Yards Quotes

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

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Balls, Jewelry

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• I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.

  Lettie Cowman

  Party, Feet, House

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• It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.

  Glenn Close

  Thinking, House, Tragedy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Dance, Football

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• The word good has many meanings.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Grandmother, Grand Mother

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• If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

  Jesse Owens

  Hockey, Winning, Advice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.

  Herschel Walker

  Football, Play, Mind

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• The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Grandmother, Men, Good Man

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• If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both

  George Best

  Thankful, Past, Player

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• The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage.

  John Madden

  Balls, Lines, Way

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• Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.

  Janet Macunovich

  Design, Window, Outside Looking In

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• On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.

  James Stockdale

  Air, Railroads, Bombs

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• Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression ? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

  Zadie Smith

  Beautiful, Clever, Self

  "White knuckle ride". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2000.

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• My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.

  Wilbur Smith

  Father, Air, My Family

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• 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.

  Walter Payton

  Senior, Running, Cutting

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• The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

  Julian Sands

  Mumbai, Bombay, Incredibles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.

  Seth Rogen

  Good Things

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• I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

  Dennis Quaid

  Golf, Needs, Balls

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• Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

  Ross Perot

  Motivational, Strength, Success

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• Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.

  Iggy Pop

  Garden, Use, Toilets

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• 'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.

  Matthew Perry

  Dark, Ideas, Nine

  Larry King Live, transcripts.cnn.com. August 22, 2002.

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• When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

  Lee Trevino

  Goes On, World, Poor

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• Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Lying, Wife, Inspire

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.834, Race Point Publishing

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• The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Memories, Night

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• If they'd been dogs, they would have all been in the yard eating grass and trying to yak up whatever was making them feel so lousy. Not a bone gnawed, not a ball chased-all tails went unwagged. Oh, life is a fast cat, a short leash, a flea in that place where you just can't scratch.

  Christopher Moore

  Dog, Cat, Trying

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove: Book 2: Pine Cove Series”, p.44, Hachette UK

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