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Lawrence Taylor quotes

Ocupation: Football player

Life: b. February 4, 1959

Birthday: February 4

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You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.

source: - "Lawrence Taylor: Getting Blitzed" By Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 31, 2005.

Topics: Games, Trying, Sake

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I'm a cocky sumb**itch. That's what makes me such a great player.

Topics: Cocky, Player

Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'

Topics: Football, Heart, Reason

And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.

Topics: Strong, World, Pay, Getting Over You

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

Topics: Sports, Kids, Fans, Grandkids, Hard Lessons

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

Topics: Sports, Simple

If I'm going to break them, I'm going to break them both.

source: - Lawrence Taylor, William Wyatt (2016). “My Giant Life”, p.139, Triumph Books

Topics: Sports, Break

LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more.

Topics: Sports, Wilder, Persons

I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in the zone.

Topics: Motivational, Football, Careers

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

Topics: Sports, Jail, Cop

You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system.

source: - "Lawrence Taylor: Getting Blitzed". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 31, 2005.

Topics: Sports, Together, Substance, Banned

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

Topics: Sports, Example, Hopefully

I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

Topics: Sports, Strong, Games, Rules Of The Game

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

Topics: Change, Football, Real, Savagery

“I'll never bowl with him again. After he got a strike, he spiked the ball.”

Topics: Balls, Bowling, Strikes

Most of the games don't let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I've been watching these girls.

source: - "Lawrence Taylor: Getting Blitzed" By Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 31, 2005.

Topics: Girl, Games, Focus

Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.

Topics: Guy, Opponents, Want, Steroid

The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.

Topics: Player, Years, Nfl

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

Topics: Stories, Done, Today

Football is not part of that lifestyle anymore.

Topics: Football, Lifestyle

First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.

Topics: Sports, Player, Firsts, Banned

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

source: - "Lawrence Taylor: Getting Blitzed" By Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 31, 2005.

Topics: Dirty, Play

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.

source: - "Lawrence Taylor: Getting Blitzed". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 31, 2005.

Topics: Motivational, Football, Moving, Blocked

All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was.

Topics: Motivational, Football, Couple

When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.

Topics: Football, Hurt, Morning

Cocaine is totally different than steroids.

Topics: Sports, Different, Cocaine

As players, we always have a way to get back at you.

Topics: Sports, Player, Way

Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.

Topics: Sand, Wells, Quentin

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

Topics: Football, Hurt, Games

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

source: - "Lawrence Taylor: Getting Blitzed" by Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 31, 2005.

Topics: Football, Wanted, Persons

I played one game, and one game played me.

Topics: Games

I have a whole different type of lifestyle.

Topics: Different, Lifestyle, Type

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.

Topics: Trying, Break, Norm

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

Topics: Reading, Character, Men

There are guys who want to shoot the last shot and others who want to pass off. I want that last shot.

Topics: Guy, Want, Lasts

“I'll never bowl with him again. After he got a strike, he spiked the ball.”

Topics: Balls, Bowling, Strikes

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