American Football Quotes - Page 6

• That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Goal, Fields

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• I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

  Jack Youngblood

  Motivational, Football, Nfl

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• I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in the zone.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Motivational, Football, Games

  "Lawrence Taylor: Getting Blitzed". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 31, 2005.

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• The best part of it for me is the idea that this group of young men, who came together and believed in themselves, bought the team concept completely, took the names off the back of the jerseys, checked the egos at the door.

  Tom Coughlin

  Motivational, Football, Team

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• I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.

  Bobby Layne

  Motivational, Football, Games

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• Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Football, War, Games

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• It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

  George Santayana

  Football, Art, Kindness

  George Santayana (1968). “Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy”

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• I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

  Don Shula

  Team, Winning, Player

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• Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.

  Emmitt Smith

  Dream, Real, Mean

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• I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

  Sting

  Football, Wrestling, Usa

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• For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.

  Don Hutson

  Basketball, Practice, Games

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• There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.

  Dan Marino

  Soccer, Nfl, Perfect

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• Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

  John Heisman

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• You guys line up alphabetically by height.

  Bill Peterson

  Sports, Football, Guy

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• Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

  Doug Plank

  Sports, Football, Player

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• The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.

  Erma Bombeck

  Football, Funny Inspirational, College

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• There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass.

  Dan Devine

  Football, Pain, College

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• When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

  Tom Landry

  Success, Sports, Football

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• When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.

  Max McGee

  Sports, Football, Nfl

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• I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

  Jack Tatum

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

  Jack Tatum, Bill Kushner (1980). “They Call Me Assassin”, Avon Books

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• You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

  Dan Birdwell

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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• The most prepared are the most dedicated.

  Raymond Berry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• It's always something that's going to be a part of me. It's the reason why I work so hard each and every day. It's the reason I come to work dedicated to become the best that I can be. Nothing's going to come easy in life, and I've learned a lot of lessons, some the hard way, and I think just the things that I've been through have helped mold me into the person I am and what (is in) my future and that's continuing to do things the right way.

  Michael Vick

  Sports, Commitment, Thinking

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• Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

  Chuck Knox

  Sports, Believe, Commitment

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• Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis.

  Tim Green

  Football, Nfl, Brain

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