Yards Quotes

I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards. — Gale Sayers

his hat from his head and presses it to his chest. I walk a few dozen yards from the train, climb the grassy bank, and sit rubbing my — Sara Gruen

Some yards is better than none yards? — John Madden

A few hundred yards ahead a Michelin post showed where a small parochial road crossed with the highway. — Ian Fleming

He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him. — Bobby Robson

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards. — Bobby Jones

It creates an effective contrast, like riding a bike down a long and peaceful country road and every other hundred yards the bike turns into a bear. — Yahtzee Croshaw

shape about the size of a large dog hovering a few yards over his head. — Christie Golden

I got this grave yard woman. — Bob Dylan

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin. — Albert Camus

All those postage-stamp front yards we used to have were reminders that we like clear spaces to see predators coming. — Daniel H. Wilson

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. — Jack Adams

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

Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch. — Rick Pitino

Shoot you on the front porch and knock you to the back yard. — Lil' Wayne

For the first 40 yards I am one of the fastest guys. After that, it's a horse race. — Ray Rice

The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident. — Peter Drury

Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbors seeing. — Shaun Williamson

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

Extra Full - 45 yards. Full - 40 yards. Modified - 35 yards. Improved Cylinder - 30 yards. Cylinder - 25 Yards. — John Owen

They walked fifty yards in silence, and Strike had lit up a cigarette before he said: "Very, very impressive." Robin glowed with pride. — Robert Galbraith

Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Decisions Determine Destiny. — Thomas S. Monson

Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards." — Dave Barry

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

I approach football like a street-ball game, like I'm playing with the fellas in the yard. — Simeon Rice

He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150. — Bob Hope

The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line. — Stirling Moss

Funny how a wife can spot a blonde hair at twenty yards, yet miss the garage doors. — Corey Ford

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. — Todd Helton

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look. — Mark Leyner

My whole motto is get four yards, and if I get more than four, that's fine. — Corey Dillon

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. — Lewis Carroll

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. — Morris Gleitzman

You won't have to do anything but walk a few yards and repeat after the minister."
"Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! — Stephenie Meyer

The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard. — Charles Dickens

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. — Will Muschamp

On the shining yards of heaven
See a wider dawn unfurled ...
The eternal slaves of beauty
Are the masters of the world. — Bliss Carman

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint. — Booker T. Washington

It's not difficult to coach to just get 10 players right on your 18-yard box. — Brendan

There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

The word good has many meanings ... — Gilbert K. Chesterton

At the highest level the first two yards are in your head. — Bob Paisley

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

Said, leaving Langdon and moving several yards to a portable table covered with investigation — Dan Brown

I went out to the kitchen to make coffee - yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The lifeblood of tired men. It — Raymond Chandler

Let nature be in your yard. — Greg Peterson

We need to think less NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), and more SWIMBY (Something Wonderful In My Back Yard) — Rob Hopkins

I'm pretty confusing. But I do have an oil rig in my back yard. — Amber Heard

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it's valuable in a marathon. — Adam Grant

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. — Adrian Peterson

The squirrel in my yard really knows his way around the neighborhood. — Bob Saget

When you have mastered this technique, try to chip the ball to a partner 20 yards away. Roll — Andrew Latham

Amarillio, just turn to the left and 500 yards down — Peter Kay

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. — Ray Lewis

Matthew had won this battle - a battle in a war marked no more by yards on an open field, but by scars unseen. — Steve V. Cypert

I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need. — Patti Smith

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. — Ann Coulter

The mall at Christmastime was not for the faint of heart. I overloaded about thirty yards in. — Jordan Castillo Price

Fabregas literally carries 10 yards of space around in his shorts. — Ray Wilkins

The ref was vertically 15 yards away. — Kevin Keegan

Luke Willson ... I believe will have as many catches and more yards than Rob Gronkowski. — Sterling Sharpe

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. — James Gray

That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass. — Murdo MacLeod

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards. — Thalassa Cruso

There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car — Brett Weston

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue. — Lee Iacocca

Neighborhood grocery stores, coal yards, gas stations, cheap taverns, big old rundown houses, a few churches with blank embarrassed faces. — Ross Macdonald

Bluebeard, who said to Scottland Yard, How do I know how many wives I've killed? I'm not an accountant! Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

In his mind progress was always to be measured in inches, especially when you didn't have yards or even feet of success to show off. — David Baldacci

Death from hunger happened a hundred yards from death from obesity. — Anne Perry

My life, between 22 yards for 24 years ... It's hard to imagine that this is coming to an end. — Sachin Tendulkar

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. — George Clooney

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. — Marcus Allen

A lot of times I did lose yards on a run, but it wasn't for lack of trying. — Barry Sanders

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. — Pete Sampras

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

If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates. — Charles Bukowski

from 4,000 yards.4 He exceeded — Peter Padfield

Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard. — Joe Walsh

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic. — Edward Weston

For one does not have to be ignorant and poor to find that one's life is barren as the dusty yards of one's town — Eugenia Collier

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way. — Henry David Thoreau

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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every jungle creature for fifty or sixty yards started raising holy hell on the what-the-fuck-was-that party line. — Jim Butcher

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

Each dog barks in his own yard! — Rudyard Kipling

Not ten yards away, Cael was facing off — Thea Harrison

Undertaker, your yard is right in the middle of my world! — Triple H

I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can. — Dustin Pedroia

I hit a one-yard draw in there — Tiger Woods

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience. — Ray Bradbury

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 — Jim Carrey

It was futile to whisper because Yasha could hear a tick burp at fifty yards. — Lisa Shearin

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy. — Flannery O'Connor

As long as I can stay north or south, I'm gaining yards. — Jamal Lewis

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

Meaningless yards are not meaningful. — Jon Gruden

We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man. — Erich Maria Remarque