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Running Back Quotes

To be the highest-paid running back ever is quite an honor.
- Shaun Alexander

Without bragging, I've been blessed to have five of the greatest statistical years for a running back.
- Shaun Alexander

I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.
- Shaun Alexander

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.
- Marcus Allen

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.
- Marcus Allen

With her fingers running back up my arms, and all this sperm talk, things are getting a little too intense down below. I lean slightly forward, conveniently placing my forearms across my lap.
- Jay Asher

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.
- Sean Astin

You were first-string running back last year. What happened?" Coach
"Stone's mouth happened. It needed to be closed, and I was a little too obliging to shut it." Nick
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Listen to me, Ria. It will be different when you and I have a home. It will be a real home, one that people will want to come running back to.
- Maeve Binchy

The merry-go-round was running, yes, but...
It was running backward.
The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.
- Ray Bradbury

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.
- Tom Brady

Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
- Earl Campbell

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
- Horace

Searching for nothing
Wondering if I'll change
I'm trying everything
But everything still stays the same
I thought if I showed you I could fly
Wouldn't need anyone by my side
I'm running backwards
With broken wings I know I'll die
- Sully Erna

People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody - running back, quarterback, wide receiver - make the plays that Vince Young made today.
- Dan Fouts

Violet heard the coughing and came running back. She sank down on the bench beside Rose, putting her arm around the older girl and holding a handkerchief to Rose's lips. "What happened?" she asked Galen, her tone just shy of being accusatory.
"I am so sorry, Your Highness," Galen said, backing away. "I made her laugh, and"
"You made her laugh?" Violet's eyes widened. "She hasn't laughed in weeks!" She smiled at Galen and gave Rose's shoulders a little squeeze.
- Jessica Day George

I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.
- Jenny Han

I really don't look at comparing things that way because even in a 14-game season, there could be a running back who could have a lot more carries than other running backs.
- Franco Harris

I do a victory dance worthy of any NFL running back. Uh-huh.
- Carrie Jones

We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress.
- Jerry Jones

You coming?"
She hesitated, weighing her options. Risk running back down the flaming aisles to find another exit? Or trust the guy who'd been stalking her all afternoon?
The fire spread to the nearby shelves. The heat was growing unbearable.
"You cut me deep," he said. "You'd actually choose a fiery death over the prospect of my company. I have to admit, that stings a bit.
- Jena Leigh

That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
- Jamal Lewis

The girl hurried away, but then Pippi shouted, "Did he have big ears that reached way down to his shoulders?"
"No," said the girl and turned and came running back in amazement. "You don't mean to say that you have seen a man walk by with such big ears?"
"I have never seen anyone who walks with his ears," said Pippi. "All the people I know walk with their feet.
- Astrid Lindgren

If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks.
- Ronnie Lott

As I was running back to camp, thoughts of tripping and crushing the endangered lemur crowded my head. I could see the headline, "Former NFL Cheerleader Squashes World's Smallest Primate With Her Left Breast." I slowed down just a little bit.
- Mireya Mayor

Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.
- Al Michaels

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
- J D Salinger

Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near herethe first house down the road, maybethere's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
- J D Salinger

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