Best Football Quotes - Page 3

• I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.

  Eric Dickerson

  Running, Football, Believe

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• Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, "When are you gonna start running hard?" The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth - Man, I love to run!

  Eric Dickerson

  Football, Running, Men

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• I don't give players a chance to hit me.

  Eric Dickerson

  Sports, Football, Player

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• I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

  Eric Dickerson

  Football, Thinking, Nfl

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• I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.

  Earl Campbell

  Football, Block, Nfl

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• My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.

  Earl Campbell

  Football, Running, Nfl

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• I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

  Earl Campbell

  Football, Running, Nfl

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• I played football with my whole body - My hands, my head, my face. I did it all.

  Earl Campbell

  Football, Nfl, Hands

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• If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

  Dick Butkus

  Football, Smart, Player

  Dick Butkus (1997). “Butkus: Flesh and Blood”, Doubleday Books

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• If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.

  Dick Butkus

  Football, Nfl, Way

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• I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

  Dick Butkus

  Football, Player, Nfl

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• A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Oklahoma, Nfl

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• All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Men, Nfl

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• If you understand what the other team is trying to do to stop you, it makes your job easier.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Jobs, Team

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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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• 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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• 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, Nfl, Credit

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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, Nfl

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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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• 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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• Every football player knows when his time is up.

  Red Grange

  Football, Player, Nfl

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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, Nfl, Yards

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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, Nfl

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• All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war)

  Otto Graham

  Football, War, Men

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• I love doing what I do.

  Brett Favre

  Football, Nfl

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

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