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Pro Football Quotes

I stopped looking around when I heard a soft "mew" and I looked toward Tate to see he was crouched. He straightened and turned to me.
I froze and stared.
Tatum Jackson, ex-pro football player, ex-cop, now bartender/bounty hunter, tall, beautiful and more man than I'd ever experienced in my life was standing on the edge of his kitchen holding a cat.
And it wasn't just any cat and he wasn't just holding it. He was cradling it.
- Kristen Ashley

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
- Dick Butkus

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
- Frank Gifford

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
- Ron Jaworski

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
- Jack Kemp

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
- Bob Lilly

Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
- Wellington Mara

Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.
- Jay Mohr

People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.
- Pete Rozelle

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.
- Pete Rozelle

The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.
- Steve Sabol

Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud... He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now.
- Steve Sabol

I remember when we were making 'They Call It Pro Football,' which was our 'Citizen Kane.' The first line is 'It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.'
- Steve Sabol

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