Quotes About Linemen

#1. 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.

Merlin Olsen

#2. Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

Dennis Miller

#3. I don't want to be one of those players that is just a first, second or third down player. I want to be a four-down player, able to play in the ground and dirt with the linemen, but also able to play in space.

Justin Cole

#4. In the interest of clarity, we'll define talent in its strictest sense: the possession of repeatable skills that don't depend on physical size (sorry, jockeys and NFL linemen).

Daniel Coyle

#5. Offensive linemen are like salt. Nobody ever remembers the brand they buy.

Blaine Nye

#6. I feel like I've helped create a new standard of hustle for defensive linemen.

Jevon Kearse

#7. You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You're sacking them. You're bagging them. And that's what you're doing with a quarterback.

Deacon Jones

#8. When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.

Tom Brady

#9. The football playoffs feature one-off affairs, without bad feelings building from weekend to weekend. In addition, football uses platoons for offense and defense and kicking, so only the interior linemen have a chance to really get up close and personal with one another.

George Vecsey

#10. Dex winks. JJ Watt does it, so I do it too. No way am I going to be caught with my dick in the wind facing one of those defensive linemen coming at me like a tank.

Kristen Callihan

#11. I would have all my offensive linemen wrestle if I could.

John Madden

#12. Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies.

Dan Fouts

#13. I think some people just don't know that much about comedy. It would be like a person who didn't know anything about football thinking all offensive linemen are the same.

Anthony Jeselnik

#14. 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.

Earl Campbell

#15. There are only so many times I can say, 'I owe it to my offensive linemen,' or, 'The credit should go to my teammates,' before it becomes run down.

Marshawn Lynch

#16. I see more now. As far as concepts, I know where teammates are going, linemen are going. I can read defensive fronts. I can read the body language of linebackers. I study film to see who's a bull rusher and who's a finesse rusher. I think I've learned.

Brandon Jacobs

#17. You continue to build and work on new things, and continue to beat offensive linemen, week in and week out.

Ndamukong Suh

#18. I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

Gerald R. Ford

#19. As a running back, it takes five offensive linemen, a tight end, a fullback and possibly two wide receivers, in order to make my job successful.

Marshawn Lynch

#20. I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.

Jack Youngblood

#21. To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

Ann Goldstein

#22. We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

Ray Bradbury

#23. This is what I love about novels, both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss, to be with you

John Green

#24. I never thought I'd die alone. Another six months I'll be unknown. Give all my things to all my friends.
You'll never set foot in my room again. You'll close it off, board it up. Remember the time that I spilled the cup of apple juice in the hall? Please tell mom this is not her fault.

Blink-182

#25. From the stars," she thought, "doubtless all things are seen.

Pearl S. Buck

#26. Grace is the gateway to heaven.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

John McCarthy