Chris Christie

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

American Politician

Andrea Pirlo

I've always been used to playing 60 games - one every three days - and I've played on artificial turf. There is artificial turf in Europe as well in some places. There is heat as well. And if it's hot for me at 110 degrees Fahrenheit, it's hot for the others as well.

Italian Athlete

Megan Rapinoe

I think it's absolutely absurd that we're playing on turf, and it's really a slap in the face to women's football by FIFA and just a show of disrespect.

American Athlete

Margaret Brennan

I've noticed something happens when you take the masters of the universe outside of their home turf. They breathe.

Alice S. Rossi

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

American Activist

Marco van Basten

I think it's strange to change the turf three days before a match.

Dutch Manager

Helen Thomas

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

American Journalist

Elliott Abrams

Never fight turf on turf. Fight it on the basis of ideas.

American Lawyer

A. J. Green

I hate turf. I feel like turf has always hurt me.

American Football Player

Hikaru Nakamura

Japanese Celebrity

Turf involves the ground's top layer where grass naturally grows.

Natural Ground

Often used when discussing gardening or maintaining green spaces.

Gardening Context

Turf condition can indicate soil health and may need care.

Health of Grass

Artificial turf is common in sports, known for its durability.

Sports Use

Artificial turf doesn't grow, so it doesn't require mowing.

Maintenance Difference

Turf fields can be used in most weather conditions, unlike grass.

All-Weather Play

Turf can mean someone's habitual place, their comfort zone.

Personal Space

Turf is informal when referring to someone's territory or influence.

Colloquial Territory

In some contexts, turf is associated with disputes over control.

Conflict Connotation

 if you go and just shoot guns in the air in the other gang's territory -- people are afraid to go buy drugs there, they're going to come into your neighborhood. Here's what he says about why they don't do "If we start shooting around there, the other gang's territory, nobody, I mean, you dig it, nobody gonna step on their turf.

The freakonomics of...

 but they sized me up as they made their way to the turf, and spoke to each other not with words but with numbers, degrees, I thought, positions for how they might plan to hit their target. I stood behind one archer as her coach stood in between us to maybe assess who might need support, and watched her,

Sarah Lewis: Embrace the...

 medicine it's really not a very friendly field for evolutionary biologists you actually see a great potential but you see a lot of people who are sort of defending their turf and and may actually be very resistant to try to resistant when one tries to introduce ideas so all of the talk today is going

Can we domesticate...

 Now, when the hospital saw this originally, they tried to lay turf back over it, ignore it. But after a while, they realized it was an important need they were meeting for their patients, so they paved it. And I think our job is often to pave these emerging desire paths.

What can we learn from...

 joined them one day the turtles in wreck or be safe and protected in a way that would be good for the turtles but also for the people who are whose lives depend on the turf wars and today that's dream has also come true not only because of the sanctuary but because

Sri Lankan Marine Turtle...

 by natural ists is a meerkat social group from five to thirty members here the mob gathers to observe the deadly puff adder - by the way meerkats are fiercely territorial and will fight to defend their turf from snakes or other

Scorpion's Worst...

 with a hundred thousand bats in the same grove of trees things are bound to heat up fights often break out over which branch belongs to who they defend their turf but they rarely break skin mostly

Meet the World's Biggest...

 evaporates but with a hundred thousand bats in the same grove of trees things are bound to heat up fights often break out over which branch belongs to whom they defend their turf but they rarely

 thirty members here the mob gathers to observe the deadly puff adder by the way meerkats are fiercely territorial and will fight to defend their turf from

Meerkat Mischief PIPE...

 these these shredded pieces of our turf just torn up life