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"Some people think
football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude.
I can assure them it is much more serious than that." "Gentleman, this is
a football." "There will always
be hope for our country as long as more people watch 'Monday Night
Football' than 'Friends.'" "Update: Last
week 4.7 million more people watched 'Friends' than 'Monday Night
Football.' I think I'm going to move to Canada." "A lot of fans
were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was,
I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't
have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next
year." "We can't run.
We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass.
We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football
team right now." "He was too small
for football and he got tired of sitting on the bench all the
time." "At the base of
it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone
down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely
linked with contact." "Baseball is what
we were, football is what we have become." "Confidence is
a very fragile thing." "Like many athletes,
I played in college for the chance to play in the pros. In the
years since I retired, I’ve come to realize that the education
I got in college was for life. I will have it forever and for
that I am incredibly grateful." "George was watching
NFL playoff "What’s the worst
thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence." "Tom Landry wore a
coat, a tie, a hat and an expression that revealed nothing as
he stood on the sideline, arms folded, watching his Dallas Cowboys
at work. Hockey pucks show more emotion. He was the Great Stoneface,
but nobody gives you grief about that if you go to five Super
Bowls and win a couple of them." "Setting a goal
is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving
it and staying with that plan. " "I learned that
if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you
can make it." "You don't have to
win it, just don't lose it." "Playing football in
the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast." "Tis the day before
Christmas and all through the league, The upcoming playoffs are
filled with intrigue. Who will be left standing when it's all
said and done? Who will proclaim, 'We did it, we won!'?" "Iowa and Minnesota
play for a pig, a statuette rendition of the actual brother of
a porcine star of a Will Rogers movie. I would like to remind
you that this is, on balance, a marvelous nation. " "Football incorporates
the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated
by committee meetings." "I am delighted
to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But
I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end
of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing
well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell
you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect
or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a
mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty
bad master. " "So instead of the
Super Bowl, we've got the Stupor Bowl. Two once-proud teams, now
0-4 and stumbling through the season like zombies. And if you
think the Cowboys are bad (and they are), the Redskins are so
bad that every few plays you have to put a mirror under thieir
noses to make sure they're still breathing." "The honor of my race,
family and self is at stake. Everyone is expecting me to do big
things. I will. My whole body and soul are to be thrown recklessly
about the field. Every time the ball is snapped, I will be trying
to do more than my part...Fight low, with your eyes open and toward
the play. Watch out for crossbucks and reverse end runs. Be on
your toes every minute if you expect to make good. Jack." "In short, in
life, as in a foot-ball game, the principle to follow is: Hit
the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard!" "Baseball and
football are very different games. In a way, both of them are
easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy
if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were
a little more crazy—and a little more patient." "Watching football
is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I
can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the
hell I spent an afternoon doing it." "If my mother put on
a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same
as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way.
And I love my mother." "It is better to give
a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to
run right through them." "No talking. Talking
doesn't play football, talking isn't going to make you practice
harder or play harder." "When I get the ball,
for some reason I see holes. I'm not really sure how." "No pro football player
should die of heatstroke, any more than cholera, in this day and
age if the most basic attention is paid and precautions are taken." "Distance running
to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field.
And you stopped each lap to take your pulse." "I just wrap my arms
around the whole backfield and peel 'em one by one until I get
to the ball carrier. Him I keep." "My knees look like
they lost a knife fight with a midget." "When it's third and
ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey
drinkers every time." "I wouldn't ever set
out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important
—like a league game or something." "When in doubt,
punt!" "Gentlemen, it
is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football." "The road to Easy
Street goes through the sewer." "How'd you like
that one, God?" "A
good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are." "It's
probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver
behind you and you're driving too slow. It's not the most pleasant
thing." "Maybe
a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own
laundry." "What's
one more torpedo in a sinking ship." "Excuse
me, but it's always been an emotional game. Did Sam Huff do a dumb
dance when he knocked down Jim Brown? Did Walter Payton need to
celebrate all those touchdowns? But now, with players having a highlight
mentality, it's out of control." "I
was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other
guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing. " "Football
is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for
nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to
work hard, and that's it."
"That
Jim Brown. He says he isn't Superman. What he really means is that
Superman isn't Jimmy Brown!" "We
were sitting around figuring out how this team came together and
we realized that we are a collection of southern California rejects
and Oregon white trash." "Hey,
we're like soldiers. Would you go to the Roman army and ask them
if they thought they were going to win the battle? If I didn't think
we could win, I wouldn't be here. I'd stay home and get fat." "I think
the Civil War should be played in Corvallis every year. It's an
ugly game, played against an ugly team, in an ugly stadium, in an
ugly town. " "Everyone
has their nightmares of the Donut Bowl." "I remember
the Fog Bowl here in 1993. At about halftime, the fog rolled in
and just covered Autzen Stadium. The fog was so thick that fans
sitting on the north side couldn't see the press box on the south
side." "At
the end of practice, instead of running wind sprints or something,
we always ran this drill called the 'Burma Road,' which was a God-awful
drill where you had to run into big blocking dummies and jump over
them. He'd just run you until you didn't have anything left. There
was always that fear that you might have to try it another time.
Naturally, you associated the 'Burma Road' with a loss." "I got
into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost,
you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water
boy, and then me. "You're
kind of numb after 50 shots to the head." "It’s
not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight
in the dog." "What
about football? Is it a sport or a concussion?" See 10k Truth's Links to Our Favorite Sports Columnists
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