Play Quotes - Page 28

• There's no sauce for play like work.

  Edna Ferber

  Sauce

  Edna Ferber (2014). “A Peculiar Treasure: An Autobiography”, p.288, Vintage

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• The big play comes with the pass.

  Sid Gillman

  Nfl, Bigs

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• That's why you bring in a veteran player. You never know when a player goes down, a guy's got to step up and play.

  Mike Shanahan

  Player, Nfl, Guy

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• When a kid plays football before he attends a class, something is wrong.

  Joe Paterno

  Football, Kids, Class

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• There's always a chance. Somebody has got to want me, and if they don't want me, then what? I want to play. I want to do what I want to do.

  Emmitt Smith

  Nfl, Want, Chance

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• I'm very confident I'm one of the best to ever play the game, but once you talk about the greatest, how can you define greatest?

  Emmitt Smith

  Games, Nfl

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• I'm going to make the playoffs. You can believe that. To never play in the playoffs, that will not be my legacy.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Believe, Nfl, Legacy

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• I am glad that I was given the chance. I knew I could still play at a high level.

  Kurt Warner

  Nfl, Levels, Chance

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• I expected to play well, I expected to lead my team, and I expected to win.

  Kurt Warner

  Team, Winning, Nfl

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• I want to be out there every single snap, every single play.

  Peyton Manning

  Nfl, Want, Snaps

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• If you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly.

  Peyton Manning

  Hard Work, Nfl, Quiet

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• I don't like to play favorites, and I do try to spread the ball around. But there's an old rule: You throw to the guys who get open in practice.

  Peyton Manning

  Practice, Nfl, Guy

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• My job is to play well offensively and help my team score points. So I feel very responsible every time we lose a game.

  Peyton Manning

  Jobs, Team, Games

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• You're always going to be mad about a bad play.

  Colin Kaepernick

  Nfl, Mad

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• I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.

  Andrew Luck

  Team, Order, Nfl

  "The Shutdown Corner Interview: Indianapolis Colts QB Andrew Luck". Interview with Doug Farrar, sports.yahoo.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I want to be the best player to ever play this game.

  Adrian Peterson

  Player, Nfl, Games

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• Anybody who has watched me play knows I'm not one of the fastest guys, but I understand what's going on around me and what to look for. I know what the defense is doing.

  Philip Rivers

  Nfl, Guy, Defense

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• I've been calling plays in the huddle since I was seven.

  Philip Rivers

  Nfl, Calling, Seven

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• Every game's a championship game. When we focus that way, get prepared that way-that this is it, you know, this is the last one, the biggest one-you get ready, you get amped up, you get that laser focus and you're ready to play.

  Russell Wilson

  Games, Nfl, Focus

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• But there was a hockey game where they didn't even play hockey, they just threw the puck aside and started fighting. I saw that and I thought, 'Oh man, I'm a thug?' So I'm really disappointed in being called a thug.

  Richard Sherman

  Fighting, Hockey, Thug

  "Richard Sherman's Perfect Response To Being Called A 'Thug'" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. January 22, 2014.

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• Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.

  Pete Carroll

  Football, Player, Thinking

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• Bill Belichick is the best professional football coach I think ever lived. I'm upset that I played for a plethora of teams and never got an opportunity to play for Bill Belichick.

  Deion Sanders

  Football, Team, Opportunity

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• I think it's relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that's not what we're talking about here with Seattle.

  Bill Belichick

  Team, Thinking, Talking

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• These Seattle Seahawks wide receivers have been called pedestrian, they've been called no-namers, but they always come up with the big play.

  Nate Burleson

  Nfl, Super Bowl, Bigs

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• I don't think anybody in the game over the last several years has made more plays than Richard Sherman.

  Deion Sanders

  Thinking, Years, Games

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