Best Football Quotes - Page 6

• When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Caring, Nfl

  "Q&A with Jim Brown". Interview with Charles Robinson, www.yahoo.com. November 30, 2006.

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• Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Running, Player

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• If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Integrity, Believe

  "Jim Brown: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 2, 2008.

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• I don't teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that's not it. You don't have to be number 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Kids, Organization

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• I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Nfl, Choices

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• The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Lying, Nfl

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• Give me a 6 pack, half-hour of rest and lets go play them again - We can beat them.

  Jack Lambert

  Letting Go, Football, Play

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• I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Children, Dad

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• I guess Madden had seen everything with out group, and everybody else had seen everything. (After coming to practice field riding a horse and wearing a German WWI helmet painted silver and black)

  Ted Hendricks

  Football, Horse, Practice

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• You can run on a football field but you can't hide out there.

  Sam Huff

  Football, Running, Nfl

  Sam Huff, Kristine Setting Clark (2011). “Controlled Violence: On the Field and in the Booth”, p.3, Triumph Books

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• I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.

  Michael Irvin

  Sports, Football, Writing

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• There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Nfl, Hawks

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• I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Nfl, Guy

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• When it comes to your life's work, you can't take yourself too seriously. Even Jesus had an occasional joke with the boys, take walking on water, for instance - but there's a time and place for fun. Jesus never faltered when it came time to tip over the money stalls or to take his hard walk up the mountain.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Jesus, Fun

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• If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Nfl, Done

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• You hear all this stuff about inner peace. Hey, there's nothing wrong with it, but I say, hit that line hard. Crack that book - Do your very best all the time and inner peace will take care of itself. The Deacon guarantees it.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Book, Nfl

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• I believe that if you die trying to be your best, the world is still a better place.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Believe, Nfl

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• How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love of cross-dressing. Call me unenlightened, but I started to laugh.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Men, Nfl

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• I never was very big on praying for victory. For God to give a big win to the Denver Broncos, wouldn't He have to take it away from somebody else, say, the Green Bay Packers?

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Winning, Nfl

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• I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

  Brett Favre

  Football, Successful, Player

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• I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

  Dan Marino

  Nfl, Needs, Motivated

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• Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

  Dan Marino

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

  Troy Aikman

  Sports, Football, Games

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• I've always viewed myself as an achiever. I need to achieve for myself.

  Troy Aikman

  Football, Nfl, Needs

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• I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Angel, Nfl

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