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Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life. – Jackie Robinson	added by Normando 1 year ago
They’re suffering in Ukraine and in so many different parts of the world, grieving about what they lost yesterday, holding their breath about what they could lose today, and what tomorrow can bring. At a time like this, the law cannot be a spectator. – Karim Khan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I don't know what to say. I'm not sure how I bullied him. He was the one hitting balls at me, he was the one that hit a spectator, he was the one that smacked it out of the stadium, i did nothing towards Stefanos Tsitsipas today that was disrespectful. I was not drilling Stefanos Tsitsipas with balls. To come in here and say I bullied him, that's just soft. We're not cut from the same cloth. I go up against guys who are true competitors. – Nick Kyrgios	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Race fans are, and always will be, the lifeblood of NASCAR. Few knew this better than Bruton Smith, bruton built his race tracks employing a simple philosophy; give face fans memories they will cherish for a lifetime. In doing do, Bruton helped grow NASCAR's popularity as the preeminent spectator sport. – Jim France	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I was watching everything as a spectator. – Roxanne Mathai	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We don't give our children matches to play with nor do we give them candles, so you really shouldn't give children fireworks, let the adults handle the fireworks and let the children be the spectator. – Julie Heckman	Found on CNN 3 years ago
BaFin was a spectator for far too long and instead accused FT journalists of market manipulation, now quite a few small investors are suffering. BaFin has to change radically its approach to regulation. – Fabio De Masi	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Democracy is not a spectator sport -- it requires the active participation of all its citizens, california is a national leader on expanding voting rights to its citizens. Those rights come with a responsibility by registered voters to cast their ballot and make sure that their voice is heard by their government. This is not a time to be complacent at the ballot box. – Marc Levine	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I was pretty much a spectator after that. – Tuukka Rask	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Horseracing is the second biggest spectator sport in Britain and we want to ensure a new generation of fans are constantly discovering the drama and excitement of its stories. – Jockey Club	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
She loves to hit the baseball, my husband will throw a whiffle ball for her and she likes to hit with the plastic bat. I could never do it, for those things, I’m just a spectator. – Donna Lowich	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
When we're thinking of the Boston Marathon, that's a primary goal, we could create a 20-yard buffer between the street and the nearest spectator, but it would just so fundamentally change the char of the day, it would be short-sighted. – Kurt Schwartz	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Dialect came to my aid, it is closer to feelings, to emotions, a spectator should be able to be carried along even if they don't understand every letter. – Lo Cascio	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Standing there over my second shot at 18 on that Sunday I didn't think I was standing in a sand trap, there was just so much spectator rubbish in that bunker like candy wrappers, a Gatorade bottle, beer cans and all kinds of stuff including plenty of foot prints. – Dustin Johnson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
He pretended to be a spectator but he had murder in his heart. – William Weinreb	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I asked him a couple of times, 'Hey, are you gonna shoot?' this isn't a spectator sport. It's a shooting sport. You shoot. And that's what got all, you know, wired up. – Eddie Ray Routh	Found on CNN 9 years ago
If we keep living in our silos, we will never be able to break down barriers and stereotypes, social justice is not a spectator sport, so if we don't work for it, nothing will change. – Nazma Khan	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by. – Lou Holtz	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. – Marcel Duchamp	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed. – Plato	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

– Jackie Robinson

added by Normando
1 year ago

They’re suffering in Ukraine and in so many different parts of the world, grieving about what they lost yesterday, holding their breath about what they could lose today, and what tomorrow can bring. At a time like this, the law cannot be a spectator.

– Karim Khan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I don't know what to say. I'm not sure how I bullied him. He was the one hitting balls at me, he was the one that hit a spectator, he was the one that smacked it out of the stadium, i did nothing towards Stefanos Tsitsipas today that was disrespectful. I was not drilling Stefanos Tsitsipas with balls. To come in here and say I bullied him, that's just soft. We're not cut from the same cloth. I go up against guys who are true competitors.

– Nick Kyrgios

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Race fans are, and always will be, the lifeblood of NASCAR. Few knew this better than Bruton Smith, bruton built his race tracks employing a simple philosophy; give face fans memories they will cherish for a lifetime. In doing do, Bruton helped grow NASCAR's popularity as the preeminent spectator sport.

– Jim France

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I was watching everything as a spectator.

– Roxanne Mathai

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We don't give our children matches to play with nor do we give them candles, so you really shouldn't give children fireworks, let the adults handle the fireworks and let the children be the spectator.

– Julie Heckman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

BaFin was a spectator for far too long and instead accused FT journalists of market manipulation, now quite a few small investors are suffering. BaFin has to change radically its approach to regulation.

– Fabio De Masi

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Democracy is not a spectator sport -- it requires the active participation of all its citizens, california is a national leader on expanding voting rights to its citizens. Those rights come with a responsibility by registered voters to cast their ballot and make sure that their voice is heard by their government. This is not a time to be complacent at the ballot box.

– Marc Levine

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I was pretty much a spectator after that.

– Tuukka Rask

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Horseracing is the second biggest spectator sport in Britain and we want to ensure a new generation of fans are constantly discovering the drama and excitement of its stories.

– Jockey Club

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

She loves to hit the baseball, my husband will throw a whiffle ball for her and she likes to hit with the plastic bat. I could never do it, for those things, I’m just a spectator.

– Donna Lowich

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

When we're thinking of the Boston Marathon, that's a primary goal, we could create a 20-yard buffer between the street and the nearest spectator, but it would just so fundamentally change the char of the day, it would be short-sighted.

– Kurt Schwartz

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Dialect came to my aid, it is closer to feelings, to emotions, a spectator should be able to be carried along even if they don't understand every letter.

– Lo Cascio

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Standing there over my second shot at 18 on that Sunday I didn't think I was standing in a sand trap, there was just so much spectator rubbish in that bunker like candy wrappers, a Gatorade bottle, beer cans and all kinds of stuff including plenty of foot prints.

– Dustin Johnson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He pretended to be a spectator but he had murder in his heart.

– William Weinreb

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I asked him a couple of times, 'Hey, are you gonna shoot?' this isn't a spectator sport. It's a shooting sport. You shoot. And that's what got all, you know, wired up.

– Eddie Ray Routh

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If we keep living in our silos, we will never be able to break down barriers and stereotypes, social justice is not a spectator sport, so if we don't work for it, nothing will change.

– Nazma Khan

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

– Lou Holtz

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

– Marcel Duchamp

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

– Johann von Goethe

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

– Plato

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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