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Quotes About Achievement

I don't really care how many yards I throw for; as long as we score more points than the guys we're playing.
~ Alex Smith
I can hit the whiskers on a cat with a football from a distance of forty yards.
~ Steve Young
I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what's it all for?
~ Calvin Johnson
As long as I can stay north or south, I'm gaining yards.
~ Jamal Lewis
I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games.
~ Marcus Allen
I told Clinton I want him to rush for 2,000 yards. And I want our team to go to the Super Bowl and win it. I've been there and not won it. It's really simple for me. You get stats, fame and fortune, but if you don't end up with the ring you're never satisfied.
~ Shaun Alexander
Today, at 35, I can throw a small football close to 80 yards - and straighter than I can hit a golf ball.
~ Jimmy Walker
In the NFL, if you make the play or you don't make the play, you're just a football player who did or didn't make the play. You don't get more yards or less yards based on what you're labeled as by society.
~ DeAngelo Williams
At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.
~ Marcus Allen
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.
~ John O. Brennan
I've never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I'm not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I'd like to do.
~ Tim Finchem
At the end of the day, I don't care how many catches I have or how many yards I have. As long as the Ws keep stacking up in the win column, I'm happy.
~ Stefon Diggs
In my 14 years, catching 200 yards or scoring 3 touchdowns in a game, breaking a record - none of those compared to winning the Super Bowl for the first time.
~ Shannon Sharpe
Yards don't matter. The score is all that matters.
~ Tom Herman
You don't work your butt off for 90 yards of a 100-yard dash and then just quit.
~ Shawn Kemp
If we are running sprints, I want to beat everybody by 10 yards. If we are playing checkers, I want to win: I'm pretty good at checkers, and I'm trying to get on chess.
~ Davis Webb
I kind of want to break the NFL record in yards.
~ Demaryius Thomas
I'm not a numbers type of guy who says I need this many yards, this many touchdowns.
~ Saquon Barkley
Getting 1,000 yards in the NFL is an amazing accomplishment, and being the first rookie ever for the Giants to do that is even a bigger one. It's big because even though my name might go in the record book, it's not just myself - it's the offensive line play and the guys in the running back room, all those guys have been a tremendous help.
~ Saquon Barkley
My main focus is to get positive yards.
~ Derrick Henry
I had 1,000 yards when I played on plantar fasciitis before.
~ Amari Cooper
I guess it's a good thing to do, but people go for 1,000 yards every year, so it's not really a big thing.
~ Amari Cooper
I take a lot of pride in the deep ball - I can throw it 75 yards in the air with ease, and I work at it.
~ Davis Webb
I want to lead the league in yards, touchdowns, basically about everything a receiver can do.
~ Demaryius Thomas