Maybe it hurts too much to watch instead of play.
Yes, far too many of us watch instead of play.
"The guys tend to get complacent, and they stop watching instead of staying aggressive," Davis said.
But if they were really sorry, they'd simply hide the shows that we can't actually watch, instead of getting our hopes up and wasting our time.
And, just as importantly, at least he is capable of making England a team worth watching, instead of a team only marginally easier on the eye than Switzerland.
"If you were to see me as a cheerleader," he once said, "that would mean I was only watching, instead of thinking".
Watching instead of playing was difficult, he acknowledged, and in the game's final moments, he dropped his head in prayer, not wanting to watch as his teammate Luke Hancock took two critical free throws.
That first day, she decided to watch instead of cheer, but when she came home, she had already memorized four songs and practiced belting them out in our living room.
That is what the greats do, their work draws in all of our attention, and we stand in awe watching instead of doing.
Showing more, longer videos could seduce more mainstream users inclined to sit back and watch instead of laboriously reading through reams of text tweets.
