Nfl famous quotes
05-17-2025
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Tonight is not a setback. It's just a learning experience.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I know the pressure I'm under. I know who I'm following.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Playing behind a first-ballot Hall of Famer, who also is the all-time record holder for consecutive starts by a quarterback, it's a different mind-set. You just have to challenge yourself in ways that you never challenged yourself before.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I think very highly of myself. I think I'm capable of a lot of things on the field.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I think the guys are starting to rally around my leadership style and the way I do things. I've been waiting for this opportunity my whole life.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I know a lot of friends and family who were Joe Montana fans, where it didn't matter how well Steve Young did. They weren't going to cheer for him because he wasn't Joe Montana.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I'm not playing for anybody but the guys in this locker room.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I think the talent is there to get to Super Bowl 5.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Aaron Rodgers, starting quarterback - that just has a good ring to it.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I've always been supremely confident in my abilities. But the biggest confidence boost is when the guys around you, you feel like they have confidence in you.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I want us to be a connected team-on and off the field.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
The butterflies I get are not if somebody boos me in the crowd, or somebody talks trash about me during the week, or somebody on ESPN rips me. It's the pressure that I'm putting on myself.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback list.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
As a man of faith, God doesn't bring you to things that you can't get through. He doesn't put you in a spot and then leave you out to dry.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I want to be the best player to ever play this game.
-- Adrian Peterson -
When I go out on the field, I just put it in my mind that I'm playing for my family.
-- Adrian Peterson -
I want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.
-- Adrian Peterson -
I'm really not vocal and expressive, but I'm starting to get more comfortable to open up.
-- Adrian Peterson -
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.
-- Adrian Peterson -
It feels good to give back to the people who support you.
-- Adrian Peterson -
People say I'm injury-prone but that's definitely not true.
-- Adrian Peterson -
I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.
-- Adrian Peterson -
I'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team.
-- Adrian Peterson -
I've been running like this since I was seven.
-- Adrian Peterson -
I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.
-- Adrian Peterson -
No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.
-- Al Davis -
If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.
-- Al Davis -
Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.
-- Al Davis -
I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium.
-- Al Davis -
I said to NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, 'You realize that's the first time anybody associated with the league has made that connection?' And I remember, he was a litttle... annoyed. He was annoyed.
-- Alan Schwarz -
To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.
-- Amos Alonzo Stagg -
No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth.
-- Amos Alonzo Stagg -
Is this my best team ever? I won't know that for another 20 years or so.
-- Amos Alonzo Stagg -
Peyton was the best, my favorite quarterback growing up.
-- Andrew Luck -
I think the preseason helps a lot, just to feel a little bit about the speed of the game.
-- Andrew Luck -
I've been lucky enough to be around some great coaches, all the way from Pop Warner to now.
-- Andrew Luck -
Hopefully one day I can be up there with Peyton in terms of history.
-- Andrew Luck -
The way football is being played currently, that I have seen, it's dangerous. It's dangerous and it could impact their long-term mental health. You only get one brain.
-- Ann McKee -
Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out — whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies,
-- Anthony Romero -
Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.
-- Ara Parseghian -
He runs like a camel. A really pissed off camel.
-- Art Donovan -
I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.
-- Barry Sanders -
It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.
-- Barry Sanders -
A lot of times I did lose yards on a run, but it wasn't for lack of trying.
-- Barry Sanders -
As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
-- Barry Sanders -
I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
-- Barry Sanders -
It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
-- Barry Switzer -
The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.
-- Barry Switzer -
I remember one point seeing I had like 60-some different cell phones. I know I only use one.
-- Bernie Kosar -
I'm not really worried about the other 31 teams.
-- Bill Belichick -
Well this week's all about Seattle, so we've been doing our best to prepare for the Seahawks. I'm doing that, our team's doing that and we'll be ready to go Sunday. That's our focus.
-- Bill Belichick -
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
-- Bill Parcells -
I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.
-- Bill Parcells -
You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
-- Bill Parcells -
Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.
-- Bill Parcells -
There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
-- Bill Parcells -
I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
-- Bill Parcells -
I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
-- Bill Parcells -
Strong leaders don't plead with individuals to perform.
-- Bill Walsh -
One of the common traits of outstanding performers-coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting system-is that a rejection, that is, defeat, is quickly forgotten, replaced eagerly by pursuit of a new order, client, or opponent.
-- Bill Walsh -
Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
-- Bill Walsh -
Afford each person the same respect, support, and fair treatment you would expect if your roles were reversed. Deal with people individually, not as objects who are part of a herd-that's the critical factor.
-- Bill Walsh -
Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.
-- Bill Walsh -
Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it's completely crazy is completely crazy.
-- Bill Walsh -
Don't run too fast through life. You only have one.
-- Bo Jackson -
The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain.
-- Bob Fitzsimmons -
I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.
-- Bobby Bowden -
Something has to happen that you can't coach.
-- Bobby Bowden -
There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.
-- Bobby Bowden -
He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I'm afraid I'd wilt on the vine, too.
-- Bobby Bowden -
Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.
-- Bobby Bowden -
I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
-- Bobby Bowden -
Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.
-- Bobby Bowden -
I call him Alshon. He calls me Demaryius Thomas.
-- Brandon Marshall -
Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.
-- Brett Favre -
If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.
-- Brett Favre -
In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
-- Brett Favre -
If Russell Wilson gets outside of the protection and can scramble around, New England loses. If the Patriots keep him in the pocket, New England wins.
-- Brian Billick -
I would probably be a linebacker today. I wouldn't be carrying the ball 20 or 25 times a game.
-- Bronko Nagurski -
Losing is easy. It's not enjoyable, but it's easy.
-- Bud Wilkinson -
Trade him for a six pack; it doesn't even have to be cold.
-- Buddy Ryan
