The honor of my race family and self is at stake. Everyone is expecting me to do big things. I will. My whole body and soul are to be thrown recklessly about the field. Every time the ball is snapped I will be trying to do more than my part…Fight low with your eyes open and toward the play. Watch out for cross bucks and reverse end runs. Be on your toes every minute if you expect to make good. Jack.
Watching football is like watching pornography. Theres plenty of action and I cant take my eyes off it but when its over I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to lose.
It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight (the power to foresee and provide for the future)
Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks Edwards remembered their particular talents: Jim McMahon: A great natural leader. Great ability. Great presence. For a guy who was supposed to be blind in one eye he had as much vision as anyone Ive ever seen. Hed know instinctively where he should turn and where he should throw the ball. He was never a problem on the field. He was kind of cocky but that didnt bother me. He had such a quick delivery and such a natural ability. I told Chicago hed win them a Super Bowl.
I dont like to lose and that isnt so much because it is just a football game but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I dont want a football player who doesnt take defeat to heart who laughs it off with the thought Oh well theres another Saturday. The trouble in American life today in business as well as in sports is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.
That Jim Brown. He says he isnt Superman. What he really means is that Superman isnt Jimmy Brown!
I just wrap my arms around the whole backfield and peel em one by one until I get to the ball carrier. Him I keep.
I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.
When I played pro football I never set out to hurt anybody deliberately … unless it was you know important like a league game or something.
When your are playing for the national championship its not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough no matter how bad it is you can make it.
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
If you train hard youll not only be hard youll be hard to beat.
The honor of my race family and self is at stake. Everyone is expecting me to do big things. I will. My whole body and soul are to be thrown recklessly about the field. Every time the ball is snapped I will be trying to do more than my part…Fight low with your eyes open and toward the play. Watch out for cross bucks and reverse end runs. Be on your toes every minute if you expect to make good. Jack.
Besides pride loyalty discipline heart and mind confidence is the key to all the locks.
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Gentlemen it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
Watching football is like watching pornography. Theres plenty of action and I cant take my eyes off it but when its over I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.
When its third and ten you can take the milk drinkers and Ill take the whiskey drinkers every time.
In life as in a football game the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to lose.
It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight (the power to foresee and provide for the future)
If a man watches three football games in a row he should be declared legally brain dead.
Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks Edwards remembered their particular talents: Jim McMahon: A great natural leader. Great ability. Great presence. For a guy who was supposed to be blind in one eye he had as much vision as anyone Ive ever seen. Hed know instinctively where he should turn and where he should throw the ball. He was never a problem on the field. He was kind of cocky but that didnt bother me. He had such a quick delivery and such a natural ability. I told Chicago hed win them a Super Bowl.
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think its important.
I dont like to lose and that isnt so much because it is just a football game but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I dont want a football player who doesnt take defeat to heart who laughs it off with the thought Oh well theres another Saturday. The trouble in American life today in business as well as in sports is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.