"I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it."
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"I played football with my whole body - My hands, my head, my face. I did it all."
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"My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance."
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"Not only does he have the NFC East record for touchdowns, but also the team record."
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"Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person."
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"You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means your brain is receiving information from your body what your car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance."
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"I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games."
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"I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them."
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"I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose."
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"People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat."
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"All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football."
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"I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much."
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"They've kicked our backsides, we've got to lick our wounds..."
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"My thing is, and I've always been this way - to get to know as many people as I possibly can on a personal level, so that way, when you get on the football field, you've got your buddy right beside you, and you're ready to go."
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"Don't let this[football] be the best thing that ever happens in your life. Maybe it'll be the best sports event, but don't let it be the best thing. Make sure you're a better father than this today. Make sure you're a better husband than this today. Because this goes away... It's a game."
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"If you play football, theres going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team."
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"Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football."
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"I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium."
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"I couldn't catch a ball if it had Elmer's Glue all over it. And my father had to be this ex-football star. He didn't know what to tell his friends, so he told them all I had Polio. On Father's Day, I used to limp for him."
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"When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in a play, where there is a great star. If the star is not well, the whole cast suffers."
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