Best Linebacker Quotes

#1. I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats.

Ray Lewis

#2. I want to be recognized as the best-no doubt about it. When they say all-pro middle linebacker, I want them to mean Butkus!

Dick Butkus

#3. In middle school, I played quarterback. I was at a tiny school, so you played offense and defense - I played linebacker, and in high school I stopped playing around my sophomore year because of my acting stuff.

Jesse Plemons

#4. Skyla's back," he continues, "and before she's formally charged with yet another homicide, a few things are going to change around here. For one, your mother and I will be around the house more often because we no longer have to babysit that linebacker your sister tried to force feed her Michelins.

Addison Moore

#5. They give unconditional love and undying loyalty in return for regular meals and an occasional pat on the head.

Jon Winokur

#6. I think that it definitely makes the transition easier being able to know linebacker and having also played on the defensive line. You can kind of know what they're expecting on the back end and what you are kind of expecting from them.

Justin Cole

#7. Linebacker is a lot more detail oriented and you have to know a lot more than a defensive end necessarily would on any given play.

Justin Cole

#8. How can you be in love with someone for forever and not be willing to take a chance when it finally hits you in the face like a linebacker?

Miranda Kenneally

#9. It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.

Gaines Adams

#10. Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?

Richard Rodgers

#11. She wore too much eyeliner then, at age thirteen, and now, at eighteen, she wears so much black under her eyes, she looks like a slutty linebacker raccoon.

A.S. King

#12. Maybe his big build isn't a linebacker's after all; maybe it's a librarian's.

Robin Sloan

#13. I'm very tall, so I like a guy who's bigger than me - it makes me feel feminine and safe. I don't like to be hovering over a guy or feel like a linebacker.

Adrianne Palicki

#14. Footwork is definitely key for a linebacker. We make our money playing laterally. You've got to be able to move side to side and play sideline to sideline. So doing quick feet drills like ladders and keeping your footwork right is important.

Brandon Spikes

#15. I prefer to play inside linebacker.

Lawrence Timmons

#16. Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

Steven Spielberg

#17. Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.

Earl Campbell

#18. I would probably be a linebacker today. I wouldn't be carrying the ball 20 or 25 times a game.

Bronko Nagurski

#19. I feel like as a linebacker or a D-lineman, any cut, it's a man sport
be a man, hit me up high, Hit like rams. You don't see a ram going and cutting another ram's legs. They hit head to head, pad to pad.

Patrick Willis

#20. I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

Wendy Cope

#21. You look at stats for a guy who is a pretty good linebacker, he'll make 100 tackles. You make 100, you're averaging seven or eight tackles a game. If you play every down, that's a good number.

Jon Beason

#22. Ray Lewis, I've grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the game, his love for the game, his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis, from leadership qualities, all that.

Manti Te'o

#23. After all, that's all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance.

Mark Lawrence

#24. I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.

Greg Bryk

#25. I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

Junior Seau

#26. Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false nails, sixteen pounds of make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a 'real' man

Maynard James Keenan

#27. Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.

Miranda Kenneally

#28. Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

Milton Friedman

#29. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing.

Oscar Wilde

#30. Hell was made for the inquisitive.

Saint Augustine

#31. All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.

John Dryden

#32. I've tried to bring the mentality of the outside linebacker to the inside and the rough, tough style of an inside linebacker to the outside. The middle linebacker always has been known as kind of a big plugger. Outside guys are known to be able to run. I just try to make big plays wherever I am.

Junior Seau

#33. I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Hunter S. Thompson

#34. This is what it looks like when someone's fighting for his soul," she said. "He needs his friends to believe in him. The fastest way for us to help make him into a monster is to look at him like he is one.

Jim Butcher

#35. What interests me is the way people regard themselves. When we are 15, we all feel as if we are beginning to become somebody else.

Lise Sarfati

#36. Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.

Walter Payton

#37. Have they all bought Kindles? I have one, and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor! - but come on, I have a lot of free first chapters to get through.

Robin Sloan

#38. A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

Ron Jaworski

#39. [Jim Graham] had been a linebacker at Penn State, and was seriously old-school. I mean, really old-school; like he thought the forward pass was a trick play.

Randy Pausch

#40. Lee Roy was the best college linebacker - bar none. He would have made every tackle on every play if they had stayed in bounds.

Bear Bryant