Scrimmage Quotes

#1. You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120% but if one guy is out of position then someone is running through the line of scrimmage and he is going to gain a bunch of yards.

Bill Belichick

#2. The good lord tripped me up behind the line of scrimmage.

George Carlin

#3. Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.

Erma Bombeck

#4. I didn't care if we ever quit practicing. I loved it. The only other guy I ever knew who loved it as much was Jerry Duncan. He would beg to practice even when he was hurt. I've actually seen him cry because the trainer told him he couldn't scrimmage.

Bear Bryant

#5. Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage ... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table.

Don Shula

#6. American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

David Mamet

#7. During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails.

Jerry Tarkanian

#8. Coaches who scrimmage all the time don't know what to practice.

Paul Brown

#9. I meant of course the whole portentous scrimmage of sex itself, the act of penetration which could lead a man to despair for the sake of a creature with two breasts and le croissant as the picturesque Levant slang has it.

Lawrence Durrell

#10. I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers ... What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.

Bum Phillips

#11. We felt responsible for each other. The D-line's got to take care of that line of scrimmage, (the linebackers) have got to clean up, and the safeties and DBs take care of that back end. We felt we're a brotherhood and we just had to get it done.

Kawika Mitchell

#12. Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

Walter Lippmann

#13. Whoever controls the line of scrimmage and wins up front is going to be the winner.

Carson Palmer

#14. It was good to be out there again. Actually I told my wife the same thing: Itll be fun to go out in a stadium on a field competing. Even though it was just a scrimmage.

Mark Brunell

#15. In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables.

James Fenton

#16. Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. You don't see it.

Terry Teachout

#17. I played like a child.

Magnus Carlsen

#18. If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

Toby Stephens

#19. In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

Gregory Bateson

#20. Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

Regina Spektor

#21. My default button was set to self-destruct. It had been since birth.

Mercy Celeste

#22. I have a feeling I may have been born a century and a half too late, two classes too low, and in the wrong country...

Jack Rollins

#23. The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts.

Otto Bauer

#24. God's only excuse is that He doesn't exist, remarked Voltaire after a natural disaster that killed many people. Nietzsche loved this quote and wished he'd coined it!

Voltaire

#25. Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?

James Russell Lowell

#26. I loved him. I loved him in a way I'd never loved another person. I could only see him. I could only fear for him and what would happen to him when this was over. He'd sacrificed his reputation knowing he might have nothing left. For me.

Mercy Celeste

#27. You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt ... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

Stefan Sagmeister

#28. it's hard giving out love to people who shove it back in your face. That's not what love's supposed to be about. No, it's not perfect and people get hurt, but it's a give and take. And it should be comfort, not pain.

Nyrae Dawn

#29. I've said many times that in a way I think it might have been Bo who saved me. I was trying to save him, but I came out the other side a better person for knowing him.

Mercy Celeste

#30. Our lives are written in disappearing ink.

Michelle Cliff