Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by George Blanda
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American footballer George Blanda.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
I had six brothers and four sisters and I competed with my brothers every day when I was a kid. If you lost in my family, they kidded the pants off you until you won again.
When I look back on my nine years with the Raiders, what comes to mind first is my great association with Al Davis. If it had not been for him I may not have done the things I did once I left Houston. I may not have even kept playing if it weren't for Al. I respected him highly.
I never retired from any of my teams; I was fired.
I think the AFL was capable of beating the NFL in a Super Bowl game as far back as 1960 or '61. I just regret we didn't get the chance to prove it.
Halas was a great coach, but the only problem I had with him, the problem all the players had with him, was that we didn't get paid very much.
When I signed with the Oilers, I felt like a rookie. I was 33.
People watch TV and think a two-foot putt is the greatest thing in the world when a guy knocks it in. But nobody is rushing you. You don't have a center, you don't have a holder. You don't have 100,000 people screaming at you.
Favre is smarter than the coaches. Most of those coaches have never played pro football, and they're second-guessing him?
The owners need to have some protection against players jumping from team to team. The fans have the right to expect some continuity on the team they support from year to year.
I want to play as long as I can contribute.
I don't believe in getting mad if a guy misses a block and I get hit. I don't yell at the players. Everybody gets beat sometime.
I sat on the bench and then came in and made a pass or two.
Things never change in football, it's still blocking and tackling and execution, and having an experienced quarterback who is patient enough to take what the defense gives him.
When I was playing and playing real well I didn't get any publicity.
If your body can take it, you can play forever if management wants you. But if you start missing field goals and losing games, then you are not long for the world.
The game that I remember the most was playing against Cleveland in 1970. We were down 20-13 and I came in and we got a touchdown and then we got a field goal in the last three seconds.
I like beating old standardbearers of the N.F.L.
I've had every experience you can imagine. I've been cheered and booed.
I'm confident, but I don't think I've ever been complacent.
Age is a frame of mind.
It's very sweet to win against people who let you go.
If people can identify with me in a good way and get some inspiration out of what I've done, that's good. Then football's all worthwhile.
Once you quit football, you might want to come back. But if you sit out a year, you're finished.
Being a pro opens a lot of doors. It enables you to meet a lot of people. By taking advantage of the opportunities, the future is unlimited.
You know, Billy Cannon is very fast.
They don't have to tell me what life is like in a ghetto.
I learned a long time ago that you only have a few friends in this world - your wife and family and a very few friends.
The one record I was happy to get rid of was the one for the most interceptions, when Brett Favre got that one.
I wish I could have played more.
In football, like any other sport, you have to prove yourself in every game.
We did all the strategy right on the field. Today, the coaches call all the plays, so all the quarterbacks have to do is perform. They are more or less programmed.
I'm a hardened old guy. I've been cut in so many ways and dumped on by so many teams, I've been through it all, but I'd do it all over.
It tickles me to beat George Allen.
Halas used to tell his players that football is what you make of it. It should not be what defines you, but football should be a stepping stone for what you achieve in the rest of your life.
I would work all day and then go the gym in the evening. I owed it to myself to take care of myself.
Hell, the important thing is to do what you want to do, and give it 110 percent.
Anything I do, I want to win.
I have no animosity toward Al Davis or John Madden.
I hate to lose. I can't stand to lose.
They serve a lot of good filets around the country.
Life isn't that complicated. I'm completely happy playing football. I'm happy to get out of the coal mines.
What happened last week doesn't matter. That's history. You have to make history every day.
I've got my own philosophy. People who write books have different philosophies. You read too many people and you get screwed up.
I sat out the 1959 season.
No one ever dreams about being a backup quarterback.
I've got to watch what I eat. Seems like if I even look hard at food I gain weight.
The Super Bowl wasn't that big. It was just a game.
All records are made to be broken.
Winning is the name of the game - any game.
You never want to give it up. You always think you're capable, always think you're better than the other guy.
Certainly I cut up Halas every chance I get. He decided that I was through in 1959.
I talk common sense.
People are forever knocking kicking, but it's not easy, believe me. Ask Scott Norwood when he missed the field goal in the Super Bowl.
I hate when people lump me in with kickers that lasted a long time. I have respect for guys like Morten Andersen, but I was a football player, not just a kicker.
I worked my way through college by throwing passes for the University of Kentucky.
It takes hard work, dedication, discipline and a positive attitude to get to the top - in business or in sports.
I knew I would be cut one day. But I never thought I would retire.
I've worked for everything I've got.
Playing on the same team with Sid Luckman and Bulldog Turner and against people like Sammy Baugh, those were nostalgic days for me.
Competition is what drives me.
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