I felt the way people talked to me was like, 'It's OK to be No. 2 in the NFL, a backup,' and things like that. That's never been my approach.

- Colin Kaepernick

When I was a backup singer, I enjoyed it.

- Darlene Love

I don't think that I've ever been a backup.

- Joe Namath

For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.

- Laurieann Gibson

Always have a backup plan.

- Mila Kunis

Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.

- M. Stanton Evans

And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

- Umberto Guidoni