Neck Quotations | Page 2

Maybe I'm putting my neck on the line, but I think his is the best situation I've come into. I think (fired GM) Ed Wade certainly left behind a strong foundation.

The announcement of the criminal investigation . . . made what was a relatively comfortable (Liberal) lead into a neck and neck race.

That was a crucial score for us before the half. I kind of stuck my neck out there by going for two, but once we converted it put them in a position where they had to score twice.

I was really looking forward to playing in New Haven again, but unfortunately the pain on my neck hasn't completely gone away and I am not able to give my best on the court,

I would much rather have a couple of hundred grams of chicken in the afternoon than neck a shake. You're better off just keeping your diet relatively lean and eating simply.

My body is really telling me no. Playing for Team Canada would be a great honor. Not being able to do that, I knew I was done. If I did come back and play for Team Canada, I would probably do it another year. But I just feel like I can't do it. My neck is still achy.

We have our hand on the neck of the golden goose and we're squeezing hard.

You can go out there and get your neck broken and be paralyzed, ... It's a dangerous job we do.

You can feel the fans almost breathing down your neck when you're in the on-deck circle. And whatever they have to say, they will say it to you. They won't hold back.

White-collar workers in an economic crunch usually get it in the neck first. They are not the largest number, but they were the easiest to let go.

We do that every day. No matter how many kids come to practice, we have to do that every day to have a place to practice. It's a pain in the neck and the kids hate it, but that's what we have to do to have a place to practice. It's just the way it is.

We had an accident, drove off the road, ... hit something, went up and came down and flipped on its side. I've got some bumps and bruises on me, and there was some concern about neck injury. . . . Because of some of the symptoms I was experiencing, they transferred me up to Germany to have an MRI done. . . . I'll have some pain for a while, but I'm okay.

Usually, the limiting factor for roses is water. If the rose is not getting enough water, it will let you know. Bent neck is the common sign that water uptake is not adequate, and the upper stem bends over because it is the weakest part.

We needed someone to do what (Park) did. Really, I thought Chan Ho Park bowed his neck and made some great pitches.

We have kids with aching, fever and neck swelling. Their physicians say ... they have signs and symptoms of mumps.

Unless you've been around somebody that's had one of those serious neck injuries, you just don't know how devastating it can be.

We haven't decided on everything yet, but ... I just wanted a scene where I'm holding up my own head and cutting it off at the neck and there's just blood dripping down.

Today, we fail not because (of) our inability to do something, we fail today because of our unwillingness to tackle it in the first place. We are unwilling to take a chance, stick our neck out and go and do some of these things.

We're done with the tough stuff. We're fine tuning. We call this week the check-up from the neck up.

We didn't have a hit list of places not to go. However, I did talk to the team this morning about staying away from that area down there. ... This wasn't an isolated incident down in that neck of the woods.

We are neck deep in debt. We are left with no other option but to sell of our land.

What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that.

We performed well, but obviously Ohio State is a good team, they are tied for second with us (in the rankings). It was neck and neck; this meet they just performed better.

Who shot him? I asked.The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

Tyson is getting tremendous care, and he?s got goals set and he?s had some little victories. Whenever there are neck injuries, it?s slow.

We consider this approval an important advance in the treatment of head and neck cancer because it has been shown to help some patients live longer. Patients need as many effective treatment options as possible.

We're neck and neck. We're doing cutting-edge things in our district.

This time, we have cut off the past (way of doing things), we have got rid of the millstone around our neck and we are moving forwards.

To the extent that someone is there to keep dredging it up, it's going to be an albatross around her neck forever. Blagojevich is going to drag this out again. That's the real test. This is just a preview.

When you go high in the face, your intent is not to knock the ball out. Your intent is to seriously hurt somebody. You're talking about a potentially career-ending neck injury. I've run over a couple of catchers in my time, but I never went that high on one. You go for his glove.

When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'

We're thinking that the last episode's just going to be what we've always wanted it to be. Where Karen bites everyone on the neck and they die - and then she folds her arms over her chest, falls out the window, turns into a bat and flies away.

This was evidenced when I went to Andrews Air Force Base just hours after the operation and saw a safe Elian with his arms wrapped tightly around the neck of his beaming father emerge from the airplane on which he had flown from Miami to Washington,

We were there neck and neck with them. We got a few bad calls and they (Clovis West) ran off with it.

When I was really little, I wanted to be like Schroeder from the Peanuts comics. There was something about that Beethoven he'd play that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

with force and violence against her will by choking her with his hands around her neck while bending her over a chair in the hotel room.

Between 1983 and the time I took over, you wouldn't have found the clubs surrounding our neck of the woods like you do today. As they grew, so did the high school program. As long as the clubs and high schools are in agreement, it works. It boils down to what's best for the athlete.

Every time I look up, a ball is gone. My neck gets sore.

Every game we have a period of time when we slack. We grab teams by the neck and choke them until they can't breathe. Then we start relaxing and my blood pressure goes up.

Based on experience and word of mouth from last year's meeting, we are being swamped with corporations and physicians that want to be a part of the leading cosmetic training seminar that focuses solely on those physicians that are dermatologists, plastic surgeons, head and neck surgeons or ophthalmologists.

At this point, our main concern is to make sure Ashley is all right. She was moving her hands and feet and she was coherent when she left. (The paramedics) took a precautionary measure to eliminate any potential injury to her neck and upper back.

At the end of the day, no one asks a woman, 'Do you need a neck rub? Do you need a drink, honey?'

As I look at stuff like this I say to myself, it's kind of odd because you always think of coaching as an opportunity for your players to stand up their on that podium and put the net around their neck and celebrate winning championships. You never think of yourself as being in that situation. You're only as good as the people that you get to direct, and if you're fortunate enough to have the best people to direct then you're one of the lucky few. I think that's kind of what this is all about. So it's hard for me to put it into perspective from a personal perspective.

A neck God made for other use / Than strangling in a string.

Early on it was very tough for me, especially emotionally, ... There were a lot of tears. I wasn't sure if football was still the game that I should be playing after a neck injury.

I started playing music when I was really young. I didn't start off on guitar because I couldn't fit my hands around the neck and fret board. So I did the drums. And back then, all I did was hit things.

I start by moisturizing my face neck and chest with my own anti-aging SPF And IR Defense Sunblock called Recapture 360... Allow to sink in... Then I like Neutrogena's range of spray on sunblocks for body... then I use a foundation with SPF 30 or higher on my face to add yet another layer of protection to my face.

The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body, so a lot of people have phobias about those things. I can't deal with the undersides of wrists.

The swelling in my neck wouldn't go down after that.

Sometimes there could be movies that are neck and neck, and that could tilt the balance.

Scoring a goal is a euphoric feeling-and it's not so much the puck going in. It's the reaction from your teammates, the opponents and the fans-like, to shut up a crowd or to have your fans go berserk is the greatest feeling. It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Scientists have long been fascinated with robust australopithecines because they were so distinctive from the neck up. Now we have evidence that they were interesting from the knee down as well.

Put a rope around your neck and many will be happy to drag you along

People said, 'That's going to be around your neck for the rest of your life. I didn't have a problem with it.

People can see a picture of my body from the neck down and know who it is because of my beauty marks or whatever you call them, moles. I've always had them, and I've always loved them. Obviously you have to be careful with that; I get them checked regularly and make sure that they're healthy.

The music that can take them is the singing aloud the Name of God. And when they are too intoxicated to move and harm, catch them by the neck and pull out their fangs as the charmer does. Thereafter they can be your play things; you can handle them as you please.

Spencer had a stinger in his neck (for the last couple days) that he didn't tell me about until the second inning. But he battled like crazy.

So when they got in trouble, no one was willing to stick their neck out against the families.

The more man clings to religion, the more he believes. The more he believes, the less he knows. The less he knows, the more stupid he is. The more stupid, the easier he can be governed! The easier to govern, the better he may be exploited. The more exploited, the poorer he gets. The poorer he gets, the richer and mightier the domineering classes get, the more riches and power they amass, the heavier their yoke upon the neck of the people.

As Canadians, we don't usually pat ourselves on the back, blow our horn. And veterans are the same, they're very humble, very low-key. But when you hear the stories, sometimes the hair on the back of your neck stands up, because it's so amazing some of the things that they've done, the courage that they've shown.

A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

That photo Kevin is wearing around his neck is actually a photo of Britney as a baby,

That's what Rich Gannon 's all about. After he got hurt, he was still in the meetings, he was there. His neck was hurting but he was still a part of it and really wanted us to be successful. That pretty much says it all about him. He's one of the smartest quarterbacks I've ever been around. ... I don't think there's anyone better than Rich Gannon . He showed that week in and week out the way he played, too. He was a tremendous competitor.

You only have so many. You've got to bow your neck and do with what you've got. That's how you handle it.

This is such a tight battle with nine or 10 teams that are neck and neck. Coming home is big for us. We can't afford a letdown. A lot of times when you're on the road for a period of time, you come back and have a letdown for a game or two.

They try to hold scores down in the 50s. They're kind of a pain in the neck to play actually.

They had a chance to put their foot on our neck and that's what they did. They're a well-coached team and they did a great job.

They are running neck and neck. I'm not so sure early in the year if we don't use them both. We are usually not a two-quarterback team. None has really emerged as the clear-cut guy.

They're a pain in the neck to play against, I can tell you that,

They're his everything. They are his family. Not to mention that I think they saved his neck a countless number of times. He feels pretty bad about leaving them behind.

They're heavy. This is not something you want to just wear around your neck all day long.

They're neck and neck, those two guys. They want it right; they want it done their way, and you've got to do it.

There is this big, powerful bird, looking at you as if it expects you to kill it, but it doesn't have the strength to even try to get away. It laid its neck out on the ground and opened its beak, but it couldn't make a sound.

At halftime, Patrick was ready to play, ... His neck was bothering him a little bit. But he felt good about going in. And when they didn't make the switch, it could have gone either way, but there wasn't any real surprise.

It was created as a way for the average citizen to report what they saw in their neck of the woods during a potentially severe weather situation. Because, despite the fact that we have this million dollar Doppler radar and all this technology at our fingertips, it still comes down to basically eyes on the sky.

It was real tough. Marc played the last three games for us and played as good as he's played in his career for us. Pascal, unfortunately, got a bad neck injury and Marc had to come in. It's tough coming in against the Red Wings on a power play.

It was a very scary moment. I'd had some previous neck problems, so when I hit the goalpost, I felt a lot of pain and my (left) hand was partly numb.

It was an 0-2 fastball. I was trying to go up around his neck at the middle of the plate. I missed and left it chest high on the outer half.

It was a single gunshot wound to the head and neck by another.

I tried to do something as simple as unloading some wood from my truck and the next day I was in a neck brace. I'm not going to put my body through it. My time is up, unfortunately.

It's a head trauma and a neck trauma that has affected the cervical area of his spine. But he's not incapacitated. There's no reason for surgery.

It's more dangerous ... It's their element. They're quicker than you are in the water. You can't really see what's going on very quickly. I swim straight down. I've got to wrap my legs around his tail and grab him by the neck and hope he doesn't spin out of my hands.

It's not necessary to go down there and hang out down there, ... This wasn't an isolated incident in that neck of the woods.

For $60, I once bought a neck massage at a 'massage parlor' that advertised in 'The Washington Post.'

It's the sensation of an elephant sitting on the chest, crushing it, a cold sweat and pain running up the left side of the neck and down the left arm,

It's the sensation of an elephant sitting on the chest, crushing it, a coldsweat and pain running up the left side of the neck and down the left arm,

It masquerades itself as many different things - migraines, headaches, toothaches, sensitive teeth, neck aches, back aches and numbness and tingling in the fingers. Typically the patients we treat have been to many different doctors and no one could come up with proper diagnosis.

It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.

It's been a very up and down (few) years with emotions. To now be here and have a medal around our neck is just amazing.

It was neck and neck the whole way. Very exciting.

It was neck and neck all night long. We had leads of 24-21 and they would rally back. We just could not finish them off.

I've got a slight injury. I've got a stiff neck that is not helping my movement around the court. It's getting better and I'm confident it'll be right by Wednesday.

Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay on Top of Me Or I'll Die.' I didn't know what I was gonna do....

It was a combination of my painkillers (for a neck injury) and the fact that everybody was paying tribute to this incredible woman, this incredible actress, so I had to go to the physical aspect of kissing her (bottom), ... She loved it. She said it was the best she's had all year.

It's what we've all known. There are certainly good players on teams in this neck of the woods, so it's no surprise to me.

It's what I expected after getting hit in the neck with a ball. It's sore. It's stiff. ... If there's any way to make my next start, I'll make it.

It took her a while to pick up from that and she was probably only going to win by a neck but when she drifted back to the inside and found the rail she really put her mind on the job.

The turtle makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

The Vulcan Neck Pinch is not half as powerful as the Vulcan Groin Kick, but it's more politically correct