Pads Quotations | Page 2

At certain times, he's got to put his pads down and get us one or two yards. Not everything can pop outside for a touchdown. That's a fine line though, when you have a back that's special.

As much as we do in sports to protect athletes, it's hard to figure why there aren't pads out there. That pole is a hard object. You don't want someone going face first into that.

It was exciting for the players to put on full pads. Full pads allow the coaches to better evaluate the players. The players seem to step it up a notch when the full contact starts.

It's a challenge every day that I put the pads on and go out there and play the position I play. If we fit the gaps like we're supposed to, we'll be fine.

It's great to see. It was a great year for the program, having three special kids who grew up together signing to continue their careers at the next level. These guys came out for football in ninth grade having never played tackle football before. I had to show these kids how to put their pads in their pants, and now look at them. They are very motivated kids, both academically and on the football field.

It's great to have our equipment all in one place. We won't be having to lug the high jump pads back and forth to Leary Field anymore.

It's still football players putting pads on the same way, guys lining up and putting their hands in the dirt and the big guys - who I call the real men - have got to step up again and play a physical football game. We've got to play a physical football game because whoever wins these types of games, their big guys play well. Point blank.

Each of the (Brattleboro) players, particularly the seniors who have played a long time, I think they feel particularly bad for this kid. Every player that puts on the pads knows it could happen to them. ... The fragility of athletes' careers is highlighted when something like this happens.

The back of (the dog's) feet were totally covered in blood, and there was almost nothing left of the pads on the bottom of his feet. He didn't die right away. He fought for his life.

Taking dogs in certain areas you have to watch the pads of their feet.

It went OK. I can't complain. I was out there, I was in pads and I finished practice.

The water and sewer infrastructure is well under way, with pads built for the homes.

They wanted to gauge where I was with my pads on. I feel I did a pretty good job today.

It was just a matter of the first half of the practice wearing all the rust off but I think overall we got done what we wanted to. There was a lot of excitement and everybody was eager to get back. We weren't in full pads but everybody wanted to get out and hit the first day but we know we can't do that. It was a pretty energetic practice.

Anytime you start spring ball or fall ball, things always favor the defense a little bit because they have less to think about. You have no pads on, and usually the defense is a little bit more aggressive, so it's tough for the offense to counter.

The message to the players is we don't panic. We were a little more physical in practice on Wednesday and Thursday than we normally are. We don't wear shoulder pads in the Thursday practice, but we did this week. We still did the same tackle drills, though.

I have so far to go, I mean so far to go, but I can already see where it's paying off a little bit. I need to improve on consistency with my technique. I have to keep my pads down on every play. Have to be a better student of the game and break my opponents down better. It's going to take time.

I like rugby - I watch it from time to time. It's basically football without pads but probably a little bit more dangerous than football. You've got to be a lot tougher in that sport - but I definitely like watching rugby and watching those guys knock each other around. It looks like a fun sport.

I'm pretty hopeful that the public will be favorable to it this time because we have had some comments that the lily pads are getting to be too much.

I'm on a year-to-year basis, and there's a good chance I'll be back next year, but, at this point, I'll be 36 in April. If I'm productive and I stay healthy, I'll go in and see how I feel. I had the hamstring problem early this season, and that bothered me. The last six, seven weeks I've played pretty good football. We've taken the pads off, so that helps me a little bit. It's kind of hard for me to hit a little.

I'm tired of working out. We've been putting in a lot of work over the summer and guys are feeling great. I think we're really ready to put on the pads and get going. And once Saturday comes, I think all that hard work is going to show.

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

I really like the Glycolic Cleansing Pads because they're super easy. Sometimes it's annoying to scrub your face with your hands, but these are just little pads, so I like that. I also really like the Kale Fix Moisturizer and Dragon's Blood Fix Serum. The Dragon's Blood is good for priming before your makeup.

I realized he didn't see it and I tried to put my stick behind him. Then I accidentally hit his pads and pushed it more into the goal. It's a tough break, especially when we had so many chances.

But ... you didn't elect a senator from Pennsylvania to get out in Washington and sit on the sidelines. You wanted us to suit up with the pads on and take on the big issues that confront us not just in Washington but across the globe.

Cincinnati's D-linemen were great. They did a good job as far as holding us up and making us kick field goals. It was an excellent job, keeping their pads low, and just standing us up.

Hey, we've got pads on, ... Where are yours? It's not a day off.

I love fashion from the 1930s and '40s - shoulder pads, high waists, things with structure. That is classy for me. Andrea Riseborough from the Madonna movie 'W.E.' had an amazing wardrobe.

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

If he told me to put on the pads and go behind the plate, I'd never say no. I might get killed. But I'm the type of guy, this is my priority. This is my life. If the manager comes up to me and tells me to do something, I'm not going to say no.

If he puts on his shoulder pads and jersey, he's going to play, he'll be ready to roll.

I can run as fast as I do in my pads when I'm out of them. Hopefully, people will take that into account. They can look at my game film, and that's the biggest thing I have going for me.

I asked the guys, 'What should I do?' They told me to just score. He closed the pads pretty quick, but somehow it just squeezed in.

How many Enron employees had these pads sitting on their desks but didn't read the quote? Or if they did read it, didn't take it to heart?

He popped that draw pretty good. He's a good runner. He gets his pads low, and he's hard to tackle.

Where’s your sketch pad?” I asked. … “I gave that up,” Kay said. “I wasn’t very good, so I changed my major.” “To what?” “To pre-med, then psychology, then English lit, then history.” “I like a woman who knows what she wants.” Kay smiled. “So do I, but I don’t know any.

Mike Jack. Who's bad? Aint on my period, but I got a new pad.

The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it... !!

I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.

Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know

I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.

I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.

We like it to be realistic but not real, but I wear something I call the 'vag pad,' it's kind of a little triangular panty liner that you stick to you ...

Now on 'Bachelor Pad' it is true colors - no best foot forward anymore, everybody is really themselves.

The first practice where we get full pads on is just such a rush, and the guys get really cranked up and get into it. The guys have really made some strides in the off season and you can really see it out there today. Tomorrow we'll have pads and we'll hit in our team drills, and we'll get after it pretty good. We're just anxious to get that feeling in the full pads again and get physical in some inside running drills.

I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.

There's so much you can achieve with a launching pad like stand-up comedy. You can literally go from acting to hosting to being a personality.

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.

I was ten. I had noticed something was weird earlier in the day, but I knew from commercials that one's menstrual period was a blue liquid that you poured like laundry detergent onto maxi pads to test their absorbency. This wasn't blue, so...I ignored it for a few hours.

For any budding cricketers listening, do you have any superstitious routines before an innings, like putting one pad on first and then the other one?

I look cooking! Particularly pad thai.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad.

By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad

Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.

Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.