Nfl Quotes

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

I've always had confidence.

I think there was always that question mark of why am I not in St. Louis anymore? I think everybody had those questions and probably had those perceptions of me.

I've done it for a long time and I didn't expect it to be any different here.

Faith is a strong word in my life. That's one thing my mother has always stressed to me.

God has really blessed me with the ability to put me ahead of the class.

I pray not for victory, but to do my best.

As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I'm not going to slam it in its face.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

I'm much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines.

You are one of a kind, one in a billion, an incredible unique individual. The problem is, so is everybody else.

I'm not a big power-and-strength guy, but I have a lot of balance, and I can take hits and stay on my feet. I control myself real good, shift my weight, and run real low. I do things that people haven't seen some of the running backs in the league do.

Once the game begins, I play to that song in my head. I run to rhythm, and that allows my mind to be free.

There's no fast track, no easy track, especially from where I came from. You try to take the most of it and learn from it and hope others learn from it. That's what it is about.

If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

I love doing what I do.

When Paul Brown talked contract, the championship game was part of it. We took the championship game for granted.

I could throw a pass to a spot as well as anyone who ever lived - But that's a God-given talent. I could never stand back and flick the ball 60 yards downfield with my wrists like Dan Marino does.

Every football player knows when his time is up.

I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.

I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it.

They say that when you're the champs, everybody will try to beat you. Well, I'm glad we're champs, so bring'em on, bring'em all on. If we die, we ain't gonna die running. It's gonna be a fight.

For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

If you understand what the other team is trying to do to stop you, it makes your job easier.

All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.

A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

I played football with my whole body - My hands, my head, my face. I did it all.

My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.

I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.

I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

I don't give players a chance to hit me.

Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, "When are you gonna start running hard?" The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth - Man, I love to run!

I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.

I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.

I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one - and stay healthy.

The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.

You can do more, you can always do more.

No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.

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.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

winning is not everything it is the only thing

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

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

I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.