Quotes About Linebacker

I prefer safety. That's what I've played my whole life, but if the team needs me to play linebacker, then I'll do it.

I had a full-ride football scholarship as a middle linebacker.

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.

Jim Graham] had been a linebacker at Penn State, and was seriously old-school. I mean, really old-school; like he thought the forward pass was a trick play.

You have to understand, it takes a lot of qualities to play linebacker - quickness, tackling ability and sheer force - so you just can't take someone from another position and think they could all of a sudden handle that role.

Nobody talks about Shaq Thompson. I don't know what he is. He's like a nickel corner/linebacker.

You look at stats for a guy who is a pretty good linebacker, he'll make 100 tackles. You make 100, you're averaging seven or eight tackles a game. If you play every down, that's a good number.

I've tried to bring the mentality of the outside linebacker to the inside and the rough, tough style of an inside linebacker to the outside. The middle linebacker always has been known as kind of a big plugger. Outside guys are known to be able to run. I just try to make big plays wherever I am.

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.

If I'm out wide, and they put a linebacker on me, I think that's a mismatch every time, regardless of who is on me.

Donnie Thomas is simply a superlative linebacker with everything it takes to be an all-American.

I wondered if teams were going to find a place for me, but the Bears said linebacker right away. I tried outside linebacker first and I was terrible. Then inside seemed to fit me.

Ray Lewis, I've grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the game, his love for the game, his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis, from leadership qualities, all that.

I was the first player at Jay to play four years varsity. As a frosh, I was a punter. From my soph through senior years, I started as a linebacker and tight end and was all-state as a senior.

In middle school, I played quarterback. I was at a tiny school, so you played offense and defense - I played linebacker, and in high school I stopped playing around my sophomore year because of my acting stuff.

My body size and everything was perfect for being a heavyweight wrestler rather than being a linebacker.

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

I'm used to going out amongst giants and being the smallest linebacker.

I'm big as a linebacker, and a seven-year-old girl treats me like her errand boy. Does she smell weakness on me?

All of the linebacker spots are pretty similar, they just have different intricacies.

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

The linebacker protested the move and Belichick shelved him for the rest of the season. Amazingly, he'd never play in the league again.