Quotes About NFL

I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.

The NFL, as compared to the NBA, it's so physical and so emotional almost every play.

I've been a bit surprised, and encouraged, by the NBA's support for athletes that speak out. Compared to the NFL, it's night and day.

A lot of times, I got confused for a kicker. And I've been compared to every white player in the NFL.

Contrary to popular mythology, not all NFL cheerleaders are bimbos or strippers or bored pretty girls looking to get rich. The Ben-Gals offer proof. Neither a bimbo nor a stripper nor a bored pretty girl would survive the rigorous life of a Ben-Gal. The Ben-Gals all have jobs or school or both.

My father was an NFL running back, so I feel like I might be more susceptible, genetically, to CTE.

I don't want players coming in from the college level that are either trying to avoid a suspension, declare themselves ineligible on their own, hire an agent and decide, 'I'm going to enter into the NFL.'

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

You look at guys with significant Alzheimer's and dementia and the mood swings and the suicides that unfortunately NFL players have been faced with. And depression. Lou Gehrig's disease. These are all things that have kind of been linked to the brain damage from football.

I'd love to make the switch over to NFL. I'd love to try it but I'm not really sure what position I'd play. I'd probably have to be a kicker.

NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.

All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.

If the National Football League, an organization notoriously known for not standing behind their athletes of color, can come out to make a statement to condemn racism and their systemic oppression and admit they were wrong for not listening in the past, then the 'Bachelor' franchise can most certainly follow suit.

With the one hundred and ninety-ninth pick in the draft," the commissioner announced, "the New England Patriots select Tom Brady.

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.

It's so hard in the NFL, man. You spend the course of a long week preparing for one opportunity. And once you get that opportunity and you get in that moment, it's just an amazing feeling. It's something you should celebrate about, something you should be excited about.

The NFL is part of the pop culture landscape, so sports fans don't bat an eye when you stop in the middle of a piece to talk about a new movie.

My pops played for the Packers for five years.

We've now found CTE in former NFL players who played every position except kicker.

The main reason why I would even potentially go to the NFL Draft is for my family.

Once you're under contract with the XFL, you're under contract, regardless of position. We're not trying to be a development league for the NFL.

In the NFL they talk about 'contracts,' but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that.

Guys every year across the league look for new contracts. That's just the business in the NFL.