Running Back Quotes

• And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

  J. D. Salinger

  Happiness, Running, Grief

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• To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  Tony Dorsett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

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• There were a lot of running backs as good as me. The real difference was that I could focus. I never laid back and relied on natural ability.

  Jim Brown

  Running, Real, Differences

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• The running backs are the strengths of their football team. They have quality players who can do a number of things for their team.

  Greg Schiano

  Football, Running, Team

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• I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.

  Shaun Alexander

  Summer, Running, Games

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• Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

  Earl Campbell

  Running, Shows, Touchdowns

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• Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Running, Nfl

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

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• I don’t want to get too detailed into it, but when you’re a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you’re a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want.

  Barry Sanders

  Running, Athlete, School

  "Barry Sanders talks 'NCAA 13' cover". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.espn.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I'm not a big power-and-strength guy, but I have a lot of balance, and I can take hits and stay on my feet. I control myself real good, shift my weight, and run real low. I do things that people haven't seen some of the running backs in the league do.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Running, Real

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• Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.

  J. D. Salinger

  Running, Grief, Taken

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• I guess the way I describe it is when basketball players talk about being in the zone and they feel like they can't miss. That's the way a running back feels when the game is in slow-motion. It feels like every cut is right, every run is going to be at least 10 yards. You see what the defense is doing. You know what they're trying to do to you. It's awesome.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Basketball, Running, Cutting

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• I feel like every running back should have their own little stamp on the game.

  Arian Foster

  Running, Should Have, Games

  "'Cerebral' Houston RB Arian Foster goes from undrafted to unstoppable". www.foxnews.com. September 16, 2010.

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• I don't know how much things have changed. You still need to be able to run the ball, pick up blitzes and catch the ball out of the backfield. Perhaps you need a running back to do a little bit more or be more versatile today but that is a good thing. People say we get hurt and don't last as long, but it's still an important position and you need everyone in the backfield to be able to contribute.

  Giovani Bernard

  Running, Hurt, Long

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

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• Every guy has different strengths in the NFL. Receivers are different, running backs are different, but they all have that one thing that they do thats special: that thing that keeps them on the roster every year.

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Running, Years, Nfl

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• Here I am as a running back, making a pretty good living, actually doing pretty good.

  Brandon Jacobs

  Running, Here I Am, Good Living

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• To me, when you got a 20-year-old running back or 21-year-old receiver that's just coming out of college and you're out working these guys, age really don't matter. So it's easy for me to see what it is. People say it's all about age, but to me, it's mind over matter.

  Adrian Peterson

  Running, College, Years

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Running back was always my favorite position.

  Barry Sanders

  Running, Nfl, My Favorite

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• I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of nature, the deep well of the womb, silence, or else the lapping of the black waters of death. I wanted to be that night which the remorseless eye illuminated, a night diapered with stars and trailing comets. To be of night so frighteningly silent, so utterly incomprehensible and eloquent at the same time. Never more to speak or to listen or to think.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Stars, Eye

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• It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Football, Running

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• A wide receiver like me wouldn't have won. The quarterback - or even the running back - always wins.

  Patrick Wilson

  Running, Winning, Quarterback

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'd like to be a 5-10, 205-pound running back. I think it's natural for big guys to want to be a little faster.

  Antonio Gates

  Running, Thinking, Guy

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• The history says quarterbacks get paid more than running backs, but I think it depends on the caliber of the player - what you're getting, not just what the position is.

  Reggie Bush

  Running, Player, Thinking

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• For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house it was to salvage photos.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Running, People, House

  "Aleksandar Hemon: A personal history of Sarajevo". Interview with John Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.

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• Some say that I'm their favorite, but I aint hearing none of that. I'm about my team, hoe, Young Money running back

  Drake

  Running, Real, Team

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• I really don't look at comparing things that way because even in a 14-game season, there could be a running back who could have a lot more carries than other running backs.

  Franco Harris

  Running, Games, Looks

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