Willie Lanier quotes

Willie Lanier quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We had the kind of team that didn't back down from anybody. If they wanted to intimidate us, we could intimidate as well as they could. Our team was too big and too good to intimidate.”
-- Willie Lanier

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“Sometimes I do feel a little pressure, but not that much because we play different positions.”
-- Willie Lanier

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“There is no way that I could have survived if I had not changed my style of play.”
-- Willie Lanier

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“My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.”
-- Willie Lanier

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“I'm not good for you. I don't know why you make me want you so bad. I was angry with myself when I said all that earlier. I was mad because I wanted you in a way I'd never experienced before. Before you, I just wanted to excel in football and school. I wanted my parents to be proud of me. But now, I want other things too. You get to me in a way I don't understand”
“Women's football does have its knockers.”
“I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.”
“When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.”
“I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.”
“I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit. That's how you turn a team around.”

Source : "Run Like Adrian Peterson". Interview with Andrew Daniels, www.menshealth.com. November 14, 2011.
“What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.”
“Is there a short-eared koobish, then?' Mmmyes ...' said J.Lo. 'But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.' We had conversations like these all the time, where I just eventually gave up.”
“Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter, Varla Ventura (2012). “The Ghost in the Picture Room: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection”, p.16, Weiser Books

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