Nfl Quotes - Page 29

• In the NFL they talk about "contracts," but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that.

  Eric Dickerson

  Mean, Cutting, Agreement

  "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

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• In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.

  Eric Dickerson

  Running, Years, Three

  "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

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• Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.

  Paul Allen

  Sports, Football, Team

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• The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

  Michael Lewis

  Football, Business, Bears

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• My first two years in the CFL, all I thought of was getting back to the NFL - it was like 'I'll put my time in up here and go back.' Then I went and signed a nice contract in Calgary and was like, 'Hey, I can make a living up here, this is great football, and I'm having a blast.

  Doug Flutie

  Football, Nice, Years

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• When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in.

  Doug Flutie

  Years, Doors, Today

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• I think the state of the NFL has a very positive outlook.

  Roger Goodell

  Thinking, Positive Outlook, States

  "Commissioner Roger Goodell on the State of the NFL; Gridiron Greats Lynn Swann and Jerry Kramer Relive Super Bowl Memories". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2010.

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• It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.

  Roger Goodell

  Privilege, Wanted

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• Guys are just too fast and too big in the NFL.

  Josh Hopkins

  Guy, Bigs

  "Josh Hopkins Talks Lebanon, the NFL Draft, and Phone Sex With Cougar Town Fans". Interview with Christian Chung, www.amc.com. April, 2011.

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• It was another day to go to work, and try to play and play well.

  Ray Nitschke

  Play, Trying, Another Day

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• I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.

  Bill Parcells

  Football, Thinking, People

  "From XLIII: An interview with Bill Parcells". Interview with Nick Friedell, sports.yahoo.com. January 31, 2009.

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• We're not going to do anything different for this game since we're not treating this game any different than another game. Every game is a championship game for us, so we'll treat this one, the last one and the next one exactly the same. And that goes for our practices leading up to it as well.

  Pete Carroll

  Practice, Games, Different

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• John is a man of his word. And so am I.

  Bruce Irvin

  Men

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• I don't go to games as much as I used to because of the NFL's Sunday Ticket. So I'll watch the games, take notes.

  Steve Sabol

  Sunday, Games, Tickets

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

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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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• I've been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL.

  Peyton Manning

  Sports, Reality, Forever

  Farewell Press Conference -- Indianapolis Colts, delivered 7 March 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana

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• When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Pounds, Linemen

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• I think the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion.

  Mark Cuban

  Thinking, Years

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• I don't think there's any question that the UFL or any other league that wants to challenge the NFL can have an impact. The demand for professional football is off the charts.

  Mark Cuban

  Football, Thinking, Impact

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• The last time I saw this many doctors was in 1982 at the NFL Combine. They flew me in, put me in a nice hotel and took great care of me. All you have to do is just pick up the phone and call P.A.S.T. and they will do the rest for you. I am very proud of the P.A.S.T. program.

  Rob Brown

  Nice, Doctors, Phones

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