Quotes from Adam Vinatieri

I like my smart-aleck self.

I know I'm going to shoot a leopard.

Every once in a while you do have a bad day.

The way I look at it is, if you're going to play, you better put 100 percent effort into it all the time.

In golf, there are times when you hit a ball so perfectly that you never feel the ball leave your club.

The X's and O's with Bill Belichick is pretty amazing.

I bleed blue, and it's Colts blue now.

I know I'm going to shoot a buffalo.

Preparation meets opportunity, and that causes success if you're prepared to do your job and you practice a lot, more times than not you're going to be successful.

In the end, the Super Bowl is just a football game. You try to take a couple of big, deep breaths and convince yourself it's just another game. You try to, anyway.

Super Bowl kicks, those are the most memorable moments.

I have to admit I've dreamed of kicking the game-winning field goal in the Super Bowl many times. That's the fun thing about being a kicker, you never know when it's going to come down to your kick deciding the game.

I've always been a very opinionated guy, an outgoing personality.

I think there's always mental and physical aspects of football.

I was born with a shotgun in my hand, chasing pheasant through the cornfields. My dad probably started taking me out when I was 4, 5 or 6 years old.

I suppose any person who's played somewhere for a certain amount of time and then has the opportunity to go back and just reminisce a little bit, maybe it holds a different feeling than some of the other places.

Will it make the game safer for people by moving the extra point back to a 43-yarder? If anything, players are going to rush harder because they're thinking, 'That far of a field goal-type try, we have to go after blocking it more.'

It's fun running out onto the field. It's much more fun playing in the playoffs.

This is a hard enough sport when you're giving 100 percent. If you're giving anything less than that, it'll swallow you up.

Every kicker that's in this league has kicked a million or so balls. You just have that swing; you know what you have to do, and you go out there and do it.

Cleaning out your locker the first week of January is not a whole lot of fun and it always leaves a lousy taste in your mouth.

If you want to talk about potential risk, more guys get injured on a field goal than extra point.

It would be fun if I were 40 pounds heavier and a little bit faster to get in and play some linebacker.

I was at the crossroads of my life when I was 7 years old.