Nfl Quotations

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.

I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.

My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.

Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. if you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

It's not about talent once you get to the NFL because everyone's got it. It's about being willing to go that extra mile to be the best and that's something that I've always done.

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

You do not have to be convicted or even charged of a crime to be able to demonstrate that you've violated a personal conduct policy, and reflect poorly not only on themselves, but all of their teammates, every NFL player in the league, and everyone associated with the NFL.

What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.

There is no primer for being an NFL owner. It is learn-as-you-go.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.

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.

Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.

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.

When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in.

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.

I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

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

I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

Fox does the NFL a lot like they program the rest of the network. There's sort of a locker room sense of humor that prevails. With ESPN, it's more like a pat-you-on-the-back kind of comedy. I mean, they'll all get on each other a little bit, but it's never mean-spirited.

Every guy has different strengths in the NFL. Receivers are different, running backs are different, but they all have that one thing that they do thats special: that thing that keeps them on the roster every year.

You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

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

We're going to win Sunday. I guarantee it.

You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.

There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.

NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.

Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.

I'm excited to join my brother-in-law Ken Thomson every Tuesday night on SiriusXM to recap all of the awesome NFL action, and to find out what in the Wylde world of sports is going on.

When you get released from the NFL it's not a pleasant experience and I may have sulked for about two or three years. Then I was like, 'You know what? It's time to get back on the wagon.' I have nothing to be ashamed of.

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.

My construction business represents 10 or 20 times what I'll ever invest in football. But from the moment I bought the Chargers, I would become forever known as the owner of that NFL franchise.

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

Do not compare yourself. Find out what God has placed in your ability.

Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to which yours truly belongs - Washington political pundits.

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

At the highest level in the NFL, the pass game is as complex as you can imagine.

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

If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.

It's pretty simple for me; I believe all people are created equal, regardless of their sexuality. To promote respect and acceptance is an important role for NFL players and the NFLPA.

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

In NFL preseason, the coaches don't use 10% of the playbook. They don't game plan. They do nothing. They don't give anything away for the regular season. They try to get everybody safely through it without anybody getting hurt.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.

I don't go to games as much as I used to because of the NFL's Sunday Ticket. So I'll watch the games, take notes.

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.

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all.

Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once there, he's had a unique appreciation of what it took to succeed.

If I was involved with the NFL, I'd seriously consider adopting some of the rules used in Canada. I've heard, unofficially, of course, some NFL club owners have talked about adding a feature or two. The NFL went for the two-point conversion. Professional sport is entertainment, and the CFL, I believe, is ahead of the NFL in that regard.

The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

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.

Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

I think the state of the NFL has a very positive outlook.

Biggest lesson I learned my first year in the NFL is no one gives a crap about what you did last week. This league is about what have you done for me now. That's the NFL. It's also our culture. So you keep working hard because that's the biggest truth about football.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players... that's fading away.

A great guy who is no longer in the league right now who is retired, Kyle Vanden Bosch, I learned a lot from him, and I owe him a lot for my success in the NFL.

I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there's a few people I haven't made mad yet, I want to get them.

The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.

All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.

All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.

Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

It's an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that.

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.

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the medical aspects of the game, and to assess the risks to the students in their charge. Colleges have a moral right to that information for the same reasons.

I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal

It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.

It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.

There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.

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.

If you play in the NFL and start for 10 years, it's not good. It is not good.

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.