Nfl Quotes - Page 20

• Running back was always my favorite position.

  Barry Sanders

  Running, My Favorite, Position

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• Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

  Gale Sayers

  Hero, People, Needs

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• There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

  Gale Sayers

  Moving Up, Pages Turning, Individuality

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• You are the land. The land is you.

  Merlin Olsen

  Inspirational, Land

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• Nobody intimidates me.

  Mike Singletary

  Intimidating

  Mike Singletary, Jerry B. Jenkins (1991). “Singletary on Singletary”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

  Mike Singletary

  Appreciation, Coaches

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• You never really know about a quarterback until he plays in a real game.

  Mike Singletary

  Real, Games, Play

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• Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

  Emmitt Smith

  Whole Life, Thirst, Thirst For Knowledge

  "Life After Football for Emmitt Smith" by Bob Brown, abcnews.go.com. November 21, 2006.

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• I feel so fortunate, so honored, to have played this game that I love for so long, with so many great players, and in front of so many wonderful fans. I fulfilled a childhood dream the first time I stepped on an NFL field, and the league did not let me down one time.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Dream, Player, Games

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• The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I'm honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it's a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans.

  Drew Brees

  Athlete, Player, New Orleans

  "Nfl Draft Is Today, Drew Brees Steals Its Thunder With 'madden Nfl 11' Cover" by Brian Warmoth, www.mtv.com. April 22, 2010.

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• In the NFL they talk about "contracts," but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that.

  Eric Dickerson

  Mean, Cutting, Agreement

  "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

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• In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.

  Eric Dickerson

  Running, Years, Three

  "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

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• Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.

  Paul Allen

  Sports, Football, Team

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• The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

  Michael Lewis

  Football, Business, Bears

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• My first two years in the CFL, all I thought of was getting back to the NFL - it was like 'I'll put my time in up here and go back.' Then I went and signed a nice contract in Calgary and was like, 'Hey, I can make a living up here, this is great football, and I'm having a blast.

  Doug Flutie

  Football, Nice, Years

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• When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in.

  Doug Flutie

  Years, Doors, Today

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• I think the state of the NFL has a very positive outlook.

  Roger Goodell

  Thinking, Positive Outlook, States

  "Commissioner Roger Goodell on the State of the NFL; Gridiron Greats Lynn Swann and Jerry Kramer Relive Super Bowl Memories". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2010.

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• It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.

  Roger Goodell

  Privilege, Wanted

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• Guys are just too fast and too big in the NFL.

  Josh Hopkins

  Guy, Bigs

  "Josh Hopkins Talks Lebanon, the NFL Draft, and Phone Sex With Cougar Town Fans". Interview with Christian Chung, www.amc.com. April, 2011.

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• It was another day to go to work, and try to play and play well.

  Ray Nitschke

  Play, Trying, Another Day

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• I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.

  Bill Parcells

  Football, Thinking, People

  "From XLIII: An interview with Bill Parcells". Interview with Nick Friedell, sports.yahoo.com. January 31, 2009.

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• I don't go to games as much as I used to because of the NFL's Sunday Ticket. So I'll watch the games, take notes.

  Steve Sabol

  Sunday, Games, Tickets

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport that I loved, about players and coaches that I respected. I wanted to convey my love of the game through film. And most artists convey their love through art. And my art and my love was expressed through film.

  Steve Sabol

  Sports, Art, Player

  "The "I Am" Q&A". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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• There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.

  Steve Sabol

  New Orleans, Broken, Luck

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.

  Steve Sabol

  Years, People, Creative

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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