Top 100 Quotes About The Nfl
#1. I love the NFL. I don't have a team per se, but I'm into it.
Noel Gallagher
#2. It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.
Barry Sanders
#3. I know how difficult my rookie year in the NFL was and I know how competitive this sport is.
Troy Aikman
#4. Mark my words: If Shaun Rogers is healthy, he'll be the NFL defensive player of the year.
Matt Millen
#5. I wanted to play football all my life, and when I got accepted to Florida State, it was academically - it wasn't for any kind of scholarship. I kind of sat down and said, 'I'm not going to make it to the NFL. I'm not the size nor the skill.'
Matt Cohen
#6. 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
#7. A great guy who is no longer in the league right now who is retired, Kyle Vanden Bosch, I learned a lot from him, and I owe him a lot for my success in the NFL.
Ndamukong Suh
#8. I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
Barry Sanders
#9. I won't feel that I failed. I'll be a little disappointed in the NFL ...
Chris Kluwe
#10. There's a very fine line between winning and losing. Every team in the NFL has talent,but attitude is the biggest thing that counts - that, and playing together as a team. If you can capture that feeling, then you'll have success.
Ray Bentley
#11. We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.
Carl Crawford
#12. The NFL is a unique work place. There are no secrets anymore. Technology has taken over, and secrets are exposed. People are going to know what you're all about. You have to make sure you have real honesty in the work place, or you're going to be exposed.
Andy Reid
#13. The last time I saw this many doctors was in 1982 at the NFL Combine. They flew me in, put me in a nice hotel and took great care of me. All you have to do is just pick up the phone and call P.A.S.T. and they will do the rest for you. I am very proud of the P.A.S.T. program.
Rob Brown
#14. 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
#15. I can be in the NFL as long as any other back. I went late in the draft because no one thought I could do it.
Brandon Jacobs
#16. My first two years in the CFL, all I thought of was getting back to the NFL - it was like 'I'll put my time in up here and go back.' Then I went and signed a nice contract in Calgary and was like, 'Hey, I can make a living up here, this is great football, and I'm having a blast.'
Doug Flutie
#18. Every team in the NFL is hard, but when we play our own division it's a fight. Our goal is to make it to the playoffs and to do that we have to win games within the division. We match up well against this division, it's just a matter of getting on the field and doing what we know we can do.
Giovani Bernard
#19. Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once there, he's had a unique appreciation of what it took to succeed.
Hannah Storm
#20. As much as I enjoy TV, I've always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific - you're talking all the time.
Marv Albert
#21. We didn't win a Super Bowl together, and that's something I'll always regret - not knowing what that feels like. But you and I have won more games together than any quarterback and coach combination in the history of the NFL.
Dan Marino
#22. When I was in the NFL, whenever I got cut from a team I would do paintings of the players, they would pay me $4,000 to $5,000 to do their painting of their family, and that's how I survived until another team picked me up.
Terry Crews
#23. This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.
Carl Crawford
#24. What is true of the NFL is that it has been well-managed over the years. And that has been beneficial to the fans, it's been beneficial to the game itself, it's been beneficial to the players, coaches and everyone involved.
Roger Goodell
#25. Every kid dreams of playing in the NFL or MLB and I was that 27-year-old that dreamed of fighting in the UFC. It was kind of surreal to see that I have actually accomplished what I set out to do. It's better than I could have ever imagined.
Charlie Brenneman
#26. The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.
Ricky Williams
#27. We don't run out of stories, because of the characters. But also every year, the NFL, like a crazy rich uncle we never see, just drops some stories off at our door.
Jeff Schaffer
#28. Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.
LaMarr Woodley
#29. The NFL sort of reminds me of the tobacco companies, pre-'90s, when they kept saying, 'No, there is no link between smoking and damage to your health'.
Linda Sanchez
#30. If you really want to get rid of the problems in the NFL, put Obama in charge of it: in a few months it will be so deep in debt it will have to go out of business - no more concussions.
Rush Limbaugh
#31. What shocked me, and what I wasn't prepared for, was just how brutal and how unethical some people can be in the NFL. I mean, there were some great people, but there were some real snakes, too. I was like, 'Holy cow!' But it made me a better person, and it got me ready for other things.
Terry Crews
#32. The NFL has gone a long way to Disney-fy its image, but it's not Disney. It's the MMA. It's a violent, brutal human war, with rules. The same guy who says, 'I'm going to rob everybody,' is the same guy who would be successful in the NFL.
Terry Crews
#33. The way to stay popular as a quarterback in the NFL is never to play.
Cliff Stoudt
#34. If you can have a really good coaching staff, and you can have a really good young quarterback and do a really good job in player personnel and string together multiple successful drafts, your window is not small in the NFL because of the quarterback.
Jeffrey Lurie
#35. I will get an opportunity to play again. Why? Because this is the NFL and there's always second chances.
Chad Johnson
#36. I've always been a fan of football, always watched the NFL and it's great to always sit back wherever I can this year. You sit back and enjoy the games, pop a little sports drink - not any pop or soda - lay back, watch the games. It's always cool to see how the games go down and just enjoy them.
Rob Gronkowski
#37. The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.
Zakk Wylde
#38. I've been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL.
Peyton Manning
#39. I fired the nurse the next day because she didn't check out the NFL schedule in advance - just kidding, ... I plan to be in Denver. I haven't missed a lot of games over the years. But there's a bunch I wish I had.
Lamar Hunt
#40. The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
Larry Gagosian
#41. Biggest lesson I learned my first year in the NFL is no one gives a crap about what you did last week. This league is about what have you done for me now. That's the NFL. It's also our culture. So you keep working hard because that's the biggest truth about football.
Andrew Luck
#42. I think the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion,
Mark Cuban
#43. The truth is, the NFL will never respect women and their opinions as long as the media it answers to doesn't. I'm ready when you are, Fox.
Katie Nolan
#44. I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.
Bud Selig
#46. It's a tremendous honor. It really is a privilege, not just a right. You're in the NFL and you wear the shield now. It means the world to me; it really is a special feeling, and my family's gotten a real kick out of it.
Mark Sanchez
#47. I took care of my body. Your body is your business in the NFL.
Thomas Jones
#48. 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
#49. I was the No. 1 player coming into college and I want to be the No. 1 player heading into the NFL. That's definitely one of my goals.
Jadeveon Clowney
#50. What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL.
Peter Landesman
#51. The CFL made me a more versatile QB because of all the things you had to do once you got on the field. And if I wasn't as versatile as I was, I wouldn't have been as successful in all the different offenses that I was in, in the NFL.
Warren Moon
#52. You see guys in the NFL when you're younger, and you try to model your game after that.
Jimmy Garoppolo
#53. There's almost a Darwinian quality about the NFL.
Steve Fainaru
#54. There's rule changes every year. I do wish, however, that the NFL did have a voice from the players' side, whether it's our players' union president, or team captains, or our executive committee on the players' side. Because we're the guys that realize the risk; we're the guys on the field.
Troy Polamalu
#55. 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
#56. Emmitt Smith is someone that I have great respect for - as a player, a competitor and a person. His contributions to the organization and the NFL speak for themselves.
Emmitt Smith
#57. Nobody is thinking they're going to come out here and put a team here and become a multimillionaire. I don't know anybody that comes into the NFL like that.
Jerry Jones
#58. It doesn't matter if you want to be in the NFL or do something else. If you want something great, you won't get it sitting around.
Eric Dickerson
#59. I just always felt I'd be playing football in the NFL - or at least playing for a living.
Kurt Warner
#60. When you get to the NFL, the hits are a little bit harder. That's why I see the Chiropractor
Maurice Jones-Drew
#61. After I won the Heisman Trophy, it just was OK, I'm supposed to go to the NFL and so that's what I did. I didn't really have any expectations and I didn't really understand how things worked.
Ricky Williams
#62. I don't think anybody in the NFL is tied to each other.
Sean Taylor
#63. It wasn't until after I became famous that people noticed I played in the NFL. I kind of snuck in!
Terry Crews
#64. At the highest level in the NFL, the pass game is as complex as you can imagine.
Pete Carroll
#65. When I was15 years old, I couldn't look at the NFL and look on TV and say, 'Boy, there's a head coach, African American. That's something I'd like to do.'
Tony Dungy
#66. I interned at the NFL Network while I was in college, but I have not had an internship or another job other than football in a very long time.
Clay Matthews III
#67. The longer and longer I played in the NFL, I kind of said, 'Well, I'm not going to go out and get a 9 to 5 job at any point soon, so what can I do?' So I started hosting radio and TV shows while I was still playing.
Matt Willig
#68. Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.
Bob McNair
#69. I'm one of the most competitive guys in the NFL. Believe me, nobody wants it more than me.
Randy Moss
#70. Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.
Arlen Specter
#71. Think she could have told us we were going to fight the NFL?"
"Would that have stopped you?"
"No"
"Me either."
The laughter between the two of us echoed into the night.
Katie McGarry
#72. Jim Harbaugh has done a great job of coaching in the NFL no matter how you put it.
John Madden
#73. Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out - whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies,
Anthony Romero
#74. At what point do we admit that the NFL's true economic function is to channel our desire for athletic heroism into an engine of nihilistic greed?
Steve Almond
#75. I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.
Steve Sabol
#76. Life isn't about a hand-out. That's not what the NFL is about and that won't get you in the NFL or take care of you once you're out of the NFL. You have to work.
Eric Dickerson
#77. I wanted to find out if we went to the NFL and really took care of guys, really cared about each and every individual, what would happen?
Pete Carroll
#78. You do not have to be convicted or even charged of a crime to be able to demonstrate that you've violated a personal conduct policy, and reflect poorly not only on themselves, but all of their teammates, every NFL player in the league, and everyone associated with the NFL.
Roger Goodell
#79. In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.
Nick Saban
#80. Guys ask me, 'Why are you always smiling?' Are you kidding? I'm in the NFL, that's why!
Hines Ward
#81. The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.
Michael Lewis
#82. You always want to see the NFL try to protect the players.
Tony Dorsett
#83. Referring to the NFL Players' Association: I have one thing to say about the union: It's like Christopher Columbus. He didn't know where he was going. He didn't know where he was when he got there. He lost two-thirds of his ships along the way. And he did it with someone else's money.
Matt Bahr
#84. I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.
Zev Yaroslavsky
#85. The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.
Lawrence Taylor
#86. I had to work hard and hit the books because the opportunity to play in the NFL is not really that big, so I knew I needed something to fall back on. That's the message I want to send to those kids when I talk to them in person and let them know the most important thing is getting your education.
Jerry Rice
#87. The Redskins have been active champions in the fight against childhood obesity through our commitment with the NFL Play 60 program.
Daniel Snyder
#88. The NFL pension is the worst in the world of business. It's an embarrassment.
Jim Brown
#89. Every job has its pros and cons. The NFL just has more of both.
Tony Danza
#90. I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL.
Peter Landesman
#91. My father took me to my first game in 1971, and I fell in love with the Redskins and the NFL right then. I was hooked. And we didn't even win that game.
Daniel Snyder
#92. It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.
Barry Sanders
#93. My job is to protect the integrity of the NFL and to make sure the game is as safe as possible.
Roger Goodell
#94. I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
Bill Parcells
#95. When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?
Steve Sabol
#96. 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
#97. The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.
Matt Taibbi
#98. You have to use your mind n the NFL. Every player is smarter. Defensive backs bluff and disguise coverages to try to fool you.
Chad Ochocinco
#99. Making it to the NFL is a huge accomplishment. Making it in the NFL is a huge accomplishment, but I haven't done that yet. No matter how many games we've played, it's still hard to figure out when you've made it in the NFL.
Robert Griffin III
#100. We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players ... that's fading away.
Bill Simmons
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