Top 88 Best Nfl Quotes
#1. I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.
Shaquille O'Neal
#2. Michelle Tafoya - best NFL sideline reporter - period. She is always prepared and professional.
Megan Alexander
#3. I am so thankful and appreciative of being a part of this franchise and playing in front of the best fans in the NFL. I will be back.
Eric Berry
#4. God has brought me this far. He has laid out a phenomenal path for me. And I can't do anything but thank him.
Colin Kaepernick
#5. Tony Gonzalez is one of the best ever and changed the way tight ends have transitioned themselves from college to the NFL. He can do a little bit of everything. He's a guy who you want to model yourself after.
Virgil Green
#6. 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.
Steve Sabol
#7. Hmm, the best thing about being in the NFL? In America it's the No.1 sport; it's exciting, fun, so to me the best thing is the buzz that surrounds football on and off the field.
Reggie Bush
#8. As the game gets bigger, it get bigger for the players.
Michael Strahan
#9. To play nose tackle in the NFL, you have to be unemployed or crazy. I was unemployed. The other part is still up in the air.
Bob Golic
#10. Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.
Henry Rollins
#11. Don't run too fast through life. You only have one.
Bo Jackson
#12. I actually ran in junior high school a little bit, you know, like most kids do in track and things. Then I got out of it and just trained for football and played ball for so many years - high school, college and the NFL.
Jeff Fisher
#13. Trade him for a six pack; it doesn't even have to be cold.
Buddy Ryan
#14. Rex brings out the macho talk and tells everyone this is what we're going to be and what we're going to do. And you see what happened. The players did it. It worked.
LaDainian Tomlinson
#16. Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.
Paul Allen
#17. NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.
Stephen Rodrick
#18. I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.
Bobby Bowden
#19. Do what you do and be who you are.
Nick Saban
#20. I love football. I'll watch the NFL before I watch any NBA.
Dwyane Wade
#21. 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 that's special: that thing that keeps them on the roster every year.
Larry Fitzgerald
#22. One of the strong principles that I believe in is that you're always learning, whether you're a commissioner, a current general manager, a president or an owner, or somebody that's trying to become a general manger or a coach in the NFL.
Roger Goodell
#24. I love that red wine is good for you. Isn't that cool? I want to hear more of this. I want to hear more things in life like, Red wine, in conjunction with a lap dance, while watching NFL football, is the best cardiovascular workout you can have.
Dom Irrera
#25. Forever. My brother is not a bad person. The best thing for Marc now is leaving college, getting away from a bunch of people he was around every day. Now he'll have a chance to play in the NFL and have somebody who can be there with him and can guide him in the right direction.
Michael Vick
#26. 12 of the best years of my life - It will never be forgotten.
Troy Aikman
#27. Well this week's all about Seattle, so we've been doing our best to prepare for the Seahawks. I'm doing that, our team's doing that and we'll be ready to go Sunday. That's our focus.
Bill Belichick
#28. Is this my best team ever? I won't know that for another 20 years or so.
Amos Alonzo Stagg
#29. Some people say I'm the best back in the NFL. That's what drives you: You want everyone saying there's no doubt who's the best.
LaDainian Tomlinson
#30. If you lose your best cornerback and punter, I'd say that's a double loss.
John Madden
#31. I'm very confident I'm one of the best to ever play the game, but once you talk about the greatest, how can you define greatest?
Emmitt Smith
#32. I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.
Richard Sherman
#33. 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.
Robert Griffin III
#34. Do the best work you can do and try not to worry about the fact that you are a woman covering the NFL and you have never played the sport before. Just focus on the story and study, prepare and deliver the best report possible.
Megan Alexander
#35. I wish Michael Sam nothing but the best in his quest to become a star in the NFL,and I am confident he will get the opportunity to show what he can do on the field.
Tony Dungy
#36. Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.
Channing Tatum
#37. I didn't play in the NFL, and I didn't play defensive line. But football, at the fundamental level, is football. It's about motivating people and getting the best out of them.
Brendan Daly
#39. You want to be playing your best in December and hopefully it'll carry over into January.
Philip Rivers
#40. That's the difference between the NCAA and the NFL right now. They've got to step up and say, 'We're going to do the right thing. We're going to hire qualified people. We're going to hire the best man for the job regardless of what boosters or anyone else has to say.'
Tony Dungy
#41. I'm the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that is the result you are going to get. Don't you ever talk about me.
Richard Sherman
#42. Peyton was the best, my favorite quarterback growing up.
Andrew Luck
#43. They're willing to let Matt sit and wait until they believe he's ready and I can't do the best I'm capable of doing. I'm completely comfortable with that.
Kurt Warner
#44. I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.
Jerry Rice
#45. You know, I started this process of being a football player and I'm going to make it to the NFL very soon and I plan on finishing that. And by 'finishing that,' I mean that I'm going to go out and be the best that I can be and put everything forth to make that happen.
Robert Griffin III
#46. The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.
Jim Otto
#47. If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.
Margaret Mead
#48. There was absolutely zero discourse between me or anybody at the studio with the NFL. None. The only exchange was one-sentence e-mails trying to arrange a meeting, before deciding to cancel the meeting. Period. End of story.
Peter Landesman
#49. The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
Aaron Rodgers
#50. No one had ever made it big from my town until I was able to make it to the NFL and now the big screen. The journey from my town to where I am now has taught me how to be resilient and fearless, and for that I will forever be grateful.
Thomas Jones
#51. I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.
Darren Flutie
#52. Every game's a championship game. When we focus that way, get prepared that way-that this is it, you know, this is the last one, the biggest one-you get ready, you get amped up, you get that laser focus and you're ready to play.
Russell Wilson
#53. I'd love to give Malcolm the truck. We're going to figure out how to make that happen.
Tom Brady
#55. 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
#56. Putting a rheumatologist at the head of a committee that arguably was going to have more influence over brain research than any particular institution in the country at the time, I think a lot of people found surprising.
Steve Fainaru
#57. I think the state of the NFL has a very positive outlook.
Roger Goodell
#58. If Russell Wilson wins this game ... He starts to creep into the conversation of how we talk about Tom Brady, how we talk about Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, and Aaron Rodgers.
Marshall Faulk
#59. I will remain in relentless pursuit of continuing my lifelong dream of being an NFL quarterback.
Tim Tebow
#60. Actually, I was lucky enough; I was a heavyweight, so making weight for me was never that much of a problem in high school. Now, it would just be near impossible, because I'm a little heavier.
Alex Mack
#63. I was a quarterback in college. I hoped to go to the NFL, and I didn't get drafted. I then became a free agent. I could sign with whoever I wanted to, and I ended up going to Pittsburgh.
Tony Dungy
#64. The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.
Wendell Pierce
#65. The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.
Steve Young
#66. I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.
Bobby Bowden
#67. 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
#68. I know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. That's my motivation. I want to help my players to be as good as they can be.
Tony Dungy
#70. The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.
Roger Goodell
#71. I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature.
Terrell Davis
#73. The increased rate of brain disease in the NFL population is caused by the way the game is played within the rules.
Steve Gleason
#74. I criticize the NFL in many ways, but I think it's made great strides. I think college basketball, great strides. College football means so much to alumni, doesn't it? It sort of represents the school. It's when you go back; it's at the beginning of the school year.
Frank Deford
#75. When we have public success we also have private struggles.
Deion Sanders
#76. The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
Manti Te'o
#77. I want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.
Adrian Peterson
#78. I think the preseason helps a lot, just to feel a little bit about the speed of the game.
Andrew Luck
#79. 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
#80. Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.
Jim Thorpe
#81. I don't really get too frustrated. I know I'm going to get the ball.
Calvin Johnson
#82. I'm a serious person by nature - sometimes too serious.
Peyton Manning
#83. I'll just say this. There was no way we were going to lose at home on this day in this in this city for all those people.
Tom Coughlin
#84. Sixteen times a year, all thirty-two NFL teams give us what we're looking for: speed, skill, violence, fantasy league orgasms and a final score. No confusion. No doubt. No indecision. A winner and a loser.
Mike Barnicle
#85. The butterflies I get are not if somebody boos me in the crowd, or somebody talks trash about me during the week, or somebody on ESPN rips me. It's the pressure that I'm putting on myself.
Aaron Rodgers
#86. Come on Sandy, baby, loosen up, your too tight.
John Riggins
#87. 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.
Troy Polamalu
#88. Just relief of trying to get there for eight years. It's finally here and I'm very excited. It's just great. It's been a long ride.
Darrelle Revis
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