Lineman Quotes

• Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that.

  Dante Hall

  Sports, Games, Fans

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• Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

  Merlin Olsen

  Football, Simple, Self

  "Who's Better, Who's Best in Football?: Setting the Record Straight on the Top 60 NFL Players of the Past 60 Years". Book by Steve Silverman, 2009.

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• The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

  Knute Rockne

  Leadership, Football, College

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• To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.

  Jerry Kramer

  Ovation, Kind, Offensive Lineman

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• I am a lineman for the county.

  Glen Campbell

  County

  Song: Wichita Lineman, Album: Ten Great Songs

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• I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Sports, Football, Names

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• Offensive linemen are like salt. Nobody ever remembers the brand they buy.

  Blaine Nye

  Salt, Remember, Offensive

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• I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.

  Earl Campbell

  Football, Block, Nfl

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• When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Nfl, Pounds

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• Every great team that I've been on, the offensive linemen was the bell cows of the whole team.

  Scott Frost

  Team, Bells, Cows

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• You continue to build and work on new things, and continue to beat offensive linemen, week in and week out.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Offensive, Week, Beats

  "The Shutdown Corner Interview: Ndamukong Suh". Interview with Doug Farrar, sports.yahoo.com. June 30, 2011.

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• I would have all my offensive linemen wrestle if I could.

  John Madden

  Offensive, Linemen, If I Could

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• Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Football, Play, Skills

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• I like to compare the two to a quarterback and a lineman. Being a brakeman is very physical and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters. Your position is won or lost by the hundredths of seconds you are faster than another individual. It's like the lineman who is there mostly for their athleticism and physicality. The driver, like the quarterback, possesses a unique skill that takes a lot longer to learn.

  Elana Meyers

  Unique, Skills, Two

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I really like to play inside. I really like being able to go one-on-one with an offensive lineman every play. At defensive end, you're more running up the field and containing more than you are just against an offensive lineman.

  Darrion Scott

  Running, Play, Able

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• I don't want to be one of those players that is just a first, second or third down player. I want to be a four-down player, able to play in the ground and dirt with the linemen, but also able to play in space.

  Justin Cole

  Player, Space, Four

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

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• Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

  Dennis Miller

  Sports, Football, Talking

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• I see more now. As far as concepts, I know where teammates are going, linemen are going. I can read defensive fronts. I can read the body language of linebackers. I study film to see who's a bull rusher and who's a finesse rusher. I think I've learned.

  Brandon Jacobs

  Thinking, Bulls, Body

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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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• Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies.

  Dan Fouts

  Nfl, Want, Linemen

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• You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You’re sacking them. You’re bagging them. And that’s what you’re doing with a quarterback.

  Deacon Jones

  Baseball, Bats, Bags

  "Deacon Jones Dies at 74; Made Quarterback Sack Brutal and Enthralling" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. June 4, 2013.

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• I feel like I've helped create a new standard of hustle for defensive linemen.

  Jevon Kearse

  Hustle, Linemen, Standards

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• I can tell Tajh Boyd is scared back there. He ain't no sitting duck, but you can see in his eyes that he's scared of our D-linemen. We know that coming into the game that we have him shook already. We get a couple hits on him and it changes the whole game. He's scared every time we play them. I know he's probably listening to this right now, but I'm just telling the truth, man.

  Jadeveon Clowney

  Couple, Eye, Men

  "The best Jadeveon Clowney quotes from SEC Media Day" by Christopher Wilson, sports.yahoo.com. July 17, 2013.

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• I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.

  Jack Youngblood

  Offensive, Linemen, Offensive Lineman

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• maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.

  Velda Johnston

  Football, Essentials, Actors

  Velda Johnston (1990). “Flight to Yesterday”, G K Hall & Company

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