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• I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks in the NFL. "Sack the quarterback." That was nice. I thought it was lots better than saying, "Jones tackles the QB behind the line for another loss of yardage ..." It had a ring to it, and it caught on with the sports writers. But I tell you, doing it was a lot more fun than talking about it.

  Deacon Jones

  Sports, Football, Fun

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• We didn't win a Super Bowl together, and that's something I'll always regret - not knowing what that feels like. But you and I have won more games together than any quarterback and coach combination in the history of the NFL.

  Dan Marino

  Football, Regret, Winning

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• No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds.

  Robert Griffin III

  Football, Nfl, Broken

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• The mold that everyone is seeing nowadays is kind of the Aaron Rodgers mold - I try to mix and match from the different quarterbacks.

  Robert Griffin III

  Football, Nfl, Trying

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• I'm always studying. I probably wrote the most papers of any college quarterback.

  Robert Griffin III

  Football, College, Nfl

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• That just shows you their type of class and integrity. They claim to be first class and the best organization. It's an embarrassment and it shows the lack of class that they really have.....The Eagles would be undefeated right now with Green Bay's quarterback. We'd probably be in a much better position with him on the team (instead of present Eagles quarterback Donavon McNabb).

  Terrell Owens

  Integrity, Team, Athlete

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• The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard

  Al Davis

  Down And, Hard

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• Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Team, Needs, Ifs

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• As a quarterback, obviously, you're going to be put in the forefront whether you like it or not, and if you're not then you're not doing your job.

  Robert Griffin III

  Jobs, You Like It, Ifs

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• There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.

  Joshilyn Jackson

  Jesus, School, Alabama

  Joshilyn Jackson (2010). “Backseat Saints”, p.227, Hachette UK

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• I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.

  Robert Griffin III

  Play, Color, Games

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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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• If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks.

  Ronnie Lott

  Running, School, Play

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 16, 2003.

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• I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.

  Bob Seger

  Track, Strings, Runners

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• I know I'm the No. 1 quarterback for the Washington Redskins, and that's all that matters in my heart. That's all I wanted. I wanted a team that wanted me, and I found that.

  Robert Griffin III

  Team, Heart, Matter

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• I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.

  Tom Brady

  Jobs, Team, Greatest Fear

  Interview with Jimmy Traina, www.si.com. June 21, 2012.

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• I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

  Andrew Luck

  Thinking, Personality, Progression

  "Q&A: Colts QB Andrew Luck talks leadership, staying healthy... and acting". Interview with Eric Edholm, sports.yahoo.com. August 26, 2014.

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• Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Gary Sheide: The image of Joe Namath. He even had Joe's number. Had just a great feel and touch for the game. A great athlete who could play all the sports. He was more of a streak guy than any of them. He could miss two or three passes and then get hot and hit ten straight. He was the one who got it all started.

  LaVell Edwards

  Sports, Athlete, Winning

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• A year and a half ago, there were people who questioned whether Vince Young could be a major college quarterback.

  Mack Brown

  College, Years, People

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• You have to have quarterbacks who can keep up with everybody else. And I'm not saying that just black quarterbacks can do that, but more black quarterbacks are given a chance because they fit the mold.

  Daunte Culpepper

  Black, Mold, Chance

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• I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Team, Thinking, Media

  "Limbaugh resigns from NFL show". www.espn.com. October 2, 2003.

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• "And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11". So I just picked baseball."

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Basketball, Baseball

  "What It Takes: Willie Mays". Interview with Alice Winkler, learningenglish.voanews.com. August 25, 2017.

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• As much as I'd like to think I'm an expert in quarterbacks I'm probably not. But, I think college quarterbacks are put in positions where they have to do a lot of the things that are done at the professional level. The collegiate quarterback probably does on average a little more running than a pro quarterback. But outside of that, I think they're faced with some of the same difficult decisions and choices.

  Ted Thompson

  Running, College, Thinking

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• As long as we win games and I harass the quarterback, however I do it, we're good.

  Dwight Freeney

  Winning, Games, Long

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• One of the reasons I wanted to write a memoir was because I'm tired of telling my story. [Laughs] So I can say, here, read it, this is everything that happened. There are a bunch of cool stories of the transition of me becoming a receiver from a quarterback in college to being a special teams guy, a role player, to working my way to the role I've earned now.

  Julian Edelman

  Team, Writing, Tired

  Source: wwd.com

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