Touchdowns Quotes - Page 3

• In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?

  Barry Sanders

  Motivation, Rushing, People

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• My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

  Haley Barbour

  Mother, Football, Brother

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Deficit Reduction; Gov. Haley Barbour on 2012 Presidential Politics". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2011.

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• One thing I've been doing since I was a little kid and that's score touchdowns so if somebody needs somebody to get in the red zone and do some work, I could probably still do that pretty well.

  Shaun Alexander

  Kids, Needs, Littles

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• I actually called a touchdown on national TV in the NFL while going to the bathroom.

  Joe Buck

  Nfl, Tvs, Bathroom

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Compare the credit for a football touchdown, which might be shared by the receiver not only with the quarterback, but also with the linesmen who make crucial protective plays, etc. The success of the touchdown play depends on the receiver, it is true; but in a particular case it might depend far more on the work of others.

  Ernest Sosa

  Football, Play, Credit

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

  Kevin Hart

  Sports, Sorry, Athlete

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• Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Nike, Running, Warrior

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.199, Pan Macmillan

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• You can’t depend on special teams touchdowns and blocked punts every week to win.

  Rodney Harrison

  Team, Winning, Special

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• As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.

  Joe Montana

  Winning, Opportunity, Years

  "From XLIII: An interview with Joe Montana". Interview with Nick Friedell, sports.yahoo.com. February 01, 2009.

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