Quotes about Yards

The ref was vertically 15 yards away. Votes: 4

He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150. Votes: 4

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic. Votes: 4

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. Votes: 4

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard. Votes: 4

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. Votes: 4

Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands. Votes: 4

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 Votes: 4

The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part. Votes: 4

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I feel like I just returned a 100-yard kickoff in the last two minutes of the Super Bowl to win it all, only to have my run called back by a flag on the play. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.' Votes: 4

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Votes: 4

A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor. Votes: 4

Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard. Votes: 4

We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost. Votes: 4

I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown. Votes: 4

As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture. Votes: 4

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards." Votes: 3

When I read "The Whole Nine Yards" I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role'. Votes: 3

I've been treated there (Camden Yards in Baltimore) just like everywhere else: you got everyone booing for you. I take that as a compliment. Votes: 3

Is Coors Field a good park to hit in? Yeah. So are Wrigley Field and Camden Yards. I didn't design Coors Field-I just play there. Votes: 3

I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only one that's lost money. Votes: 3

'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. Votes: 3

Meaningless yards are not meaningful. Votes: 0

Some yards is better than none yards? Votes: 0

Amarillio, just turn to the left and 500 yards down Votes: 0

Fabregas literally carries 10 yards of space around in his shorts. Votes: 0

There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car Votes: 0

The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line. Votes: 0

The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident. Votes: 0

At the highest level the first two yards are in your head. Votes: 0

As long as I can stay north or south, I'm gaining yards. Votes: 0

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin. Votes: 0

Luke Willson... I believe will have as many catches and more yards than Rob Gronkowski. Votes: 0

If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates. Votes: 0

My whole motto is get four yards, and if I get more than four, that's fine. Votes: 0

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards. Votes: 0

The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me. Votes: 0

Funny how a wife can spot a blonde hair at twenty yards, yet miss the garage doors. Votes: 0

For the first 40 yards I am one of the fastest guys. After that, it's a horse race. Votes: 0

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies. Votes: 0

My life, between 22 yards for 24 years... It's hard to imagine that this is coming to an end. Votes: 0

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience. Votes: 0

Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards). Votes: 0

It doesn't matter matter how many yards you ran for last year. You've got to do it again. Votes: 0

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. Votes: 0

A lot of times I did lose yards on a run, but it wasn't for lack of trying. Votes: 0

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards. Votes: 0

The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage. Votes: 0

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. Votes: 0

Anyone starting to garden... would be wise to look around carefully and see what grows well in other people's yards. Votes: 0

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way. Votes: 0

I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards. Votes: 0

In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust. Votes: 0

My son's 18, 142 pounds and hits it 40 (yards) by me. Instead of to the pin, he's lasering the distance between me and him. Votes: 0

On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world. Votes: 0

I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move. Votes: 0

When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples' yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age. Votes: 0

I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons. Votes: 0

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look. Votes: 0

It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards. Votes: 0

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself. Votes: 0

When I picture England, I picture little gardens and beautiful yards. I don't really like cities; I like to go and see things like that. Votes: 0

Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards. Votes: 0

A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same. Votes: 0

Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the President. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick? Votes: 0

Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers. Votes: 0

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble. Votes: 0

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones. Votes: 0

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes. Votes: 0

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking. Votes: 0

The human body has absolutely no requirement for animal flesh. Nobody has ever been found face-down 20 yards from Burger King because they couldn't get their Whopper in time. Votes: 0

Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed. Votes: 0

It's grossly unfair to judge Walter Payton solely on the yards he gains. He is a complete football player, better than Jim Brown, better than O.J. Simpson. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If we (Lauren and Jim) ever get married, we're just going to put helmets on, run into each other from a hundred yards, and smash together like rams Votes: 0

He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head. Votes: 0

she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. Votes: 0

My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting. Votes: 0

I'm not an athlete; I'm a quarterback. I don't have great speed, and I can't throw 90 yards down the field. I win games because I've done the mental preparation. Votes: 0

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you. Votes: 0

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe... Votes: 0

The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age. Votes: 0

I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous. Votes: 0

People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error. Votes: 0

Figure out where you are on the field. If you're past 15 or so yards, the ball is going down the field. When you're in great position, you're able to control the receiver. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away. Votes: 0

Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life. Votes: 0

I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none. Votes: 0

I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind, wrapped in leg irons, and I beat him. Votes: 0

The enemy are only 50 yards from us. We are heavily outnumbered. We are under devastating fire. I shall not withdraw an inch but will fight to our last man and our last round. Votes: 0

Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn't score. So what does that say? Votes: 0

I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy. Votes: 0

There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards. Votes: 0

A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car. Votes: 0

When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing. Votes: 0

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards. Votes: 0

What's the longest walk in golf? It's from the practice tee to the first tee. I don't care if it's 10 yards. It's the longest walk in golf. Winners take their swing with them. Losers don't. Votes: 0

In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels. Votes: 0