Pro Football Quotes - Page 4

• I'm not pro-owner or pro-player. I am pro-football. I want the game to go on. I want the game to be tough. I don't want the game to be a killer of our players.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Player, Games

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• The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

  Alan Page

  Football, Successful, Player

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• The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are.

  Betty Furness

  Football, Games, Chess

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• Pro Football Hall of Famer is something that everyone recognizes as the pinnacle of any achievement in sport. All the fame and all the recognition that we single out in various industries, the Pro Football Hall of Fame is really special.

  John Riggins

  Sports, Football, Achievement

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - were talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.

  Adam Ross

  Football, Book, Writing

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• There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Football, Distance, Emotional

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always felt like the most improvement you can make is from year 1 to year 2, much like a college freshman who the most improvement he can make in an entire one year of college football is going from year 1 freshman year to his sophomore year. Like a pro football player going from his rookie season to his second season. There's a window there that will never come again that you have a chance to making your biggest strides.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Football, Player, College

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

  Angela Carter

  Life And Death, Literature, Matter

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• There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Baseball, Football, Distance

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

  Wellington Mara

  Football, Pops, Absolutely Nothing

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• What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Life And Death

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• I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Football, Brother, Watches

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• If you're a pro coach, NFL stands for 'Not for long.

  Jerry Glanville

  Football, Nfl, Long

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• Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

  Lynn Swann

  Football, Running, Distance

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• My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.

  E. J. Holub

  Football, Fighting, Knives

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• You guys line up alphabetically by height.

  Bill Peterson

  Sports, Football, Guy

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• Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

  Bill Peterson

  Stupid, Men, Thinking

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• It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.

  John Facenda

  Gun, Ends

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• In Montana, they renamed a town after an all-time great, Joe Montana. Well, a town in Massachusetts changed their name to honor my guy Terry Bradshaw--Marblehead.

  Howie Long

  Football, Names, Nfl

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• People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher.

  Craig Heyward

  Football, Nfl Players, People

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• No talking. Talking doesn't play football, talking isn't going to make you practice harder or play harder.

  Ken Simonton

  Football, Talking, Practice

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• Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

  Dan Jenkins

  Leadership, Sports, Football

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• I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium.

  Al Davis

  Football, Winning, Nfl

  "Houston's NFL Gain May Be Bay Area's Loss" by Ira Miller, www.sfgate.com. October 7, 1999.

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• People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.

  Pete Rozelle

  Football, Emotional, Oasis

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