Top 1200 Nfl Games Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I just always felt I'd be playing football in the NFL - or at least playing for a living.

Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

In the auto industry, I spent years perfecting processes. Now, the successes and failures don't get the kind of publicity obviously NFL football does.

I was the No. 1 player coming into college and I want to be the No. 1 player heading into the NFL. That's definitely one of my goals.

It was January 1983 when we launched 'Frontline' on PBS with 'An Unauthorized History of the NFL.' The program was anchored by Jessica Savitch. We wanted to get attention, and we got it.

I want people to come to Clipper games and smile. I want people to come to Clipper games and be entertained and dance and laugh.

You don't hear about tradition in the NFL, but we have a tradition in Baltimore. It was just an awesome place to be.

When things aren't going as well as you might like them to be, it's always a question as to whether my personality... fits what an NFL quarterback should be. It's not anything I'm not used to.

Some games I'm going to get more blocks or they're going to do more mistakes and give up more baskets but some games I get zero blocks and I affect 20 shots.

Ha Ha Clinton-Dix has been one of the better safeties in the NFL.

I don't deal in the world of fair. The NFL is the no fair league and I experienced that as much as anybody.

It's been a dream to play in the NFL and hopefully after next year that becomes a reality, but I wouldn't pass up being here with my teammates and coaches for anything.

Everyone has kind of a rough transition in the NFL. It's a different kind of scouting.

I would like to take the opportunity today to thank you for your assistance in helping us to reshape the future of Xbox One. You told us how much you loved the flexibility you have today with games delivered on disc. The ability to lend, share, and resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to you. Also important to you is the freedom to play offline, for any length of time, anywhere in the world.

I enjoy watching the NFL, but you've got to have a real passion to make that transition and have a real crack at it.

I don't believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

I think the failure in the NFL has humbled me in the fact that I don't think I'm the best.

The truth of the matter is... somebody is going to die here in the NFL. It's going to happen.

My aunt has this video from when I was 6 years old, no teeth or nothing, and I told my mom and my aunt that I was going to the NFL.

The NFL sort of reminds me of the tobacco companies, pre-'90s, when they kept saying, 'No, there is no link between smoking and damage to your health'.

I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.

Depending on where you're at or the ownership you're working for, some of the college jobs may be better than some in the NFL.

I am honored to be named the 2018 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year and to join the long line of men who have received this prestigious honor.

Well you always want to play against the best. That's what you're going to get in the Super Bowl. To go against guys like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady who I have tons of respect for; I watch their games, I study their games, I try to learn from them. It gets you excited, but hopefully not too excited. Just focus on the game. Then when my career is done then I can look back at it.

Ties in the NFL absolutely suck. Trust me, I was involved with a tie against the San Francisco 49ers when I was with the Rams in 2012 and it felt pointless.

I think a lot of games in Oakland were just time being wasted, for a lack of a better phrase. I felt like I would play in some games that were four quarters, just like every other game, but it didn't feel like I was doing anything. It just felt like I was out there.

If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.

These opportunities don't come around too often. It's quite an honor and a privilege to be able to sit here today saying that I'm a part-owner of an NFL team.

The raw emotion and physical nature of the NFL definitely push a lot of peoples' buttons. It's played once a week, so every game is important.

I've said this time and time again: Dante Scarnecchia is the best offensive line coach in the NFL.

A lot of what you get done in the NFL is by perception. They perceive you as really talented, and they worry about you. You've got to come out of the locker room with something.

I think every person who gets a football scholarship thinks the potential for great success in college - and maybe even a career in the NFL - is possible.

I love football. I'll watch the NFL before I watch any NBA.

I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.

I've had a great time making the transition from playing to talking about the game, and there is no better place to talk football than NFL Network.

All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.

Guys ask me, 'Why are you always smiling?' Are you kidding? I'm in the NFL, that's why!

I've been advised by guys who have played in the NFL and guys who have my best interests.

I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.

I got arrested for a dumb, dumb incident my second year in the NFL.

Commenting on playoffs to determine a national champion: I'm not in favor of 15 games either. I think that's way too much football. The thing that I feel good about is that these guys hung together through 15 games and played hard every week. That's a marvelous tribute to the kids. We just hung in there today and kept playing. It's just been a special feeling all year long.

Every year at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, PFF meets with nearly every team.

I think, when people think of NFL athletes, they forget that they are citizens of this country, that they are bothered by the problems that we all face.

I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films. But there's definitely beauty and art and design in games. I don't think anybody could deny that.

You play 162 games so let's say 100 of them come down to the end where you see the game is out of reach one way or the other. I feel like the other 62 are close games so you're going to be into those at-bats. If you do that, that's 100 at-bats. That's almost a month worth of at-bats where you're not as focused as you might be in those 62.

There were games I would score five and games I would score 30, and sometimes the five points were way more important than the 30.

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.

I have big hopes and big dreams and aspirations to do great things in the NFL.

Once you're under contract with the XFL, you're under contract, regardless of position. We're not trying to be a development league for the NFL.

The NFL is part of the pop culture landscape, so sports fans don't bat an eye when you stop in the middle of a piece to talk about a new movie.

Nobody gets hit in college. You get hit onevery single play in the NFL.

The biggest issue about the height factor is the bias that the NFL has about it.

In the NFL, you've got to get to the Super Bowl, and you've got to win it. That's the evaluation we're all accountable to.

The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software to write the screenplays for our games, but naturally we have things in the script that you would never have in a movie script -- different branches and optional dialogue, for example. But still, when it comes to storytelling and dialogue, they are very much the same.

But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren't crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.

...I do not say, Don't play games or cricket and so forth. By all means play and enjoy them, giving thanks to Jesus for them. Only take care that games do not become an idol to you as they did to me. What good will it do to anybody in the next world to have been the best player that ever has been? And then think of the difference between that and winning souls for Jesus.

From the third grade, I knew that I wanted to play in the NFL. It's pretty cool to see the dream about to come to fruition, but it's just a starting point.

I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player."

I mean, I don't really take a lot of blows. Since I've been 20 years old in the NFL, that's never going to change in my playing style.

I understand how hard every guy in this NFL works, especially at the position, especially at the quarterback position.