Top 36 Merlin Olsen Quotes
#1. It's unbelievable how many things I've learned from Merlin Olsen.
Jack Youngblood
#2. Team doctors' jobs those days were to keep you on the field.
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#3. The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.
John Rawls
#4. I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have.
Merlin Olsen
#5. Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.
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#6. When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
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#7. You can take the best team and the worst team and line them up and you would find very little physical difference. You would find an emotional difference. The wining team has a dedication. It will have a core group of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.
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#8. I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.
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#9. Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.
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#10. For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which non-Jews can become citizens and enjoy equal civil rights with the Jewish majority, the question of natural law is the question of human rights.
David Novak
#11. Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time.
Merlin Olsen
#12. We need to know where we are going and how we plan to get there. Our dreams and aspirations must be translated into real and tangible goals with priorities and time frames.
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#13. The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing 'Sleep sweet sleep'. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack
Kim Cormack
#14. One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
Merlin Olsen
#15. Our fates are locked together. It would be foolish of me to anger God by leaving you.
Mark Tompkins
#16. I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.
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#17. Each morning, each turbid morning of your lives you will have it steaming and burning at your tables: so as not to see it, not to digest it so many times: you will push it aside a bit between the bread and the grapes, this bowl of silent blood that will be there each morning, each morning. A
Pablo Neruda
#18. Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.
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#20. Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?
C.S. Lewis
#21. Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!
Anita Loos
#22. Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.
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#24. Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.
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#26. I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.
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#27. This view of a living nature where man is nothing is both odd and sad. Here, in a fertile land, in an eternal greenness, you search in vain for traces of man; you feel you are carried into a different world from the one you were born into.
Alexander Von Humboldt
#28. It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.
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#29. I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.
Roz Savage
#30. I bet I made close to 20 tackles because nobody on either side knew what they were doing.
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#32. After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.
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#33. I know about two things: 'Rocky III' and Clubber Lang, and 'A-Team' and B.A. Baracus. That's who I am!
Mr. T
#34. The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.
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#35. We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.
Albert Camus
#36. Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.
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