yards, or you may even end up backward, with anything that up-plays or promotes you.

The fact is football players get beat all the time in the course of a game. But if it happens to a defensive tackle, it's usually 5 or 10 yards. With us, it's 76 yards.

At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.

The more space you have there, the better it is for the quarterback, because he's got room to move around there to avoid a rush. And also, after the point of contact, if the rusher does beat me, he still has to go another four yards before he makes a sack. Versus if you drop straight back, he only has to go two more yards.

Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

I don't really have any specific numbers as far as what I want to do, how many touchdowns, how many yards. I just want the film to look good, and hopefully that translates to me having a lot of yards and touchdowns, which ultimately leads to us having a shot at the Super Bowl.

Yards don't matter. The score is all that matters.

A lot of times I did lose yards on a run, but it wasn't for lack of trying.

The ref was vertically 15 yards away.

A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.

I don't believe you have to throw the ball 80 yards every play.

I want to lead the league in yards, touchdowns, basically about everything a receiver can do.

There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car

I think you can't have swagger when you're giving up 30 points or four- or five-hundred yards.

Funny how a wife can spot a blonde hair at twenty yards, yet miss the garage doors.

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

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?'

In practice, I think I've thrown it 82 yards, one time. In a game, I don't think I've pushed it that far - probably 60, 65 yards in the air.

If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.

I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what's it all for?

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

My thing is yards after catch. I can say it's one the favorite things to do on the football field.

I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

When I read "The Whole Nine Yards" I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role'.

As long as I can stay north or south, I'm gaining yards.

My main focus is to get positive yards.

The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.

Some yards is better than none yards?

If you go 90 yards in a hundred-yard race, you come last. Usain Bolt slows down for the last half a yard, but for 99 yards, he is that far ahead that he can. In our business, you can't be far enough ahead. It is such a competitive marketplace.

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

Meaningless yards are not meaningful.

I've accomplished a lot of things - Pro Bowls, 10K-plus yards, the accolades are there.