I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.

- Earl Campbell

Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.

- Kelli O'Hara

All we can do is find the courage to stand still and to look backwards.

- Joshua Oppenheimer

If you keep looking backwards, you don't go anywhere.

- Jeff Ross

I can ski backwards on one ski. And foldblinded!

- Ivana Trump

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.

- Howard Staunton

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

- Hermann Ebbinghaus

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.

- Guy Laliberte

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

- Eric Roth

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

- Aldous Huxley

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

- Edvard Munch

What I do know is our state and country is currently backwards and upside-down, and we all are to blame in one fashion or another.

- David Pratt

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

- Dolly Parton

I never felt my career was going backwards.

- Charlie Adam

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

- Carter Burwell

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

- Al Boliska

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

- Alafair Burke

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

- Alan Cumming

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

- Arthur Smith