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Sometimes on the basketball court or on the football field, you enter this place called 'The Zone.' You're not supposed to acknowledge when you're in 'The Zone,' but when you are, you simply cannot be stopped.
For me, getting off the sidelines means women making a difference by letting their voices be heard on the issues they care about.
I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.
I just think more precaution should be taken when I'm inside the pocket. Look at all the replays - I'm on the ground every time. It's unfortunate for myself, it's unfortunate for my team and I'd be lying if I sat here and said I wasn't frustrated right now.
I don't watch a lot of football for fun. I've tried, but I'm always looking to see if the left tackle is holding.
Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that.
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.
The players need to remember to run with their bodies above their legs.
I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.
You can run on a football field but you can't hide out there.
At nose tackle, you don't have to run that much.
All I know is that when you look over at the coaches on the other sideline, and all you see are guys who either coached with you or played for you, then you know it's time to get out.
Because when you're watching from the sidelines, invisible, it's easy to see clearly.
When I started, there weren't any arenas. There was football fields, but they would only hold three or four or five hundred people at the most ... We played a lot of high school auditoriums and things like that - a lot of churches ... but boy, it has changed.
The tackles are coming in thick and thin now.
My fellow players are sometimes occupying the spaces I want to play in. That forces me to adjust my runs, based on the position of my fellow players. Unfortunately, they're often playing in my zones. I think that's a shame
A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.
I don't know that the referee can be watching holding on the offensive line and get back to the quarterback. I think watching the quarterback is a full-time job.
Stadiums fill up with people to see what's going to happen between the lines. But life isn't only about visible realities. There are invisible and unseen nuances ... things that shape us into who we are.
I am usually a pacer. I go to the balcony to check the sight lines way up there, to check the sound system to see how the balance is.
People ask me what Nick (Saban) says to me on the sidelines. It is just, 'I love you so much. Can we just run some.'
All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.
I like to run the slants. The slants are cool. I like routes that you can catch the ball running.
It's a lot easier to opine from the sidelines.
There's been a lot of balls that have been pounding in that end zone.
You put a real tough tight end with good hands in the hash area, and there won't be anyone who can cover him. Then you really control the passing game.
Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.
field. I'll meet you there.
You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120% but if one guy is out of position then someone is running through the line of scrimmage and he is going to gain a bunch of yards.
Each year the winning team of the Super Bowl loses some ground (yardage) throughout the game. Yet they always keep their minds fixed on the goal, push through the opposition, and, as a result, advance to victory in the end.
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.
The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy.
I do go to football sometimes but I don't know the offside rule or free-kicks - or side kicks - or whatever they're called.
I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.
I'm looking to show people I'm a running back.
I played the game for 20 years, and I think that kept me on the football field, being adjusted. Getting hit so many times, being all out of whack, and going in to see my chiropractor kept me back on the football field.
Prior to high school, I played a lot of neighborhood football.
When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'
I prefer to play inside linebacker.
The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.
Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.
As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.
It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.
I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.
The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.
I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too
At the end of the day, when all is said and done playing this game ... it doesn't matter what you did in the field, it's what you do off the field and the lives that you touch off the field.
On offense, you can fumble and they still talk about you.
I'm going through the neutral zone and I've got a guy tugging me through the whole way, if I don't go down, I'm not going to get a call.
As a Christian, we can't stand on the sidelines with no team jersey or team colors to show our allegiance to Christ.
You have to use your mind n the NFL. Every player is smarter. Defensive backs bluff and disguise coverages to try to fool you.
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'
The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.
The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard
Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.
When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.
Russell [Wilson] plays really well in the pocket [and] outside the pocket. He's just a play waiting to happen.
Guys are just too fast and too big in the NFL.
Always work the ref's blind side.
Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
You have to run the football and stop the run, no matter what level you play at, whether it's high school, college or professional ranks. I'm a firm believer in that.
Getting to the linebackers is difficult. Blocking them is another challenge.
It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into the stands.
No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds.
As far as a guy like Ray Lewis is concerned, you know he's going to be around the ball all the time.
A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are.
In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.
I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.
And I'm wondering where the lions are.
You need to make sure you're going exactly where your guy goes in press coverage. In zone, you can read the quarterback and his eyes a bit to determine where he's going. You don't get the opportunity in press coverage to read the quarterback, so it's all on you.
It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
Unfortunately, I'm not 185 and 6-3 and can run and catch fade routes all game. I do the dirty work. I'm all good. I'm thankful for it. Somebody's got to do it.
In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavour, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance to fair play.
As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
You don't get hurt running straight ahead ... three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. I will pound you and pound you until you quit.
You always want to be on top of the playbook. You always want to be refreshed with the plays, make sure you're on the same page with everyone else.
The ball is round, the game is long.
Any defensive coordinator is worried about two things: a running quarterback and a deep ball. You know, don't get beat deep and don't let the quarterback run, because a big part of your defense can't account for the quarterback as a runner, so he gets a free run.
Smart men play close to the line because they have to
some of them can't stand it, so they quit.
When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line.
The football playoffs feature one-off affairs, without bad feelings building from weekend to weekend. In addition, football uses platoons for offense and defense and kicking, so only the interior linemen have a chance to really get up close and personal with one another.
Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.
A lot of the routes cornerbacks have to defend are quick underneath routes, so it's tougher to get a chance to track the ball on those.
When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.
When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.
Shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league
When you put the pads on ... it's time to make plays.
Anytime I'm on the field and my teammates are on the field with me, I just want them to have fun.
On the back benches, you can have your say but no power to do anything.
I bet I made close to 20 tackles because nobody on either side knew what they were doing.
When I'm lined up in the middle, it's a lot of freelancing and blitzing.
There's just a big, empty football field that's supposed to be filled with monsters that I haven't even thought of.
I like to think of myself as the running LT. I like to run up the middle and wear defenses down. It's more exciting in between the tackles.
Any play, I'm ready for all the plays, ... That's the whole thing ... Any time I can get out and show I can do this, do those type of things, I'm going to do it. It was just fun, being able to run and get down the field. Just run, do what I do.
I always say we got 700 pounds of pork up front. They're going to hold guys down and allow us linebackers to make a lot of plays. Even in practice. I'm loving it, man.
I was a borderline guy in the NFL.
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.