Sidelined Quotes

I'm not used to being on the bench.

There is nothing harder for me than to sit at the sideline, not being able to be productive.

Only being able to watch is the hardest thing for any footballer.

Not playing is frustrating; you want to play in every game. But it's the life of a keeper. You'd rather be on the pitch than off.

Obviously in the world of sports, you go through different ups and downs than in normal life. You might be on top of the world playing or you're sidelined with an injury.

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

To those who don't think defense is important, you'll get the best seat on the bench.

There is nothing worse than not being involved. You are sitting there thinking, 'What exactly am I? A footballer who is not playing football?' You feel a bit worthless sitting in the stands, watching all the time.

Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the case anymore.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

You can be on a good team and not play at all.

In any awards ceremony, if you're a finicky person like myself, you can pick a multitude of things to nag about. I get frustrated with the comedy category because it feels like it gets sidelined a lot of the time for all kinds of things - not sidelined, marginalized.

Nobody likes to sit on the bench.

People don't understand how hard it is to be injured, not to be part of the team but to watch from the side.

You're not going to see me on the sidelines. I enjoy it, I miss it, but not enough to get back.

You never want to see a guy go on the DL.

So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.

Andy Johnson was literally banjoed out of the game