Mickens Nfl Quotes

I've been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL. ~ Peyton Manning

About a minute-and-a-half to go. He goes on a down-and-in pass. As soon as he caught it, I really puffed him, and his head snapped and the ball flew, and Chuck Weber fell on it. I clenched my fist, I turned around, and I closed my eyes and I said, 'This f-in game is over.' ~ Chuck Bednarik

Yeah, I had it all mapped out actually. Seriously. I wrote it down. I said, 'When I'm the head coach of the Eagles, I'm going to make sure I get that guy on my team.' And then guy next to me was like, 'You're only the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire.' I said, 'Don't worry about it. Minor details. But it's going to work.' ~ Chip Kelly

Adversity is an opportunity for heroism. ~ Marv Levy

My general rule, which I have followed throughout my coaching career, is that everyone doesn't necessarily get treated the same way, because I'm not sure that's possible. But everyone has to be treated fairly. Moreover, they have to know and trust that they will be treated fairly. Dennis Green, NFL Coach There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over, and over ... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility of being caught off-guard. ~ Karch Kiraly

What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied. ~ Tony Dungy

I want to win a championship. I can't come on this team and demand to be a starter. ~ LaDainian Tomlinson

The fire that burns brightest in the Raiders organization is the will to win. ~ Al Davis

Vision gets the dreams started. ~ Emmitt Smith

The harder we played, the behinder we got. ~ Bum Phillips

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do. ~ Joe Namath

I like to think of myself as the running LT. I like to run up the middle and wear defenses down. It's more exciting in between the tackles. ~ LaDainian Tomlinson

John is a man of his word. And so am I. ~ Bruce Irvin

I see young quarterbacks just coming into the league, and they're throwing screens and layoffs right away. As funny as this might sound, I really learned a lot by going downfield, even in tight coverage. ~ Peyton Manning

I think the talent is there to get to Super Bowl 5. ~ Aaron Rodgers

Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself. ~ Bobby Bowden

I want to be the best player to ever play this game. ~ Adrian Peterson

If I drop dead tomorrow, at least I'll know I died in good health. ~ Bum Phillips

I love doing what I do. ~ Wink Martindale

I've been dealing with being overlooked my whole life. ~ LaDainian Tomlinson

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. ~ Bill Peterson

As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. ~ Barry Sanders

When you begin to lose the fire a little bit and if you're not giving 100 percent out there, then it's time for you to leave because you'll end up getting hurt - I want to be able to walk away on top. ~ Jerry Rice

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win. ~ Terry Bradshaw

I'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team. ~ Adrian Peterson

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to. ~ Tom Landry

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I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's. ~ Alex Karras

I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf. ~ Joe Namath

Arm strength, I think, is a thing that's, like, incredibly overrated in the NFL. ~ Matt Hasselbeck

Peyton was the best, my favorite quarterback growing up. ~ Andrew Luck

This is an opportunity to create a better future for the NFL, to improve the game for our fans, and to expand the economic benefits for the players and teams. Staying with the status quo is not an option. The world has changed for everyone, including the NFL and our fans. We must get better in everything we do ... If both sides compromise and give a little, everyone will get a lot, especially the fans. ~ Roger Goodell

Roger Goodell makes $40 million a year, which more than compensates him for the most difficult and sensitive decision in his nine years as commissioner: How hard to come down on Tom Brady, the best quarterback in NFL history, who Goodell told me last year is a "great ambassador for the game" ~ Gary Myers

As with instant replay, NFL Films' use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facenda was not just a technical breakthrough but a conceptual breakthrough. ~ Tony Verna

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders. ~ Jim Otto

I scored a touchdown on the first reception I made in the NFL and spiked the ball. The instant I did, I felt horrible and couldn't wait for the game to end so I could call Coach Bryant and apologize. He said he didn't even notice, but I never spiked the ball again. ~ Ozzie Newsome

Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway. ~ John Madden

I'm an enigma, an unknown. ~ Emmitt Smith

If the Super Bowl is really the ultimate game, why do they play it again next year? ~ Duane Thomas

I think that while kids are in college they don't think that fitness and nutrition are really important things. But once they get to the NFL it's a job, and just like any other job you've got to be at your best to a certain point, especially with a job like this. You've got to be fit and you've got to eat the right things. ~ Andre Reed

The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners. ~ Bill Walsh

This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet search engine Google can scan a billion Web pages and find the one page that has the exact piece of information you were looking for. It's the reason it's so hard to make money betting on NFL games, and it helps explain why, for the past fifteen years, a few hundred amateur traders in the middle of Iowa have done a better job of predicting election results than Gallup polls have. ~ James Surowiecki

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time. ~ Max McGee

I'd love to give Malcolm the truck. We're going to figure out how to make that happen. ~ Tom Brady

I give NFL quarterbacks a lot of leeway for a couple of years, ~ Steve Young

I guess the way I describe it is when basketball players talk about being in the zone and they feel like they can't miss. That's the way a running back feels when the game is in slow-motion. It feels like every cut is right, every run is going to be at least 10 yards. You see what the defense is doing. You know what they're trying to do to you. It's awesome. ~ LaDainian Tomlinson

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

I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal. ~ Tony Dungy

Listen to what I tell you and do it. If you do, three things can happen: One, it will work and you'll get credit. Two, it won't work and I'll get the blame. Three, you'll do it wrong and you'll be gone. ~ Mike Holmgren