Yards Quotes - Page 6

• Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire sweater unraveled into a pile of string. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Knitting, Sweaters, Hiking

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• You don't get hurt running straight ahead...three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. I will pound you and pound you until you quit.

  Woody Hayes

  Running, Hurt, Clouds

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• If someone asks you to run the 100 yard dash as fast as you can, you'll run the 100 dash as fast as you think you can. But if you put someone along side you who runs a little faster, you are going to run faster - whoa - I better step it up a little bit. I do things even I didn't know I was capable of.

  Kenny Rogers

  Running, Thinking, Littles

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• Let me tell you what's fun in golf - low scores. The manufacturers have tricked people into believing that distance is everything. There is no place on the scorecard that says you need to hit it 350 yards.

  Hal Sutton

  Fun, Distance, Believe

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• 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.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Weight, Arms, Awful

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• When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Death, Junk, Body

  Song: Cadillac Ranch, Album: The River, 1980

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• The dugout in the weeds or leaves beneath a backyard willow, the rivulet of a seasonal creek, even the ditch between the front yard and the road-all of these places are entire universes to a young child.

  Richard Louv

  Weed, Nature, Children

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.137, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line.

  Russell Wilson

  Dad, Nfl, Passing Away

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• I guess the way I describe it is when basketball players talk about being in the zone and they feel like they can't miss. That's the way a running back feels when the game is in slow-motion. It feels like every cut is right, every run is going to be at least 10 yards. You see what the defense is doing. You know what they're trying to do to you. It's awesome.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Basketball, Running, Cutting

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• Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Lying, Light, Junk

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• He seems faster too me. He could get seven to 10 yards in a pretty comfortable fashion. I went up to our defense and said `Hey guys, that guy is pretty fast.'

  Les Miles

  Fashion, Lsu, Guy

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• We all want to thank Emmitt for allowing us to enjoy every yard.

  Michael Irvin

  Sports, Want, Enjoy

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• So along with that is spending a lot of time with the ball. For me it was, I loved to juggle the ball in my front yard, and I always challenged myself - how many juggles can I get today? I think for players to get better, it's just about spending the time.

  Brandi Chastain

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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• Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.

  Paul Simon

  Death, Cartoon, Want

  Song: You Can Call Me Al

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• Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Horse, Men, Two

  Jerome K. Jerome (2018). “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (English French Edition illustrated): Trois Hommes dans un bateau(Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.62, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• There's a freeway running through the yard.

  Tom Petty

  Running, Reality, Freeways

  "Free Fallin'". Song by Tom Petty, 1989.

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• If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils, agates, and carcasses in every stage of decay. Though it was water that initially shaped the state, wind is the meticulous gardener, raising dust and pruning the sage.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Dust, Wind, Wyoming

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite me, and not more than three or four yards distant, suddenly fell down. Amid the general stillness and immobility about me the effect was quite startling. ... It was the sudden summing up of half a century or more of atomic changes in the material of the wall. A grain or two of sand yielded to the pressure of long years, and gravity did the rest.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Country, Wall

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• Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his yard to whip when he got home that very Sunday and her mother . . . was in church hearing him preach. He preached, You must obey your masters and be good servants.- That is the greater part of the sermon, when they preach to the colored folks. . . .'

  Gerry Spence

  Mother, Religious, Home

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.170, St. Martin's Press

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• When I play videogames I'm trying to go deep every pitch. I'm definitely not going to try to do that in real life. In the (video)game I'm trying to leave the yard.

  Dustin Pedroia

  Real, Games, Play

  Source: www.bayareasportsguy.com

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• A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.

  Ray Brown

  Holiday, Buyers, Kicks

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• You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.

  Amy Alcott

  Golf, Average, Practice

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• Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Three, Way, Ruins

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• I passed out in our front yard. But honey, don't turn out the light, cause I think I'm in the mood for love tonight.

  Robert Earl Keen

  Relationship, Thinking, Light

  Song: Don't Turn Out the Light, Album: West Textures

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• All I can tell you is I played with Johnny Mitchell. Johnny Mitchell was one of the greatest athletic talents I ever played with, but I could never trust him. When the game was on the line and he was supposed to run an out route at 10 yards, he would run an in route at eight and slide to the outside and scream to me that he was open. But it was how he got open that really made me uncomfortable in trusting him.

  Boomer Esiason

  Sports, Running, Eight

  "5 Questions For Boomer Esiason". Interview with Andrew Marchand, nypost.com. November 24, 2006.

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