Quotes about fumbling (14 Quotes)


    I don't know. I can answer that maybe when I get looking at the tape and see if his reads and stuff were right. But he was one of many at the beginning of the game who weren't playing well. Dropping passes and fumbling the ball, that type of thing. Guys get so many opportunities to prove themselves.

    We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

    When you're fumbling five, six, seven times, it's not good. You can't give the ball over. Whitehall only came close to scoring twice and both times it was on fumbles.

    He was trying to make a play. If he had fallen down on the ground, we're in the red zone. But we tried to press too much and make too many things happen. We end up fumbling the ball and you can't do that.



    Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.

    It's no secret that North Side's much better, but us fumbling the ball so many times was very frustrating. When it's humid and slick like it is tonight, it's easy to see why fumbles happen. But still, I thought we had that problem fixed.

    Ronnie did a nice job in the game. I'm sure nobody feels worse about fumbling the ball in the situation at the end of the game than he does and that's something that we'll have to learn and grow from.

    Never assume you have everything pegged. Never tweak that last duck, and pat yourself on the back, and take everything else for granted. Because that's when god rips the mike out of your hand and says, out of nowhere, you might not come back from Dead Man's Curve. Say what That's when you wake up in darkness, fumbling for the light switch.

    We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?



    I just had contain, so I was really coming up to stop Mike Hicks. I think they were trying a trick play because Mike Hicks was a quarterback in high school. I think he was going to throw it. When I came up, he was fumbling the ball, and when I made contact with him, I had the ball in my hand, so I just turned around with it and ran.




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