Nfl Quotes - Page 14

• I love to see my records broken, I really do, you get a chance to relive your life, the whole experience.

  Don Hutson

  Football, Broken, Live Your Life

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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, Hawks, Fields

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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, Guy, Shoulders

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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, Done, Want

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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, Inner Peace

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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, Trying

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• I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I'm going to need a good reason to switch.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Mind, Needs

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• First, you've got to get the job. "Yeah, I can do it," I would say. When I was a kid, I could do anything. Lucky nobody ever asked me if I could fly a jet plane.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Jobs, Kids

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• Know the difference between famous and great.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Differences, Knows

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• When I was a teenager, I was so dumb my mamma knocked me off the porch with a broom. You wish you had so good a mamma.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Teenager, Dumb

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• Somebody told me when Abe Lincoln was a young man, studying by firelight, he said, "I will work hard. I will prepare myself. And my time will come." And you know, that's exactly what I said about myself and football - What do you think? Were Abe and I both just lucky ducks?

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Hard Work, Men

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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, Laughing

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• I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport that I loved, about players and coaches that I respected. I wanted to convey my love of the game through film. And most artists convey their love through art. And my art and my love was expressed through film.

  Steve Sabol

  Sports, Art, Player

  "The "I Am" Q&A". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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• There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.

  Steve Sabol

  New Orleans, Broken, Luck

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.

  Steve Sabol

  Years, People, Creative

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan.

  Steve Sabol

  Heart, Focus, Decision

  "The "I Am" Q&A". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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• You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who was in speech therapy for three years as a child because I had a lisp; and a slow stiff kid from the suburbs who became an All-Pro in the NFL.

  Karl Mecklenburg

  Dream, Children, Kids

  Karl Mecklenburg (2009). “Heart of a Student Athlete: All-Pro Advice for Competitors and Their Families”, p.40, Greenleaf Book Group

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• Defensively, I think it’s important for us to tackle.

  Karl Mecklenburg

  Funny, Thinking, Important

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• Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'

  Paul Pierce

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Greatness, Levels, Expecting

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• Making it to the NFL is a huge accomplishment. Making it in the NFL is a huge accomplishment, but I haven't done that yet. No matter how many games we've played, it's still hard to figure out when you've made it in the NFL.

  Robert Griffin III

  Games, Accomplishment, Matter

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• It's not about talent once you get to the NFL because everyone's got it. It's about being willing to go that extra mile to be the best and that's something that I've always done.

  Robert Griffin III

  Done, Talent, Being The Best

  "Robert Griffin III Prepares For NFL Draft, Talks Peyton Manning From Super Bowl 2012" By Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2012.

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• If somebody mistreats you, treat’em good. That kills’em.

  Bobby Bowden

  Sports, Ems, Killing

  “Bobby Bowden: What I've Learned” by Call Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 30, 2009.

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