Nfl Quotes - Page 37

• I've always viewed myself as an achiever. I need to achieve for myself.

  Troy Aikman

  Football, Needs, Achieve

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• It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Football, Running

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• But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

  Marcus Allen

  Football, Best Football, Shoulders

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• He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way.

  Sammy Baugh

  Christian, Football, People

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• Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.

  Chuck Bednarik

  Football, Games, Glory

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• The positions I played, every play, I was making contact, not like that Deion Sanders. He couldn't tackle my wife. He's back there dancing out there instead of hitting.

  Chuck Bednarik

  Football, Play, Dancing

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• And you get into that sort of cannibalistic feeling - all you want to do is go out there and, like I say, kill somebody. I'm going to get him. I'm going to kill'em. Not like you are going to put them into the ground after, but you just want to kill a guy.

  Chuck Bednarik

  Football, Guy, Feelings

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• You've got to play with that killer instinct, man. You've got to hate that guy across from you. Then after the game is over, tell him what a nice guy he is. Shake his hand. Especially if you win.

  Chuck Bednarik

  Football, Hate, Nice

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• For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play, it's a joke. Is it football? Are you guys football players? Is that what they call football? It's not iron-man football, where you stay on the field for 60 minutes. Everybody! We were iron men. Not a bunch of pussyfoots.

  Chuck Bednarik

  Football, Boys, Player

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• I just liked to play football, no matter what the position.

  Bobby Bell

  Football, Play, Matter

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• Fans are fans. I hated and loved them, hated and loved them, hated and loved them.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Fans, Hated

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• The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Player, Play Hard

  Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. January 30, 2011.

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• Ride it when you retire.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Best Football, Retiring

  "Steelers Quarterback Roethlisberger Seriously Injured in Motorcycle Crash". www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2006.

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• I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Cities, Numbers

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• No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Winning, Years

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• I loved the game. We played because we loved it.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Games, Best Football

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• When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Caring, Problem

  "Q&A with Jim Brown". Interview with Charles Robinson, www.yahoo.com. November 30, 2006.

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• Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Running, Player

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• If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Integrity, Believe

  "Jim Brown: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 2, 2008.

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• I don't teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that's not it. You don't have to be number 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Kids, Organization

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• I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Choices, Lazy

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• We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.

  Dick Butkus

  Football, Challenges, Schedules

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• Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Football is something I was made for. I gave the game all I could for as long as I could. I guess my only regret was that my career was too short.

  Dick Butkus

  Football, Regret, Games

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• My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

  Dick Butkus

  Football, Winning, Trying

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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, Doubt

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