Linebackers Quotes

• I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

  Bill Parcells

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

  Ron Jaworski

  Sports, Moving, Balls

  "The OSC Interview: Philadelphia Soul President Ron Jaworski". Interview with Fran Stuchbury, www.oursportscentral.com. August 15, 2005.

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• I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats.

  Ray Lewis

  Football, Believe, Player

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• The linebacker has to make multiple, multiple decisions on every play. Not only what his assignment is and what the play is, but all the way along the line, different angles, how to take on blocks, how to tackle, the leverage to play with, the angle to run to and so forth, the technique. So many different things happen in a split second during the course of the play, just like it is for a quarterback. The more of those things that you can do right, slow down, get the most important things, not get distracted by all the stuff that's happening, but just really zero in on a target.

  Bill Belichick

  Running, Zero, Block

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

  Junior Seau

  Real, Average

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  Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.

  Dale Dauten

  People, Lawyer, Knocking

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• When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

  Dick Butkus

  Sports, Football, Hurt

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• Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.

  Walter Payton

  Running, Giving, Trying

  Walter Payton, Don Yaeger (2001). “Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton”, Random House

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• Getting to the linebackers is difficult. Blocking them is another challenge.

  Kirk Ferentz

  Block, Challenges, Difficult

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• Footwork is definitely key for a linebacker. We make our money playing laterally. You've got to be able to move side to side and play sideline to sideline. So doing quick feet drills like ladders and keeping your footwork right is important.

  Brandon Spikes

  Moving, Keys, Play

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• I feel like as a linebacker or a D-lineman, any cut, it's a man sport -- be a man, hit me up high, Hit like rams. You don't see a ram going and cutting another ram's legs. They hit head to head, pad to pad.

  Patrick Willis

  Sports, Cutting, Men

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• We felt responsible for each other. The D-line's got to take care of that line of scrimmage, (the linebackers) have got to clean up, and the safeties and DBs take care of that back end. We felt we're a brotherhood and we just had to get it done.

  Kawika Mitchell

  Safety, Brotherhood, Done

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• I want to be recognized as the best-no doubt about it. When they say all-pro middle linebacker, I want them to mean Butkus!

  Dick Butkus

  Football, Mean, Nfl

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• Linebacker is a lot more detail oriented and you have to know a lot more than a defensive end necessarily would on any given play.

  Justin Cole

  Play, Details, Ends

  Source: prod.www.chiefs.clubs.nfl.com

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• Lee Roy was the best college linebacker - bar none. He would have made every tackle on every play if they had stayed in bounds.

  Bear Bryant

  College, Play, Bars

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• Tori walked toward the bed. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw her give Derek a once-over. "You know, from this angle, he doesn't look too bad," she said. I glared at her. "I'm just saying . . ." I leaned over Derek, calling him as loudly as I dared. "Personally, I'm more a running back girl myself," Tori said. "But if you like the linebacker type, he's--" My glower shut her up

  Kelley Armstrong

  Girl, Running, Eye

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• I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.

  Greg Bryk

  Football, College, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Attitude

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• I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Pain, Gambling

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• I'm doing the exact same thing and adding a little bit more flexibility. I'm going to bench here. I'm not a kicker who's just going to hang out at practice. I'm going to be in the weight room pushing linebackers, defensive ends, tight ends. I'm going to push everyone. whatever I'm doing, I'm putting up numbers that someone else would do. Not only do I love working out, but at the same time it's able for others to maximize their potential.

  Kyle Brindza

  Practice, Nfl, Numbers

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• Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.

  Miranda Kenneally

  Heartbroken, Hurt, Pounds

  Miranda Kenneally (2013). “Miranda Kenneally Bundle: Catching Jordan, Stealing Parker, Things I Can't Forget”, p.144, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I always say we got 700 pounds of pork up front. They're going to hold guys down and allow us linebackers to make a lot of plays. Even in practice. I'm loving it, man.

  Takeo Spikes

  Men, Practice, Play

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• I'm very tall, so I like a guy who's bigger than me - it makes me feel feminine and safe. I don't like to be hovering over a guy or feel like a linebacker.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Guy, Hovering, Safe

  "Adrianne Palicki: The Woman of Your Dreams". Interview with Gerilyn Manago, www.menshealth.com. March 29, 2013.

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• I think that it definitely makes the transition easier being able to know linebacker and having also played on the defensive line. You can kind of know what they're expecting on the back end and what you are kind of expecting from them.

  Justin Cole

  Thinking, Transition, Lines

  Source: prod.www.chiefs.clubs.nfl.com

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