Football Quotes - Page 22

• Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Play, Skills, Two

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• I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Hurt, Nice, Kids

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• Football comes naturally to me, but basketball is a challenge, that's why I like it so much.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Basketball, Challenges

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• I love football. The games are a pure rush. By the time I'm done playing, I want to be among the best tight ends ever to play the game.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Games, Play, Done

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• It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Play, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Player, Firsts, Football Player

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• If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.

  Chad Ochocinco

  Jail, Drug, Three

  Chad Ochocinco, Jason Cole (2009). “Ocho Cinco: What Football and Life Have Thrown My Way”, p.228, Crown Archetype

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• Football is my life. There is no question about that.

  Chad Ochocinco

  Fossils

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• In football, you're taught to react by being aggressive, taught to react with violence. If you can't separate that on the field and off the field, you're going to be in a lot of trouble in your life.

  Troy Polamalu

  Fields, Violence, Taught

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• I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.

  Troy Polamalu

  Pride, Wife, Trying

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• The greatest thing for me football-wise is that it's a test of will.

  Troy Polamalu

  Wise, Tests

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• America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Country, Real

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• I have a great family. I can call them and they don't want to talk just football They want to find out how my day went outside of football.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Want, Great Family, I Can

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• Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Basketball, Senior, First Love

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• I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Winning, Mvp, Games

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• All I have to do is play football now.

  Vince Young

  Play

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• Trust me-the day I'm not into football, I'll walk away.

  Edgerrin James

  Trust Me, Walks

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• Football is more important to me than money right now.

  A. J. Hawk

  Important, Right Now

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• I really find myself doing a lot better when I'm injured, so sometimes I look forward to it. This is the style that I play-being physical, running the football, making adjustments on the pass, avoiding the rush. Those sorts of things go with the total package of a quarterback.

  Steve McNair

  Running, Play, Style

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• Football is what I love, and I know I can do it, too.

  Joey Harrington

  I Can Do It, Knows, Can Do

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• What I try to do is create an energy, create an excitement, but at the same time keep everybody focused and realize it's still just a game, that we have to move the football.

  Joey Harrington

  Moving, Games, Trying

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• Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a reach. The two skills are just so different. And, by the way, I get more nervous playing piano.

  Joey Harrington

  Creativity, Skills, Two

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• I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.

  Hines Ward

  Player, Thinking, Hell

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• In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

  Adam Dunn

  Baseball, Single Mom, Games

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• At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

  Adam Dunn

  Baseball, Player, Thinking

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