Quotes About NFL

You have to watch out because being an athlete and playing at the college level with the opportunity to go the NFL, you're under the microscope and everybody's watching. There are people that look up to us. So you have to watch out for what you do and who you're around.

What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL.

Pittsburgh is a great organization.

I played with the Pittsburgh Steelers this year, one of the most historic franchises in the NFL, and it is so cool and amazing.

I think the American sports culture has the idea that professional athletes need so much, like flying private planes, which obviously we don't, but that's the American sports culture when they think of the NFL and the NBA.

I always wanted to play in the NFL. I decided to go to Florida State University as my college to play football because the coach there - Bobby Bowden - had a pedigree and acumen for putting players into the league.

If you play NFL football, you play football, these are the consequences. There's choices and consequences in life for everything. There's consequences if you play football.

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.

When you stand and talk about player safety, and then, at the same time, you want to extend the season two more games, there's a contradiction in there.

There are already gay players in the NFL and have been for a while.

It feels good to win a game, because it's tough to win in this league, and then when you talk about the playoffs and being in it for two of three years, what a blessing.

One of the things that was really attractive to me about Fox is they have the NFL, and baseball playoffs.

As coaches, we usually have plenty of changes from one year to the next. Sometimes it seems like it's at one position. Sometimes it's across the board. But this is really a part of every year that we have in coaching in the NFL.

So to me, life is more than just money and making it to the NFL. Life's about memories, life is about experiences, and I feel like when players just plug in for three years and run to the NFL as quickly as they can, I feel like they're, without knowing it until they get older, taking themselves away from a really good memory.

The truth is that in the NFL, the job is to deliver the ball from the pocket. That's the job.

Any coach, any team in the NFL, if they had Peyton Manning healthy and ready to play, I think we all know who is going to play in the game.

What is true of the NFL is that it has been well-managed over the years. And that has been beneficial to the fans, it's been beneficial to the game itself, it's been beneficial to the players, coaches and everyone involved.

Coach Coughlin, he's one of the best coaches I've ever had. He's one of the best coaches in the NFL, hands down.

Coaches who want to coach in the NFL usually don't go to the high school level for 10 years. They know where they want to go early.

I've gotten into spats with coaches, players, as well. It's just what happens in the NFL.

They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.

I'm working for ESPN and ABC doing college football. I do NFL stuff for TSN in Canada. I'm so lucky to have this job.

The last thing the NFL wants to do is make problems for the colleges.

Being a huge football fan, the chance to work for the NFL and do a show combining sports and entertainment is truly a dream come true.