Best Blocking Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I feel like I've done a pretty good job of blocking out everything that's going on around me when I need to, and I've stayed in the moment and focused on the tennis.”

“I had to make my niche. It came on the defensive end - blocking shots, playing defense, guarding my man. I had to do a lot of work, so things panned out. I had to trust the process.”

“My strengths are just to be able to, I would just say, get positive yards, be able to execute a play whatever my job is on that play. Being able to execute a play well, whether it's blocking, running the ball or catching the ball.”

“Orange County's Board of Supervisors did the right thing by blocking Obamacare implementation in the County for as long as they could.”

“I want to be better, in my route running, blocking - everything.”

“I'm utilized for playing defense, blocking shots and getting rebounds.”

“If I'm blocking shots or changing shots or even preventing players from taking shots, I'm helping the team and we are likely to win when our defense is playing well.”

“I do extensive storyboards so people can get a sense of what we're doing, and what the attitude and tone is. I work a lot with the actors. I like to go to sets or locations with them before shooting so that they know what they'll be doing on the day. I have found actors really do like to know about blocking, etc., before the shoot day comes.”

“Running, catching, blocking, third-down guy. There's nothing that you can ask me to do that I won't want to do or that I can't do.”

“Sometimes, it's the little plays that I make that can change the outcome of the game - whether it's blocking a shot or blitzing a guard or getting an offensive rebound.”

“I've always loved blocking shots.”

“I do like to play and pass the ball. But first and foremost I see myself as a defender: blocking, tackling, heading.”

“I make plays in the passing game, blocking, doing everything.”

“Kids are kids. They still need handholding. No matter how trained they are, they need to be told what to do. They need to learn lines and understand blocking. You can't just say, 'I want you to walk from here to there and deliver your line.'”

“I like to score when I can, but if I can't do that, I like to do the other things - defense, blocking, rebounding.”

“There is no reason why any legitimate caller should be spoofing an unassigned or invalid number. And providers shouldn't be sued for doing the right thing by blocking illegitimate spoofing.”

“Antonio Gates is spectacular. But he's not a blocking tight end.”

“Whatever's asked of me, I'm just going to go out there and perform my routes and how I've been coached all week, perform in the running game, pass blocking, run blocking, whatever it is.”

“We've always had the sensibility that you work on the set, and you structure it, much like a play, where once you've got the lines down and blocking right, you freeze it, and then you go out and do what you're doing night after night. You want to structure something that has form and that builds the right dynamic from start to finish.”

“I do support 'sanctuary cities,' and I would be a firm, non-negotiable 'no' vote on any deliberations that include the possibility of blocking funding for them.”

“I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.”

“X' had a more avant garde approach to the way it was put together, and the camera direction was more modern and was more like effective in the sense that it was trying to tell you the story by the camera moving and the camera showing you certain things. And 'Pearl' was more of, like, within the blocking, we'll tell you everything.”

“Just blocking noise out and doing something you love and enjoying it and having fun with it. It's kind of made my mentality in me staying calmer much better.”

“I enjoy blocking shots. It's kind of a rush.”

“Your run blocking looks pretty similar to what the pass blocking looks like when you're going with the play-action pass. So you really do have an opportunity to get really good at it quickly.”

“Will it make the game safer for people by moving the extra point back to a 43-yarder? If anything, players are going to rush harder because they're thinking, 'That far of a field goal-type try, we have to go after blocking it more.'”

“It's no surprise that whether by blocking visas or building walls, there are parts of the country desperate to hang on to a vision of the United States that is rapidly disappearing from their TV screens as well as their neighborhoods.”

“I've been thinking about my life, my loss of friends, relationships, opportunities, money, my values. There's also the loss of relationship with my son and my daughter, who I've only met once. All that loss - I just got so good at blocking it out.”

“Let trusts get on and recruit internationally and stopping blocking medics from coming here to care for our sick.”

“I operate a pretty strict muting and blocking policy on Twitter.”

“Rehearsing is more about blocking in the case of movies, I think, and blocking, of course, is very important to the beauty of a scene.”

“Usually, you have one blocking, one catching tight end.”

“I like to rehearse before blocking.”

“Until that moment comes when the ball comes to me every time, I have to find a way to be effective with offensive rebounds, play hard defense, blocking shots.”

“I'm a guy that can play three downs. You don't have to take me off the field. I value blocking.”

“Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America's most treasured landscapes.”

“I grew up in Georgia, and I started acting in plays when I was like eight years old, and I always memorized everyone's parts, not just my own, and I always memorized everyone's blocking. Whenever anyone wasn't there, I would always jump in. I was very hands-on.”

“Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing technologies.”

“I want the young guys to say, 'How old is this guy that's blocking me every play?'”

“If they want to feature me and let me run routes, I'm fine with that. If I'm coming in and blocking, I'm cool with that. If it's just special teams, I'm cool with that. I'm preparing like I'm ready to do all three of those things, and I'm just going to see what happens.”

“The miasma of fear that is created through voter suppression is as much about terrifying people about trying to vote as it is about actually blocking their ability to do so.”

“I'm unable to do the thing that Broadway actors do in plays, sometimes for years. The same exact blocking, the same exact lines. I'm a little bit uncomfortable with that. Every night I'm looking for ways to try something else.”

“When you're blocking someone, or when you're running, it's all about putting force into the ground, and that's the epitome of the back squat.”

“We don't have time as a nation to spend all of what we do blocking.”

“If Trump is allowed to get away with obstructing Congress by blocking testimony and refusing to turn over all documents in impeachment proceedings, we can look forward to future Republican and Democratic presidents doing the same thing.”

“Hitting the sled is something a lineman can do to get ready for the season. A running back can't practice, carrying the ball by himself but a lineman can work on his blocking.”

“As a kid, I always wanted to be like Spielberg and to make wonderful movies. Even when I was making 'Indiana Jones,' I was looking at how he would come up with these amazing shots and how he would choreograph the blocking and all that. So I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.”

“Make a list of all the people in your life, and rate them in terms of energy in, energy out. Is there anyone in your life right now who is blocking your love quest?”

“For me, rehearsal is only about blocking and pacing; it's not about performance.”

“I don't set out to make movies about famous people, though I guess I have. I think what I set out to do is to try to understand things that we don't understand. Or to find out what is blocking us from understanding things we should understand.”

“We are importing Russian natural gas which is not produced in an environmentally conscious manner. If the states that are blocking the pipelines were truly concerned about the environment, they would look to where the natural gas would be coming from.”

“I came into the NBA as a second-round pick, No. 39. I was on a team with a bunch of lottery picks. I didn't have an opportunity to really show what I could do on the offensive end, so I had to find my niche. It came on the defensive end, blocking shots and guarding my man.”

“I don't storyboard, and I don't really shot list. I let the shots be determined by how the actors and I figure out the blocking in a scene, and then from there, we cover it.”

“The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative.”

“If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.”

“They tried to put me at tight end once, but I would end up just blocking people when they were actually trying to throw the ball to me. I was probably in middle school. It just didn't stick. Except on running plays.”

“In my judgment, the JCPOA for whatever its limitations, was succeeding on its own terms in blocking Iran's pathways to producing fissile material for a nuclear weapon on short order.”

“When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.”

“I think the Internet was invented specifically to stop people finishing their books. And it does quite a good job. I don't have blocking software, though I could easily imagine needing it. I just don't do that stuff until I've got the words done for the day.”

“Watching routes and studying routes, you can learn stuff that way or you can learn blocking schemes on blitzes. You never know what you can learn just sitting back from behind and watching.”

“We're defenseless, I know we play defense, but we're defenseless when we're not looking at the guy who's blocking us or when the guy's come out and cut out our knees from underneath us.”

“People want subways, folks... subways, subways. They don't want these damn streetcars blocking up our city!”

“I think it is extremely inappropriate for people to be blocking traffic, to be harassing people going about their everyday business and violating the law. I do not support that kind of behavior.”

“When I'm out there flying around, blocking shots, dunking the ball, grabbing rebounds it brings everybody's spirits up and gets them going.”

“The era of special interests blocking progress on every issue from access to health care to the cost of prescription drugs to tackling climate change has to end.”

“You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.”

“With Akismet there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective? It seemed more people would be helped by blocking spam.”

“Blocking a shot can really demoralize a person and defer them from coming to the rim the rest of the game. So being able to do that and change the landscape of the game by one play is pretty amazing.”

“Cheer the players. They are ones getting it done. They are ones blocking shots, making saves and scoring goals.”

“I think all the actors I've worked with knew that I was an actor. Like, I get into the dirt with my actors and we figure out the rhythm of the scene and how it needs to sound and what the blocking is, the way you would with another actor.”

“It's useful to know how to go around domain blocking.”

“If you are trying to favor the unions by having more rigid labor market and keeping wages very high, you could be blocking people from getting new jobs.”

“The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social media censors from blocking the movie's title from searches on the country's most popular Twitter-like microblogging service, Weibo.”

“I really enjoy blocking and staging. I think most of visual storytelling is camera placement and how to stage action around the camera.”

“I kind of like to think I can do everything decently well. It's just putting me in position to be a playmaker, blocking, special teams, no matter what it may be. Whenever I go out there, I'm going to do my best.”

“Things never change in football, it's still blocking and tackling and execution, and having an experienced quarterback who is patient enough to take what the defense gives him.”

“I've been blocking people and unfriending people for a long time, and it doesn't take much if I feel like you've slighted me at all.”

“I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.”

“I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible.”

“I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.”

“I'm not out there to be blocking shots or fighting guys. I'm out there to produce offensively.”

“One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of people blocking the road. I thought, 'Oh, great, now I'm stuck!' but then I suddenly realized that it was a breast cancer walk.”

“Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.”

“Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.”

“With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.”

“I could score some points, but I take more satisfaction in blocking shots, rebounding and getting my teammates open shots.”

“There's so much to returning a kick. It's more than just left, right or middle. You've got to know who's blocking who and what the front line is doing. Everybody has to be on the same page.”

“I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.”

“First thing, and it's really one of my favorite things, is the protection part. Who everybody is blocking and where the pressure is coming from. Because if we can't get the ball off, it doesn't matter what you're doing out here.”

“I just enjoy getting rebounds, getting putbacks, blocking shots and setting good screens. That's what I feel good about.”

“You see receivers getting open, the O-line blocking, and when that's happening, playing quarterback is a lot of fun, man. You get to sit back, and deliver the football, and let your guys make plays.”

“I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.”

“And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground.”

“When you're shooting a TV show, sometimes it's more about, like, the blocking: it's usually - it's really fast. 'Walk here, walk here, walk and talk here.'”

“I'm very good at blocking out noise.”

“The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.”

“Blocking is part physicality and part physics. You have to be the lower man and get your hands inside to control your opponent's mass. If you have short footwork, tight hands and if you play low, you can hold your own.”

“In 1999, my team discovered that the star Upsilon Andromedae was circled by three gas-giant planets - the first distant multiplanet system ever found. That same year, other researchers observed the first 'transit' of an exoplanet - a planet blocking out a small fraction of the starlight as it passes in front of the star.”

“In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.”

“If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.”