Quotes About Running back

It would be special, just to know I had the best rookie season a running back has had in this league, especially a record that's been however old it is.

I think I am a good running back, but I'm really not that fast. There is only one thing I can do, that is throw a cross-body block. Picture perfect. I love it. Not that good at pass blocking.

Anytime you've got a good running back, it will help your passing game.

A lot of people think a running back is just a guy who lowers his shoulder and runs people over, and that's not my game.

How sad to see a worthless man who claims to know God confirm by running back to the road of self-righteousness that he never met Him.

I think I do deserve more than 11 carries. I think I really do.

Some say that Im their favorite, but I aint hearing none of that. Im about my team, hoe, Young Money running back.

If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks.

I love being a running back. But I really love being a football player.

I'm always running back and forth to the district.

Any time you get a new running back, whether it's a rookie or hasn't played a lot, that's the first thing you test, is their pass protection. That's big.

A lot of the CTE stuff, you see in football, and that's because of the constant collision. These guys are doing it every week, and it's not like the running back is getting this problem, or the quarterback, it's the guys on the front line that keep going into each other. It's those guys.

I cannot believe it, Sean repeated. It's hypocritical. After the shit she gives me for taking risks? And off she goes, running back to Endicott Falls, today? Like, what the fuck ? To be fair, Bruno pointed out. You ran off to shoot people and blow shit up. She went home to go back to work at her bookstore.

Hitting the sled is something a lineman can do to get ready for the season. A running back can't practice, carrying the ball by himself but a lineman can work on his blocking.

In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.

The quarterback of the Washington Redskins, Joe Theismann, turns and hands the ball to running back John Riggins. He watches Riggins run two steps forward, turn, and flip the ball back to him. It's what most people know as a "flea-flicker," but the Redskins call it a "throw back special." Two Mississippi: Theismann searches for a receiver but instead sees Harry Carson coming

Almost any football play, even an off-tackle slant by a running back, offers the balletic beauty of athletic skill and the punishing drama of physical collision.

Every running back has their own strengths and weaknesses. There are some that are better as pass receivers. There are some that are better inside, tight zones and mid zones and outside zones.

I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you're a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want.

I have to go," I said. "Thanks for the tents." I ran all the way back in the rain. But… back to what? It wasn't like this rented patch of dirt was any kind of shelter. It wasn't really much of anything. But just at the moment, it was all we had. I had no choice but to think of it as home.

Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.

Outside again, the river was invisible in the dark, but I could feel it swell and sink beneath the lawn as I ran back to the office, as if the earth were a membrane, a blister, filling up fast with water or blood, as if I were running across the back of a bruise, thinking it was the world.

Without bragging, I've been blessed to have five of the greatest statistical years for a running back.

Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.