Armchair Expert Quotes

Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.

At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

Back seat drivers don’t know the feel of the wheel but they sho’ know how to make a fuss" Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, “Let’s Keep It Between Us,” 1982

I think there's something inherently interesting in the Monday morning quarterback: the guy who, you know, sits at one end of the briefing room and tells everyone what they should've done and how they've screwed up.

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

I think it's always easier to sit on the outside and act as if you have the best solution.

Arm chair warriors often fail.

Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it

I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.