Playing Fields Quotes:

If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.

- Paul Vallas

topic: Kids, Childhood, Fields, Playing Fields

It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.

- Paula Radcliffe

topic: Sports, Cheating, Work, Level Playing Field, Training Hard

You need an immense amount of luck and an immense amount of perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale. You work as hard as you can for ten years so you finally have a chance to be lucky - It's really rare that somebody gets lucky. It's usually a combination of a lot of talent, a lot of hard work. People that get lucky also tend to be really great looking.

- Chris Gethard

source: Source: www.flickreel.com

topic: Perseverance, Hard Work, People, Playing Fields

Society always needs a level playing field. In order to do that, you have to have opportunity, and providing that opportunity begins with 'how do we bridge that gap,' that so-called Digital Divide? How can we get internet into every home possible?

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

source: Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

topic: Home, Opportunity, Bridges, Digital Divide, Level Playing Field

Net neutrality is the principle that the service providers who control or access, who own the pipes, should not favor some content over another. It's, you know, an even playing field for stuff on the Internet, and, you know, I think it's very important to the medium that it have a rough quality among contents. Everyone has their shot.

- Tim Wu

source: "How Free Web Content Traps People In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wncw.org. October 17, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Important, Quality, Service Providers, Playing Fields

That is again a romantic notion: the hero. I think people enjoy a much more levelled playing field where you have the ability for many people to become heroes.

- Martin Sorrell

source: Source: www.formula1.com

topic: Hero, Thinking, People, Playing Fields

More than 60 percent of small businesses face payment delays. That can cause a serious cash flow crisis. So, as president, I will explore new ways to arm small businesses with the tools to fight back and level the playing field.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: time.com

topic: Fighting, Cash Flow, President, Playing Fields

Those of us who grew up in the '50s and '60s, we had the dream that this could be turned around, and the earth could be back in balance, and that we could level the playing field with men and women and pay, and you know, minority groups having equal opportunity. We just magically thought this was all going to happen: we were going to have clean food, and organic this, and conscious that, and it just didn't happen.

- Bonnie Raitt

source: "Origin Interview: Diggin' Deep with Bonnie Raitt, Legend, Activist, Musician". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

topic: Dream, Opportunity, Men, Minority Groups, Playing Fields

I believe that what I've worked for - women and children, civil rights against poverty, trying to level the playing field for people to have a better chance - is what I still believe is important and what I'm trying to do today.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Children, Believe, Rights, Playing Fields

I don't know whether we'll have another Michael Jackson or Elvis, because the world's too quick to level the playing field in that regard. For example, if Michael Jackson did the moonwalk for the first time now, and it debuted on Twitter, the third comment would probably be: "He's just walking backwards."

- Matthew Healy

source: "The 1975's Matt Healy on That Time Usher Mistook Him for Skrillex". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2016.

topic: Walking Backwards, Playing Fields

The digital revolution is forever. They put importance on that option as well. With Amazon, you're getting the best of both worlds, with a whole new playing field.

- Nicolas Winding Refn

source: Source: www.rogerebert.com

topic: Digital Revolution, Forever, Fields, Playing Fields, Best Of Both Worlds

Amazon, being a provider - not just on the playing field - is, of course, opening up a whole new set of possibilities. At the same time, Amazon also understands platforms. For them, theatrical is an extremely important event. I also believe it's the best way of seeing a movie.

- Nicolas Winding Refn

source: Source: www.rogerebert.com

topic: Believe, Opening Up, Important Events, Playing Fields

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

- John Thorn

topic: Father, Son, Years, Personal History, Level Playing Field

It's such a huge playing field, especially with the wind and shifting tides and only three women out. It's almost like you are fending for yourself out there.

- Malia Manuel

topic: Wind, Drug, Three, Playing Fields

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

- Sarah Palin

source: Keynote Speech at the Inaugural Tea Party Convention, delivered 6 February 2010, Nashville, Tennessee

topic: Government, Competition, Needs, Playing Fields

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

- George Orwell

source: The Lion and the Unicorn pt. 1, sec. 4 (1941) SeeWellington 7

topic: War, Battle, Eton, Waterloo, Playing Fields

If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.

- Bobby Orr

topic: Athlete, Talking, Events, Playing Fields

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

- Julie Bowen

topic: Sports, School, Hockey, Lacrosse, Preps

And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time.

- Dee Dee Myers

topic: Events, Fields, Months, Playing Fields

Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about.

- LeBron James

source: "LeBron James: the full interview". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2011.

topic: Team, Winning, Play, Playing Fields

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

source: "Olympics: Now make a level playing field for women" by Jackie Joyner-Kersee, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2012.

topic: Sports, Opportunity, Games, Olympic Games, Playing Fields

Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.

- Harvey Mackay

topic: Levels, Rewards, Fields, Playing Fields, Rise Above It

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Education, Competition, Levels, Playing Fields

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Level Playing Field, Levels, Might, Playing Fields

Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely going in that direction. President Obama is hell-bent on imposing a bureaucracy that levels all playing fields at great expense in coin and in freedom.

- Bill O'Reilly

topic: President, Coins, Levels, Playing Fields

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

- Ron Kind

topic: Technology, Years, World, Playing Fields

Just for the record, I'm in favor of drug testing EVERY year just as long as it's a level playing field. The problem arises that a lot of these substances are hard to detect. So, it's very difficult to have true, drug-free bodybuilding competition, especially on the professional level.

- Lee Labrada

source: Interview with John Hansen, www.bodybuilding.com. August 10, 2014.

topic: Bodybuilding, Years, Long, Level Playing Field, Drug Free

Winning is an approach to life. The place it starts is not on the playing field or in the business organization; nor is it competitive. We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Success, Buddhism, Winning, Playing Fields, Business Organization

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

- Joe Hockey

source: "Joe Hockey says 'we can't promise equality' as he dismisses budget critics" by Lenore Taylor, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2014.

topic: Government, Roles, Tools, Playing Fields, Role Of Government

In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.

- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

topic: Order, Needs, Level Playing Field, Playing Fields

Countries like Jamaica do not have a random program, so they can go months without being tested. I'm not saying anyone is on anything, but everyone needs to be on a level playing field.

- Carl Lewis

topic: Country, Jamaica, Needs, Level Playing Field, Playing Fields

The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

- Sara Sheridan

topic: Criticism, Level Playing Field, Levels, Playing Fields

Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.

- Vinton Cerf

topic: People, Level Playing Field, Levels, Instant Messaging, Playing Fields

Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.

- Michael K. Powell

source: "Broadband Internet Keeps The American Dream Alive & Accessible" by Michael K. Powell, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2010.

topic: Dream, Information, Matter, Broadband, Playing Fields

Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.

- Robert Mankoff

topic: Fields, Levels, Understood, Playing Fields

I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!

- Erin Gruwell

topic: Educational, Believe, Fighting, Playing Fields, Equalizer

In football I enjoyed competing and wanted to be the best. That was also part of it. There were quite a few factors. I loved the game, it was a great way to socialize and I liked playing against girls because it meant competing on a level playing field.

- Hope Powell

source: Source: www.bbc.co.uk

topic: Girl, Football, Games, Level Playing Field, Playing Fields

The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron -- and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring -- embody the American dream of Eden.

- Lewis H. Lapham

topic: Dream, Blessed, Eden, Playing Fields, Stock Exchange

Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a lot of administration, you don't have to negotiate anything. It just is what it is.

- Nick Hanauer

source: Source: gawker.com

topic: Simple, Fields, Administration, Playing Fields

This is about Americans getting off the sidelines and getting onto the playing field, .. This is about each and every one of us who have been blessed by the wealth of this country sharing that blessing by reaching down and reaching back and lifting up somebody in need. That's what America is all about. That's what being American is all about.

- Colin Powell

topic: Country, Blessed, Blessing, Lifting Up, Playing Fields

Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three years. And Al Gore has opposed every serious proposal to provide American farmers with meaningful tax relief.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Meaningful, Years, Agriculture, Playing Fields

If the CEO doesn’t see the playing field, nobody else can. The team may need to see it too, but the CEO really needs to be able to see the entire competitive space.

- Steve Ballmer

topic: Team, Space, May, Playing Fields

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

- Maynard Jackson

topic: Opportunity, Level Playing Field, Guarantees, Affirmative Action, Affirmative

I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.

- Courtney Love

topic: Sisterhood, Men, Fields, Playing Fields

The job of an elected president is to overcome the past and change the playing field.

- Ashraf Ghani

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Jobs, Past, President, Playing Fields

As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.

- John B. Larson

source: "Globalization: A Rendezvous with Reality" by John B. Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2007.

topic: Reality, Leader, Levels, Playing Fields

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

- Roger McGuinn

topic: Artist, Years, Laptops, Playing Fields, Years Of Experience

If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean.

- Holland Smith

topic: Beach, Marine, Battle, Waterloo, Playing Fields

The Internet has leveled the investment playing field.

- Donald Luskin

topic: Fields, Internet, Investment, Playing Fields

No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and body. As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time, you are free of all demands and complications.

- Sadaharu Oh

topic: Running, Home, Men, Playing Fields