Defensive Backs Quotes

• The two biggest things to understand when you're tracking the ball as a defensive back is your position on the field and understanding that once the ball is in the air you become the receiver. Too many young defensive backs worry about the receiver catching it or what the receiver is doing instead of focusing on what they should be doing. Just go out and make the play yourself, don't worry about him. Know where the ball is and attack it. Put yourself in position to bat it or catch it and make the play.

  Antonio Cromartie

  Air, Play, Two

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• You have to use your mind n the NFL. Every player is smarter. Defensive backs bluff and disguise coverages to try to fool you.

  Chad Ochocinco

  Player, Nfl, Mind

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• Defensive backs are always trying to kill me, so I'm trying to get them first.

  Hines Ward

  Always Trying, Firsts, Kill Me

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• You want bold? Ask the hundreds of defensive backs I ran over during my career if they think I'm bold.

  Jerome Bettis

  Thinking, Careers, Want

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• Night Train Lane was the best defensive back to ever play the game. I tried to pattern my game after him because he was the best. He could have played any one of the four (secondary) positions. I've never seen a defensive back hit the way he hit - I mean take them down, whether it be Jim Taylor or Jim Brown.

  Herb Adderley

  Mean, Night, Games

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• Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.

  Jerry Rice

  Player, Guy, Technique

  "The Shutdown Corner Interview: Jerry Rice". Interview with Doug Farrar, sports.yahoo.com. August 4, 2010.

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• The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

  Hale Irwin

  Football, Independent, Thinking

  "Hale Irwin honored with Nicholson Award, talks golf and football". www.denverpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I like using one QB. If we have two that are relatively equal, then we can't afford to have one on the bench. They need to be on the field at running back, receiver or defensive back. I'm not going to waste an athlete on the sidelines.

  Alan Chadwick

  Running, Athlete, Two

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• It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back.

  Jacoby Ellsbury

  Football, Fun, Able

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