Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Adam Vinatieri
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Adam Vinatieri.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Every time you step on the field you have to reestablish and re-prove yourself.
You've got to trust your steps, trust your guys that are on the field with you, and when the ball is on the ground, you've got to do that every single time.
As a football player, as a kid and as a professional athlete the moment of playing in the Super Bowl and winning a Super Bowl, that's what you play your whole career for.
I don't think past experiences guarantee anything and I don't think you can rest on your morals.
I first learned about kicking under pressure in 1996, my rookie year with the Patriots. I was signed as a free agent by a team that already had Matt Bahr, one of the best kickers around. To win the job, I had to show coach Bill Parcells that I could make kicks when they counted. That process started in training camp.
I was at the crossroads of my life when I was 7 years old.
I think the most important asset to kicking is being mentally headstrong.
Proof is the product that you put on the field.
Coming from a small South Dakota school, it was a different route to get to the NFL. I went from South Dakota State to the World League of American Football with the Amsterdam Admirals, and fortunately I did well enough there that the New England Patriots decided to sign me and give me a chance.
The older you get, the more difficult it is to keep your body right.
Preparation meets opportunity, and that causes success if you're prepared to do your job and you practice a lot, more times than not you're going to be successful.
I guess, for me, the ultimate goal is to help me team win games every time I step on the field.
I'm a Red Sox fan, but I still have a lot of respect for Mariano Rivera, who's the best closer of all-time.
Obviously this all-time leading scorer thing I knew was out there and I thought, 'Man, if I stay healthy, I would like to reach that goal.'
Kansas City might be the loudest stadium that I've played in.
Coach Parcells challenged me a lot in my rookie year, and not just in games. Almost every day in practice, he'd stand right beside me as he called for the field-goal team to take the field.
In the end, the Super Bowl is just a football game. You try to take a couple of big, deep breaths and convince yourself it's just another game. You try to, anyway.
I've played with some of the best that have ever played, obviously. I don't know if there is anybody that is a better technician than Peyton Manning. Tom Brady is another quarterback that I was fortunate enough to play with for a bunch of years.
I'm always my worst critic.
I really don't want to be a journeyman.
I think every time you step on the field you have a certain amount of pressure on you to succeed.
To be able to play a couple of decades, I never thought I'd play that long.
I don't have any aspirations to play until I'm 50 years old.
I've kicked a lot of balls over the years.
People think kickers in general kick field goals. But kickers are actually good athletes; we run and work out just like the rest of the football team.
Selective amnesia is a good thing to have. So is good focus.
I think there's always mental and physical aspects of football.
I know my body needs to have the proper nutrition so that I can keep kicking at a high level. The same goes with sleep.
Making the playoffs is hard to come by, so if you can help contribute to your team's success it's always a successful time.
Will it make the game safer for people by moving the extra point back to a 43-yarder? If anything, players are going to rush harder because they're thinking, 'That far of a field goal-type try, we have to go after blocking it more.'
The X's and O's with Bill Belichick is pretty amazing.
I'd love to be on 'Man vs. Wild.'
I think you can develop your ability to be clutch, if that's the word that you will use, your ability to focus and to be able to block out all the external stuff.
I had great grades. Why? Because I studied twice as long and twice as hard as everybody else.
Eleven wins is hard to come by.
Sometimes we all need a little time to decompress and think about stuff.
I don't know if I'm a clutch hunter, but I'm an avid one.
Anytime I'm on the field, I need to make every kick that's in front of me.
I love the Irsay family, but I understand this is a business.
Super Bowl kicks, those are the most memorable moments.
Ask a receiver, can we take his gloves off because he's catching the ball too well? Nobody is going to be overly happy about that.
If you want to talk about potential risk, more guys get injured on a field goal than extra point.
None of us should assume stuff.
I think anybody that has had a bad game, or, I dunno, I guess if you go out golfing and you hook a couple balls, are you thinking about it until you get it figured out?
I suppose any person who's played somewhere for a certain amount of time and then has the opportunity to go back and just reminisce a little bit, maybe it holds a different feeling than some of the other places.
When you have an opportunity to help your team in crunch time - as a kicker - that's a dream come true.
I have to make sure I get eight hours of solid sleep a night.
I get to put on a helmet, go out in front of 70,000 people and play a kids game. And they pay me to do it.
Indianapolis is home to me and my family.
Obviously it's a statistics game.
I don't think any of us are above the ability to change football from what it is.
If you do something enough with purpose long enough, you're eventually going to get really good at it.
I'm enjoying watching my kids grow and play sports. That's a ton of fun.
I think if I take care of my body it should continue to work the same way.
If anything, make a 50-yard field goal worth four points instead of three.
The only number I care about is the scoreboard.
In golf, there are times when you hit a ball so perfectly that you never feel the ball leave your club.
I feel that as long as I'm an asset and not a liability I'm still loving the game as much as I ever have.
Obviously we're all our own biggest critics.
I think the thing is that kickers are getting better.
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