Nfl Quotes - Page 23

• You must relate athletic experiences to life.

  Joe Paterno

  Athletic, Relate

  Speech to high school coaches, Hershey, Pennsylvania, www.today.com. February 5, 1993.

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• What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.

  Joe Paterno

  Teacher, Educator, Cases

  Speech to high school coaches, Hershey, Pennsylvania, www.today.com. February 5, 1993.

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• To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.

  Amos Alonzo Stagg

  Coaching, Building, Reaching

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• No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth.

  Amos Alonzo Stagg

  Men, Athletic, Youth

  Amos Alonzo Stagg, Wesley Winans Stout (1927). “Touchdown!: As told by Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg to Wesley Winans Stout”

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• Losing is easy. It's not enjoyable, but it's easy.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Losing, Easy, Enjoyable

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  Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

  Vince Lombardi

  Character, Watches, Action

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• I've been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don't know whether I'm particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country's best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.

  Vince Lombardi

  Teamwork, Football, Country

  Vince Lombardi (2001). “What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.15, McGraw Hill Professional

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• As a man of faith, God doesn't bring you to things that you can't get through. He doesn't put you in a spot and then leave you out to dry.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Men, Dry, Spots

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• If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback list.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Winning, Years, Together

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• The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Games, Feelings, Pressure

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• The butterflies I get are not if somebody boos me in the crowd, or somebody talks trash about me during the week, or somebody on ESPN rips me. It's the pressure that I'm putting on myself.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Rip, Butterfly, Crowds

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• I know a lot of friends and family who were Joe Montana fans, where it didn't matter how well Steve Young did. They weren't going to cheer for him because he wasn't Joe Montana.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Cheer, Family And Friends, Fans

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• I'm not playing for anybody but the guys in this locker room.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Guy, Lockers, Rooms

  "Milwaukee Talks: QB Aaron Rodgers, May 2008". Interview with Jason Wilde, onmilwaukee.com. May 23, 2008.

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• The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Want, Coaches

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• And so now you think society is to blame for the mess you made of yourself?

  Deacon Jones

  Thinking, Blame, Made

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• When I flew from Orlando to Los Angeles in 1960, I sat next to a guy from Disney who was paying 75¢ an acre for land. I thought he was some special kind of fool - and since they built the park, history has proven there was a fool sitting in one of our seats.

  Deacon Jones

  Land, Guy, Special

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• If people think I'm a laid-back guy, that's their mistake.

  Peyton Manning

  Mistake, Thinking, People

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• I remember when I first got into the league, I thought how it would be nice to have a year when you were the best. That means your team is probably winning.

  Peyton Manning

  Nice, Team, Mean

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• When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with.

  Peyton Manning

  Thinking, People, Make You Think

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• My job is to play well offensively and help my team score points. So I feel very responsible every time we lose a game.

  Peyton Manning

  Jobs, Team, Games

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• I'm proud to be Archie's son. Being a quarterback, I had my mentor and hero living in the same house.

  Peyton Manning

  Hero, Son, House

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• I'm a serious person by nature - sometimes too serious.

  Peyton Manning

  Serious Person, Sometimes, Persons

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• You want a messenger boy, call Western Union.

  Joe Don Looney

  Boys, Unions, Want

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• A plastic man really, actually no man at all.

  Duane Thomas

  Men, Plastic

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• He runs like a camel. A really pissed off camel.

  Art Donovan

  Running, Pissed Off, Camels

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