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The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.
That's why you bring in a veteran player. You never know when a player goes down, a guy's got to step up and play.
God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.
I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles.
I was always a Favre fan. I was born in Wisconsin, and my whole family was Packers fans, so I grew up watching him.
The increased rate of brain disease in the NFL population is caused by the way the game is played within the rules.
With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line.
I enjoy watching the NFL, but you've got to have a real passion to make that transition and have a real crack at it.
The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.
Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.
You don't hear about tradition in the NFL, but we have a tradition in Baltimore. It was just an awesome place to be.
Right before I left ESPN, someone suggested doing a NFL story in the spring. The person was laughed out of the room.
I just think you can't get caught up with who's on the other side. Everybody in the NFL is good. Every team is good.
I am competitively aggressive. My dream since I was a young boy was to be an NFL quarterback. I am living that dream.
Sometimes guys peak early. They get drafted higher, and they make it to the NFL, and they don't have a lot of growth.
It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.
One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
I understand how hard every guy in this NFL works, especially at the position, especially at the quarterback position.
I think I bring a good perspective because I did a lot of things in the NFL - player, head coach, assistant and scout.
At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
I was 0-11 as a starter, and there were times when I walked off the field wondering if I'd ever win a game in the NFL.
It's the NFL, so anytime you get to go out and get to play against another team, there's going to be some physicality.
When I was a teenager, I was so dumb my mamma knocked me off the porch with a broom. You wish you had so good a mamma.
I never met him. But just growing up where Deacon Jones did, he motivated me to be great, showing the NFL was possible.
I don't want people to say I'm a solid quarterback. I want to be the best, and I'll continually work until I get there.
There are certain teams in the NFL that have a certain aura about them, and there's a certain respect level about them.
Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'
You can't talk about the NFL without the Raiders, the three Super Bowl championships, what Al Davis meant to the league.
Other sports culminate at different times of the year, but the NFL is in the fourth quarter - that's where the money is.
I mean, Mike Riley is an idiot, but I can't do anything to change that. He wasn't supposed to be a head coach in the NFL.
In the NFL, you're part of a team. You work together to win. Being a WWE Superstar is all about me. No team. I'm special.
There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.
I think about my family first. I want my family to not want for anything. I would like to make sure they have no worries.
Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!
I am extremely flattered to be chosen the 2012 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year from such an esteemed group of nominees.
Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base stuff.
I'll just say this. There was no way we were going to lose at home on this day in this in this city for all those people.
It doesn't feel good in the NFL when you lose a football game until you get out there and win another one and another one.
In the NFL, you've got to get to the Super Bowl, and you've got to win it. That's the evaluation we're all accountable to.
If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?
I want to be recognized as the best-no doubt about it. When they say all-pro middle linebacker, I want them to mean Butkus!
Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver.
Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.
Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
Actually I feel I'm a better player; more mentally. I guess you get better with age people say. You have a lot more wisdom.
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.
LaDainian Tomlinson, Hines Ward, Marion Barber, and a host of other black stars help the NFL shine brightly week after week.
The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?
Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor.