Throws Quotes

The quarterback is the most vulnerable one on the field. He’s in an awkward position a lot of times when he throws the ball. So he does have to be protected. You lose a quarterback, you’re in trouble. I don’t know if they can make it too safe. I think health becomes an issue.

I’m not paying attention to Kevin Durant. I don’t have any recollection of watching him play. I can’t remember how he shoots free throws.

I think everyone would like to have that one guy who gets triple-teamed, and he throws it to an open guy, but there aren’t many of those guys around.

The best actors just stay in the moment,and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what’s going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don’t know if you’re going to survive.

It is so easy to be pleasant and charming and positive when life is going swimmingly well. You are winning. You are healthy. You are happy. But what happens when life throws darts at you?

Life throws surprises, sorrows, sadness, and hardship, and I think that writing has actually grounded me. It kept me grounded when everything else was falling apart.

I’m not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I’m a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn’t working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.

My job was to turn the company around and to give Time Warner a profitable Web business to spin off and a profitable access business that still throws off a tremendous amount of cash. I can check both of those boxes. I am done, and I feel good about what we’ve accomplished.

I think it’s getting proven I’ve got good mechanics; I make my free throws. I handle the ball, too. I can do a lot of things I didn’t do in college.

If someone throws you a good slider, you’re not going to hit it. You’ve got to always hunt those ones that kind of pop up or hang thigh-high or up.

We don’t want to give up free throws. Those are mistakes.

A random rumor that did a rounds about me was that I am an actor who throws tantrums on the sets and likes to be treated like a King. Which is false.

I’ve always heard that the reason you fall is to get back up and keep going. So when that happens, or life throws you bad breaks or curves or deals you the wrong hand, all I’ve ever known is to keep going.

We’re not one of those bands that throws the names of all their songs in a hat and pulls them out right before they go on stage.

If someone throws you in a pool and you can’t swim, you’re going to struggle.

When I’m wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing – she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.

There are spots that I have to hit. Throws I can’t miss.

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

I love the Coen brothers. They’re so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. ‘A Serious Man’ was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

I try not to feel pressure, because I feel like it kind of throws you off. I always try to focus on myself. But it does kind of creep into the back of my mind.

One of the most important things you need when you’re doing big shows, like Rock in Rio, is consistency, and that starts with the sound in your ears. If it isn’t just right, it throws you off and makes it hard to focus on the music and the performance.

One of the things I don’t like about film is its incredible immersive quality. It’s kind of bullying – it’s very big, it’s very flashy, it’s got a lot of weight and it throws it around almost to the detriment of the rest of our culture.

But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I’ve come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.

Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

If you think ‘Game of Thrones’ throws around some erroneous, unnecessary nudity, wait til you see ‘Silicon Valley.’

After all, what is cinema? It is an interaction, a discussion that throws up questions and provides some solutions. The solutions might look simple, impractical or too fictionalised. But one must realise that viewers empathise with certain characters because they strike a chord with the viewers’ needs and frame of mind.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it’s sad and it’s sick… and it’s profitable.

If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault – and I must tread carefully here – if she has a fault, this gem in the diadem of womanhood is a hoarder. She never throws anything out. Which may explain the longevity of our marriage.

We need to let the referee’s sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says ‘knockdowns.’ Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it’s legal, we’ll make excuses for them.

We need a national service that throws us all together, the urban with the rural, the Fox News types with the MSNBC crowd. That way, Americans can get to know Americans and learn – as previous generations did – that we are all Americans.

If you were to be put off by every little problem life throws at you, you’d get nowt done.

Los Angeles traffic is just the worst thing in the world. It throws off timing so much. However, it’s always warm and sunny. New Jersey has absolutely terrible weather, but the environment is really homey and chill.

I’ve been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it’s good music for ADD because it just throws you in different directions all the time. I really like Kim Gordon’s voice and Thurston Moore’s voice, and I like the guitars going off on tangents.

If they’re going to foul me, I’m going to step to the line and make some free throws.

I guess the passion I have for cinema is as strong as the one that I have for music. And I’ve always tried to be a character in the film, not just a composer that throws his music to the film. That’s the main element that connects me with directors.

Adding throws or blankets that have great texture over the back of a sofa adds some interesting personality really quickly and will visually change the room.

It’s always a danger when you’ve got a great quarterback that throws the ball well, that scrambles well. You may push him into his asset. You may force him to do what he does best. So you’ve got to be able to throw curveballs and stop the pass as much as stop the run.

I feel like I have a rare skill-set with my quickness and my size. It kind of throws people off. It’s deceptive with my speed.

Learn to expect less from life and more from yourself. Accept the changes that life throws at you. Remember, your destiny is pretty much in your hands. So, as your mom may have told you, keep them clean.

Israel is incredible, it throws the best party ever and people should come.

When life throws not-so-serious curveballs, sometimes you need to embrace it, and laugh it off with the support of your friends, and let’s be honest, pancakes always make everything better.

Too often, I’ve seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom – before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.

I am aware of what my opponent Avila brings and the experience he has. He’s tough, throws hard shots and is a good counterpuncher.

Sometimes life throws you a shortcut. You either take it, or you continue the way you were going.

When someone tells you a fighter’s injured and they tell you to go after an injury, it really throws you off.

Anyone that I’ve ever worked with, it’s not like I just meet you or someone throws us together for the sole purpose of coming up with a song that’s gonna be a hit. I have to have some sort of relationship, or we had to have interacted on some other sort of level and that’s when it feels most natural.

What life throws at you – you just have to learn how to hit it, which is a baseball metaphor. The ball’s outside, you hit to the right. You don’t let them go by.

When I was younger, I was a bit awkward to work for, hence why I had about five clubs in two years. I was a bit petulant, shall we say. But you’re never too old to keep learning because every day in management, something is thrown at you which throws you a curveball.

The huge advantage of boarding school is that it throws you into the social fire. Every social interaction I’ve had since then has been a million times easier. Literally, ever since then, it’s all been child’s play.

I pride myself on being able to make all the throws.

Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.

The Disney archives, it’s 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I’m a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.

When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain’t going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about… I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I’m wrong, then show me.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can’t be adding to them yourself by saying you can only write in one specific place. I’m in New York half the time and Texas half the time, and I work wherever – in my computer bag I have some foam ear plugs that I can put in.

In wrestling, you’ve got to be an athlete. You can’t just be a body builder; you can’t just be this big strong guy who picks people up and throws them around. For longevity in the business, you got to keep your body fit and together.

We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we’ll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

I don’t just want to be that guy who throws hard.

I’ve always been somebody who sort of throws himself, you could say, obsessively into whatever thing I’m passionate about.

Jimmy Iovine, the head of Interscope Records, always throws this amazing post-Grammy party. It’s a small gathering, so if you’re invited, it’s really cool.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Whatever life throws at me I’ll take it and be grateful for it as well.

I grew up dreaming about being an Olympic basketball player: Doug Collins getting smashed into the stanchion, making two free throws. Phil Ford and Mike O’Koren in 1976.

My biological dad was Armenian. My last name is Lopez, and I have a darker complexion, which throws people for a loop. My mother’s first husband is Mexican. That’s where I got Lopez.

You’ve got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

Aaron Rodgers, he throws that back-shoulder throw so well.

The way Michael Vick uses his legs and is able to throw out of the pocket really changes games. The way that Aaron Rodgers is able to sit in the pocket and make throws that not a lot of people can make – I hope I can be half what those guys are and emulate it into my game.

Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher’s name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

Life throws you curveballs and there are things that happen – you don’t understand why they happened at the time. But then you step back and understand you’re a better fighter and competitor because of the things that happened.

Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you.

Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.

They just love the Irish accent in the States. But I just talk really fast because I’m from Cork. It’s my speed that really throws them, especially when I get nervous. Doing interviews there is really hard because you can’t hear a word I’m saying!

I think life throws enough curveballs that you shouldn’t make such a big deal out of everything.

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.

Not being secure affects us as humans. It throws us off our balance. It puts us in disarray.

The main thing is being consistent, being efficient and getting good looks, moving the ball when you can and knocking down my free throws.

Generally in the Little League you’re up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn’t that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk.

There are simple, small things you can do that really will impact the space. Things like changing out your curtain panels to something that adds a fresh new feel. Or maybe a smart pattern. Also swapping out an area rug, throws and pillows can be done in no time, and really have a dramatic effect.

Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it’s either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.

If you’re a kid in Southern California, somebody – whether it’s you or your parents – somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.

There’s no debate about the greenhouse effect, just like there’s no debate about gravity. If someone throws a piano off the roof, I don’t care what Sarah Palin tells you, get out of the way because it’s coming down on your head.

In this filmy world, you will have success today but may not have it tomorrow. But if you are prepared to face the challenge it throws, that’s when you should venture in this industry. I was ready for this and had all sorts of support from my parents.

I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don’t know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don’t go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.

The fundamentals of your business are like free throws: emphasize and practice them to perfection.

But if applause throws off your timing, then you’re not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.

I am the type of person who just gets on with whatever life throws at you. I have a ‘do first, worry later’ kind of attitude.

It comes down to the difference between what you were planning to do and what life throws at you and you have to end up doing. The one who knows how to improvise is the one who comes out ahead.

You may score 50 points and grab 40 rebounds and have 30 assists, but if I don’t make the free throws at the end of the game, and we lose, does that make you not a champion?

I don’t want to build a reputation for just being able to take long throws.

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

Everything is mental, but if you just remember to stay with your same technique, you will be fine. If you stay confident, make sure you are doing the same thing over and over; the free throws will fall.

Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.

We were having a sleepover when I was eight or nine, and we all got to stay up late and watch the original ‘Frankenstein.’ It was uncensored, so as a child, I saw the scene where he throws the little girl into the lake, and that freaked me out. Though not as much as when he hangs the hunchback.

Working with Timbaland, he gives me insight; he throws me different ways to approach the beat, and those extra tips go a long way. I know that he’s worked with some of the greats, so it’s just motivation. I feel inspired when we’re in the booth together.

One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It’s deliberate chaos.

If my mind’s not trying to fix something or create something, I don’t know what to do. It just throws me off.

I’d gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

A hot bath, time with a book, or five minutes of meditation helps tremendously with recharging and grounding us so we are more equipped to deal with everything life throws our way.

Everybody knows the struggles I went through coming into my career with the free throws and how much work I put into it, how many people made fun of me for not being able to stay in games, this and that.

I learn new things every day, but I’ve learned that no matter what life throws at you, you take it day by day.

If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it’s seen as anti-Establishment.

There’s always instances where you want those throws back, but the worst part about it is that I can’t redo it.

The story of gluten as it relates to the brain throws a wide net, so much more encompassing than the inflammation of a small section of the small intestine that characterizes celiac disease.

There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.

After a time, all children have to be on their own. Though as parents you always want to cushion them, however, when life throws new challenges, they have to take their own calls.

And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we talk about gasoline prices. That throws budgets into a real problem when you have budgeted really tight.

There are two kinds of directors: There’s the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there’s the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.

But the thing about me is when life throws me things, I always try to make the best of it.

I make a lot of throws off-balance and a lot of throws just using my arm.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and… It’s not like that.

On my back, I have the cross and angel wings: rise above it, no matter what life throws at you. And also, you know, Jesus rose from the grave.

My mother-in-law’s so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

I do have a tendency to talk a lot at the poker table, which throws people off because they spend a lot of time trying to read me. But I talk a lot when I have a good hand and when I have a bad hand, too. Sometimes it annoys people so much they can’t wait to get out of the tournament. And that can only be good for me.

Cain Velasquez attacks more, and throws more punches and kicks. It’s hard to fight against him. He’s very athletic, you can see that from his fights with ‘Cigano,’ but Werdum trains hard and is a great fighter.

I am not someone who throws around the word ‘self-esteem.’ It is a fictional description.

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it’s empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

Now, the people that helped get Obama elected, who think Israel is a good idea, need to wake up and tell him they’re our friends, let’s preserve them. And then it would happen. Because that’s the only kind of thing he responds to. But he throws our friends under the bus and rewards our enemies.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

I think against Cub I get it done. He comes in, he’s very open, he throws wild shots, and he has never, I promise you, in his life felt power that I have.

I don’t have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.

I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.

When I’m out there, you just have to react. That’s why you work on those throws. When you’re in the moment, you can’t think to yourself, ‘How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?’

When someone throws an alley-oop and you finish, everyone’s happy, the one who makes the pass and the one with the dunks. It’s a great play.

It doesn’t matter what the scoreboard says. I’m always having fun, talking to other guys. They even come to first base and ask me about hitting. I try to help them out as much as I can in the 30 seconds before the pitcher throws the next pitch. That’s me. I don’t think I will ever change that.