A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.
He's started anticipating what's going to happen before it's even happened.
Knight saved it with his back arm
He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.
Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.
You structure your system to fit him if he's going to be your guy.
I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.
All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war)
It all went a bit grape-shaped.
At the end of the day, the only people a One Voice doctrine silences are those who should be the most loyal.
I'm a guy here to play football. I'm not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I'm not into all that.
I do like to try and see myself in football players. Everybody is different and express themselves in different ways. There are different kinds of talents of course and there are many who I would never have had the talent that they have when I was a player. But I still had that determination to be successful and try my best.
I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.
It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back.
Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.
In football, the good thing is things can change in a second.
Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.
