For decades, American companies, large and small, have been competing with one hand tied behind their backs thanks to our unfair, outdated tax code.
When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
I feel blessed. All the great running backs that have come through Ohio State - Archie Griffin, Eddie George, Beanie Wells - I'm happy that I was able to carry on that lineage this season.
If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress.
We must continue to honor America's commitment to keeping families together and not turn our backs on refugees and asylum seekers.
To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.
Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.
I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.
Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
In Detroit, the quarterbacks lift with all the linebackers and running backs and everybody else, so I'm doing that whole thing.
Baltimore, it's been an amazing place and experience. It's opened my eyes a little bit just of other organizations. I'm proud to be a part of this team, proud to be part of this group of men that really challenged each other, never pointed the fingers, never turned our backs on each other.
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.
I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.
I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.
I grew up in Zimbabwe in Southern Africa, and I moved to London when I was 17. And I started commuting and, actually, to go to college. And I used to really enjoy that part of my journey where the - it was actually a Tube train, but it was over ground, and it went right past the backs of people's houses, and I could actually see right in.
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.
To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.
I refuse to say things behind people's backs.
That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
I am not big on jewelry, but I do love hats as an accessory, specifically snap backs and beanies.
I like to play as a No. 10. I think I have more freedom offensively. For Belgium, we have full backs who run hard and create a lot of space, which is good, and I like to play there.
I love this city. There's Cleveland pride in it for me. Everyone has each other's backs here.
The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions that haven't traded as long, don't have bear claws up and down their backs like I do.
I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
We cannot afford to balance the budget on the backs of America's middle class and seniors and must do what it takes to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, including enabling the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs.
The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.
The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.
