Raiders Quotes

• The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Crazy, Weight, Lockers

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• We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here.

  Al Davis

  Passion, Winning, Player

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• If something is said about the Raiders, I'm ready to go to war.

  Jim Otto

  War, Said, Ready

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• I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.

  Ron Jaworski

  Sports, Art, Years

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• I like the Raiders. That's my favorite team.

  Paul Pierce

  Team, Team Building, My Favorite

  Interview with Hilary Goldstein, www.ign.com. September 25, 2002.

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• I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.

  Jim Otto

  Position

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• I have seen the Raiders develop into what they are today.

  Jim Otto

  Today

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• Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.

  Joe Greene

  Eight, Cities, Kansas City

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• Once a Raider, always a Raider.

  Al Davis

  Nfl, Oakland Raiders

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• It's not the years honey, it's the mileage.

  Harrison Ford

  Years, Honey, Ark

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• When I hear anything derogatory towards the Raiders, I am definitely hurt.

  Jim Otto

  Hurt, Derogatory

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• Indiana Jones. I always knew some day you'd come walking back through my door. I never doubted that. Something made it inevitable.

  Marion Raven

  Doors, Ark, Indiana

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• I grew up in LA. I sort of watched the Raiders play and that sort of thing.

  Jay Hernandez

  Play, Grew Up, Grew

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• I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Football, Rocks, Oakland

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• My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

  Rickey Henderson

  Mom, Baseball, Football

  Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Speech, delivered 26 July 2009, Cooperstown, OH

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• I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard bearer, someone that players, coaches, fans and the Raider Nation can all look up to. One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled.

  Al Davis

  Football, Passion, Greatness

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• Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.

  Al Davis

  Nfl, Should, Knows

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• If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

  Al Davis

  Years, Games, Nfl

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• No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.

  Al Davis

  Football, Team, Nfl

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• The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future.

  Al Davis

  Lying, Greatness

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• We now live in a world both in film and television where everything is based on something. You point out, "Star Wars" was an original screenplay, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," an original screenplay, "Ghostbusters" an original screenplay, "Back to the Future." All these things that people love were original ideas many years ago.

  Alfred Gough

  Stars, War, Years

  "‘Into the Badlands’ Creators On Attempting Something That’s Never Been Tried on TV". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2015.

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• The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.

  Ice Cube

  Home, People, Black

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• The fire that burns brightest in the Raiders organization is the will to win.

  Al Davis

  Winning, Fire, Organization

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• If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them... I bought original, real guns of the type we used in Tomb Raider for security. Brad and I are not against having a gun in the house, and we do have one. And yes, I'd be able to use it if I had to.

  Angelina Jolie

  Hurt, Real, Kids

  "'I've got my Tomb Raider guns - and I'm not afraid to use them,' says Angelina". Interview with Martyn Palmer, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 2, 2008.

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• The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.

  Steve Sabol

  Song, Fun, Autumn

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

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