Nfl Quotes - Page 39

• I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Angel, Decision

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• If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Finishing, Starting

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• I love doing what I do.

  Brett Favre

  Football, Best Football

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• When Paul Brown talked contract, the championship game was part of it. We took the championship game for granted.

  Otto Graham

  Football, Games, Championship

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• I could throw a pass to a spot as well as anyone who ever lived - But that's a God-given talent. I could never stand back and flick the ball 60 yards downfield with my wrists like Dan Marino does.

  Otto Graham

  Football, Yards, Doe

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• Every football player knows when his time is up.

  Red Grange

  Football, Player, Knows

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• I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.

  Red Grange

  Football, Running, Smart

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• I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

  Red Grange

  Football, School, Men

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• The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

  Red Grange

  Football, Player, My Time

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• No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it.

  Red Grange

  Football, Credit, Taught

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• They say that when you're the champs, everybody will try to beat you. Well, I'm glad we're champs, so bring'em on, bring'em all on. If we die, we ain't gonna die running. It's gonna be a fight.

  Joe Greene

  Football, Running, Fighting

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• For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

  Joe Greene

  Football, Pain, Team

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• I believe in being positive.

  Joe Greene

  Football, Believe, Being Positive

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• I never had a desire to hurt anybody.

  Joe Greene

  Football, Hurt, Desire

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• When you win and you don't have anyone to share it with, why win? You have someone to share it with you.

  Joe Greene

  Football, Winning, Share

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• It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Real, Long

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• You'll find your life greatly simplified if you only worry about stuff you can fix.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Worry, Stuff

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• Be patient with the negative people of the world. Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify your own thinking and firming your own resolve. Then, headslap them out of your way.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Thinking, People

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• I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks in the NFL. "Sack the quarterback." That was nice. I thought it was lots better than saying, "Jones tackles the QB behind the line for another loss of yardage ..." It had a ring to it, and it caught on with the sports writers. But I tell you, doing it was a lot more fun than talking about it.

  Deacon Jones

  Sports, Football, Fun

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• The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Lying, Guy

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• Give me a 6 pack, half-hour of rest and lets go play them again - We can beat them.

  Jack Lambert

  Letting Go, Football, Play

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• I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest - If you can't take it, you shouldn't play!

  Jack Lambert

  Football, Believe, Games

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• If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.

  Jack Lambert

  Football, Believe, Player

  "Check Out the Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame Tribute Video" by Bryan DeArdo, www.cbssports.com. August 05, 2016.

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• The Steelers drafted guys who were bigger, stronger and faster than me, but they never found one who could take my job away from me.

  Jack Lambert

  Football, Jobs, Guy

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• I am very aggressive and very physical. On the field, I guess I am just plain mean.

  Jack Lambert

  Football, Mean, Fields

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