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

“I can remember sport being at the centre of my family since I was a baby.”

“I remember calling my mum and saying: 'Mum, I've got some massive news for you! I'm taking over from Jo Whiley!' And she said: 'Oh that's nice. Well, me and Marian are just going to go to the garden centre.' My mum's more into Radio 4.”

“The majority of the time having first touches, when the ball comes to you, you're normally free so you've got time to control, but as a centre forward, you've got to be able to ride it. You've got to tense your body, but then have your foot be soft enough to control the ball, as well.”

“Comedians have this happy, charmed life, where they're the centre of their own universe and can do what they want, but when you have kids you get a perspective on how unimportant you are in this world.”

“I think modelling helped me. I was very shy and self-conscious when I went to college, and I think in some ways modelling exacerbates those things - because it's all about you being the centre of attention - but it also helped me travel.”

“The Congress wants to ensure that it has the number to stay in power at the Centre.”

“The fiscal crisis faced by the states especially in the light of the pandemic could lead to serious problems between the Centre and states going forward unless some Constitutional remedy is found.”

“The viewing centre was a place you go to watch football in Nigeria but you have to pay to watch football at a viewing centre, so if you don't have the means or the money to pay, you can't watch.”

“There is one thing that will never change in football. The centre forward is only as good as the people that are giving him the ball, and the people that are giving him the ball are only as good as the centre forward they are giving it to.”

“There is hardly any coordination between the Centre's Make In India and Start-Up India schemes and demonetization.”

“There are many Universal laws some of which need to be a centre of our attention if we wish living the life of a prosperous creator.”

“I started in my pro debut in a leisure centre in front of a couple of hundred people and I just worked hard for the last eight or nine years of my professional career.”

“I love England and so does my wife. The centre of London is unbelievable. We are really happy here.”

“I've stood in front of 500 extremely angry people in Waterford when we closed a call centre there. That's not fun, and the day you think it is fun is the day you shouldn't be doing it.”

“The chairman, Mehmet Dalman, he was brilliant for me. He helped me left, right and centre, he lives aboard now but he was my shoulder.”

“Those who are talking about withdrawing funds and grants to the states should understand that the Centre gets revenue from the states. They should realize that states like Kerala, get only a fraction in return, for every rupee that it pays to the Centre.”

“We need a system where some politicians - who quite rightly respond to the public mood - are prepared to stand up in favour of housebuilding, so I came up with a system that gives local people something they really want in return for building more homes. In our case in Hatfield, it's a new town centre.”

“Playing the first match on Centre Court is never easy.”

“Rudiger loves a physical battle as much as any centre back I've ever seen. He will take that as a compliment, I'm sure, because he is one of those rugged defenders who takes great pride in doing the dirty work.”

“I worked in a call centre for three-and-a-half years. I've tried to find something funny to include in my stand-up but I could never find anything. When the money's coming in it's amazing how it motivates you, but when it's a bit slow the mundanity of the job and the lack of respect people have for you phoning them gets to you.”

“To play full-back for Mikel Arteta, you've got to be a centre mid, a centre-back, a winger, a number 10.”

“I've played for England and at one stage I was the first-choice centre forward because I played in four or five qualifiers in a row.”

“As disabled people, we're used to being looked at, being stared at, being the centre of attention. Maybe my love of performing - of doing stand-up comedy, of taking to the stage - is about turning this on its head?”

“To go from being at the Performance Centre, essentially working in an empty warehouse, to go from that to the ThunderDome to actually being in front of a crowd at WrestleMania, is almost indescribable.”

“People say I'm attention seeking by coming off the Twitter, but that's not the case. If I wanted to attention seek I could drive my Lamborghini to the Trafford Centre in my underpants.”

“When I go out with my mates I'm never the centre of attention. Most of them, and they're probably right, keep telling me they're funnier than I am and I'm nicking their life.”

“My favourite position is in the midfield. I think I can play to my strengths there. I can communicate with every player. I'm more in the game, because as a right-back you have to stay on one side and you're not always in the game for 90 minutes. So I prefer the centre midfield position.”

“We didn't have a television at home. Even the people who did have televisions wouldn't have the right channels to show the games. So if you wanted to watch football you had to pay to watch the games at the local sports centre. You would get hundreds of people paying to watch, all at the same place.”

“I'm six-foot-five, so it's not easy to be like Ferrer with a very low centre of gravity.”

“I set up a centre for zari-zardozi artists near Paharganj.”

“Roy Hodgson destroyed me. He made me play in the centre of midfield.”

“People call me left of centre, they don't even know why left is called left and why right is called right. They have no clue. These are just you know jargons - created and marketed.”

“The older you get the more you realize that life is more than just basketball. Your vision of the world gets much wider, and you're not the centre of it no more. You understand that you're a moving part and that you have other responsibilities.”

“My dad is a showman, he likes to be in the centre of everything.”

“Everybody knows that there are quality players at centre back for Madrid and for me that's the day-to-day challenge. That's why it's important to be ready to take advantage of every chance that comes up.”

“It must have been horrible for my parents to see me go from public school to comprehensive to detention centre to borstal. I was busy ploughing my own furrow, but I must have been a terrible worry to them, and for that I am sorry.”

“We want Telangana state with Hyderabad as its capital. We demand the Centre to grant the statehood for the region.”

“Obviously I'm not prone to leak secrets left, right and centre.”

“My kids are the offspring of people who are doing reasonably well and live in the centre of London and the chances are they're going to turn out ghastly anyway. Who's to say they shouldn't have a walk-in wardrobe and possibly a stylist from the age of four?”

“In my 20s, I just had to be the centre of attention all the time. I was quite eccentric.”

“I used to worry about the lack of roles for women over 40. But suddenly, everyone has realised it's interesting to have a drama with a woman at the centre of it.”

“As a young player, I played up front, on the wing, in midfield, and when I started in the reserves at Standard Liege, I played centre back.”

“I don't have a problem with the Centre sanctioning funds to any state. However, when this is done for narrow political considerations, it damages the federal fabric mandated by the Constitution.”

“I'm a centre forward, and that is my preferred position. But I'll play on the wing or in midfield, wherever the manager wants me to play.”

“Since I was an adult, I've always lived in the centre of London - King's Cross, Bloomsbury - and never thought I'd leave.”

“There are not a lot of people in the world that get to say they get to walk through the gates of Wimbledon and play on Centre Court. It's pretty phenomenal, and we're very lucky to live this life that we do.”

“I can play in the centre or on the wing, behind one or two strikers, on the left or the right.”

“I don't care whether I play on the right or in the centre. All I want is for the coach to have faith in me.”

“I think we are slowly killing liberty, creativity, intelligent thinking; it's as if we are being led into a world that is like a huge shopping centre, with a sort of anaesthesia about everything except the choice of goods in front of us.”

“As a kid, I was always more interested in watching others than being the centre of attention. I've always felt that you can see a lot more and learn a lot more when you're standing on the edge.”

“I'm always drawn to female stories with female protagonists, and I particularly yearn for more older actresses to take centre stage in 2018.”

“Ever since I was a little kid, I loved being the centre of attention. I think it's part of the reason why I loved skating. You're literally in a fishbowl. You're in the middle of the ice by yourself, and the world is watching.”

“I watch 'Take Me Out' mainly for Paddy McGuinness. When we were younger, we worked together as lifeguards at the Bolton Leisure Centre.”

“It's nice to be the centre of attention among many women.”

“Pulmonarias need splitting every two or three years, as they rapidly develop into a doughnut with an empty centre that quickly gets filled with weeds.”

“I did a play in school. Then Dramsoc became the centre of my universe.”

“I was reading 'The Mystic Eye' by Sadhguru of Isha Yoga Centre. I couldn't keep the book down and finished it in two-and-half hours.”

“I'd grown up with Wimbledon, and so to play on Centre Court really was a dream come true.”

“Once Justin decided to go on the political scene, all the spotlights were on him. I think we've done pretty well finding a balance and a centre. It's a very scrutinized life.”

“I know my dad would have loved me to have played rugby. He was a No. 8. I started off playing centre and ended up playing at the back of the scrum, No. 8 as well, just picking it up and running with it.”

“Niang is very good in front of the goal, and he's also a quick learner. He is a versatile striker who can play both as a centre forward and as a second striker.”

“Unlike the Congress, the AAP stands for democratic rights of states, stands against the infringement of democratic rights by the Centre.”

“In 'Yours Truly,' I was the centre of the story; I was the protagonist. There was a lot more happening inside the mind of the character which was not projected loudly through dialogue and action... As a performer, playing such a nuanced, internal character is challenging.”

“In the past, due to faulty economic policies like freight equalisation, resource-rich states like Odisha have suffered from the discriminatory policies of the Centre.”

“My guide is the Modi government at the Centre. It's my inspiration. I will follow that.”

“I just want our government to make a world-class rehab centre in the country for sportspersons' recovery.”

“I will never go to the Centre. I have never been an aspirant for any post or for any role at the Centre.”

“I joined NDA because Andhra Pradesh needed the Centre's handholding.”

“I much prefer playing in the centre of the park; that's where I feel comfortable.”

“I am most comfortable in the centre but can play on the side, also.”

“I think that by playing centre midfield in the middle of the park, I'm doing something which comes naturally to me.”

“I was never a guy who liked to be in the centre of attention.”

“Normally in spy movies, the person that the hero deals with is at the centre of power, surrounded by video screens, and they're old and grizzled. I'm no stranger to that dynamic.”

“I just think I play better in the greater scenarios. I just get motivated. I like the big crowds on the centre courts.”

“London is a very important financial centre.”

“I have never been wired to be front and centre of spotlight and ready to dance.”

“All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.”

“I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It's where information is gathered, collated and addressed.”

“You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.”

“I don't really want to be the centre of attention.”

“I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit.”

“I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.”

“I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television; before long, there was this procession of people of all kinds walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound.”

“Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare.”

“The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.”

“If I go to a party I don't feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself quite often being placed in that position. Even when I was younger at school, I would be asked to make a speech. I don't remember putting up my hand and all that often but I'd just find myself there.”

“There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.”

“I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it.”

“We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.”

“We are now in the middle of the centre of the first half.”

“Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.”

“On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it that way, I have a different centre. I go through the stress and pressure, but I think I'm lucky because I come from a different source point.”

“When I was at MK Dons, I played all the games in centre midfield, so it's not like it's new to me.”

“We've got to take confrontation out of the centre of politics. With fighting, no one wins; with dialogue, everyone wins.”

“In the past, the U.S. was the centre of the world, where everything was happening. I think my stories have always sought to question this, maybe even criticise it.”

“Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.”

“What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master.”

“I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.”

“There is no denying or hiding the fact that over the years I moved from well on the right of the Conservative Party, much much more to its left, and therefore to the centre of the poltical spectrum.”

“I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn't the centre of my life.”