Nfl Quotes

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

Guys are just too fast and too big in the NFL.

I've been able to speak with most of the special teams coaches and special teams scouts.

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'.

If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.

I think the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion.

I don't think there's any question that the UFL or any other league that wants to challenge the NFL can have an impact. The demand for professional football is off the charts.

Knowledge relaxes me. Football is all about playing faster. You play faster when you know more.

If Russell Wilson wins this game... He starts to creep into the conversation of how we talk about Tom Brady, how we talk about Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, and Aaron Rodgers.

There will be many failures sprinkled among the successes you enjoy.

Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.

Just showing that what I did at the combine wasn't a fluke.

I'd like to say I'm one of the tight ends here and I hope this week helps me show that I do have the talent to be considered that.

Michelle Tafoya - best NFL sideline reporter - period. She is always prepared and professional.

I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have.

The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

Nothing is a violent as football and I bet you like. Just say you don't like it, or can't identify, don't come up with excuses like "It's too violent" while you wear some team's NFL jersey.

George Halas throws nickels around like man hole covers.

Cap Boso? How could I cut a guy with a name like that?

My reputation when I was first here was that I had every single answer in the book. I don't know, maybe I portrayed that somehow. I was learning, and I continue to learn and I have learned.

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.

I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

Barry Sanders, by far. Not only one of my favorite Lions, but one of my favorite NFL athletes. It's all about highlights for me, I'm a receiver! Sanders is like the NFL version of an And1 mix tape.

The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

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.

If you wagered $5,000 on each of my winning NFL picks in 2012 and $500 ($550) on each of my losing picks, you'd be ahead $70,050. Wow.

Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.

There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.

I can't ask the offense to score slower.

NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

I'm one of the most competitive guys in the NFL. Believe me, nobody wants it more than me.

My concentration and focus level tends to go down sometimes when I'm in a bad mood.

The Moss of old is back!

And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from pursuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, than I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.

You don't have to win it, just don't lose it.

It was another day to go to work, and try to play and play well.

It's more mental in the NFL than it was in high school. In high school you just line up and close the gap. In the NFL you have to do the right things so the team can win.

Every TV timeout, I went up and said it right to Brady: 'Please keep trying me. I'm going to take it from you.'

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.

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.

Last time I checked I was able to throw the ball a little bit.

I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.

There's a fine line between playing with fear and then taking bad plays and playing with no fear.

I'm always studying. I probably wrote the most papers of any college quarterback.

The only reason you get drafted or even looked at by the NFL is because they believe you can play at the next level ... if they believe I can do that, you know I believe I can do it.

The speed will increase and the players will be better, but also the players around you will be a lot better. It all cancels itself out.

As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I'm not going to slam it in its face.

It's not about talent once you get to the NFL because everyone's got it. It's about being willing to go that extra mile to be the best and that's something that I've always done.