Quotes by Adam Vinatieri - Page 2

A lot of people can kick a ball a long way, but sometimes you get in a little funk and you work your way out of it.
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Funk
Long Way
Work Long People
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I know my body needs to have the proper nutrition so that I can keep kicking at a high level. The same goes with sleep.
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High Level
Nutrition
Body Needs
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This is a hard enough sport when you're giving 100 percent. If you're giving anything less than that, it'll swallow you up.
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Swallow
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Making the playoffs is hard to come by, so if you can help contribute to your team's success it's always a successful time.
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Playoffs
Success Time Always
Contribute
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Cleaning out your locker the first week of January is not a whole lot of fun and it always leaves a lousy taste in your mouth.
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Cleaning
January
Taste
Lousy
Leaves
Locker
Mouth
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There's some guys - Michael Jordan and Mariano Rivera and Tiger Woods - that were blessed with the ability just to be... great.
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Jordan
Woods
Michael Jordan
Tiger
Tiger Woods
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Ask a receiver, can we take his gloves off because he's catching the ball too well? Nobody is going to be overly happy about that.
Adam Vinatieri /
Catching
Gloves
Receiver
Overly
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I learned early that it's very important to approach every single kick you attempt, even those in practice, as if it were in a game.
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Attempt
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Will I still get a slice of pizza? Will I drink a beer or two? Absolutely. You still have to live, but I try to do things in moderation.
Adam Vinatieri /
Beer
Pizza
Slice
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Obviously this all-time leading scorer thing I knew was out there and I thought, 'Man, if I stay healthy, I would like to reach that goal.'
Adam Vinatieri /
All Time
Scorer
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NFL Europe helped me quite a bit. It was a situation where I came out of college and spent the first few months of my career over in Europe.
Adam Vinatieri /
Nfl
Me Situation Where
Quite A Bit
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I was born with a shotgun in my hand, chasing pheasant through the cornfields. My dad probably started taking me out when I was 4, 5 or 6 years old.
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Chasing
Shotgun
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People think kickers in general kick field goals. But kickers are actually good athletes; we run and work out just like the rest of the football team.
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Football Team
Work Out
General
Athletes
Work Good Football
Field
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Every kicker that's in this league has kicked a million or so balls. You just have that swing; you know what you have to do, and you go out there and do it.
Adam Vinatieri /
League
Million
Swing
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You've got to trust your steps, trust your guys that are on the field with you, and when the ball is on the ground, you've got to do that every single time.
Adam Vinatieri /
Steps
Trust Time Your
Every Single Time
Single Time
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Yeah, at the end of the year you always sit back and you evaluate, and unless you have a perfect season with no misses there is always room for improvement.
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Evaluate
Improvement
Misses
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I think you can develop your ability to be clutch, if that's the word that you will use, your ability to focus and to be able to block out all the external stuff.
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Clutch
External
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In the end, the Super Bowl is just a football game. You try to take a couple of big, deep breaths and convince yourself it's just another game. You try to, anyway.
Adam Vinatieri /
Convince
Football Game
Super Bowl
Football Yourself Game
Bowl
In The End
Football Game Yourself
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Preparation meets opportunity, and that causes success if you're prepared to do your job and you practice a lot, more times than not you're going to be successful.
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Causes
Practice
Preparation
Meets
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I think anybody that has had a bad game, or, I dunno, I guess if you go out golfing and you hook a couple balls, are you thinking about it until you get it figured out?
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Golfing
Hook
Bad Game
Figured
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As a football player, as a kid and as a professional athlete the moment of playing in the Super Bowl and winning a Super Bowl, that's what you play your whole career for.
Adam Vinatieri /
Football Player
Professional Athlete
Super Bowl
Bowl
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As kickers, it's all about being able to block out the crowd noise, being able to block out certain aspects of the game, and just do your job no matter what the circumstances are.
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Block
Noise
Aspects
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Coach Parcells challenged me a lot in my rookie year, and not just in games. Almost every day in practice, he'd stand right beside me as he called for the field-goal team to take the field.
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Almost Every Day
Beside
Challenged
Rookie
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I would compare kicking to being a closer in baseball. This whole game gets played, or the cake is made in front of you, so to speak, and you have to turn around and put the icing on the cake.
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Cake
Compare
Icing
Closer
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There's a brotherhood with the specialists. There's not many of them and we don't get any respect, so we have to show a little respect for each other. We have to help each other out if we have the opportunity.
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Brotherhood
Specialists
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I suppose any person who's played somewhere for a certain amount of time and then has the opportunity to go back and just reminisce a little bit, maybe it holds a different feeling than some of the other places.
Adam Vinatieri /
Opportunity
Amount
Little Bit
Played
Somewhere
Holds
Suppose
Maybe
Places
Reminisce
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I have to admit I've dreamed of kicking the game-winning field goal in the Super Bowl many times. That's the fun thing about being a kicker, you never know when it's going to come down to your kick deciding the game.
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Super Bowl
Bowl
Deciding
Dreamed
Fun Thing
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The mental aspect of kicking is the difficult part. Physically, we still have to be in shape and perform on the field, but the thing that separates the ones who make it versus the ones who don't is definitely the mental side.
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Versus
Separates
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Will it make the game safer for people by moving the extra point back to a 43-yarder? If anything, players are going to rush harder because they're thinking, 'That far of a field goal-type try, we have to go after blocking it more.'
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Blocking
Extra
Rush
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One thing I always noticed out of Bill Parcells is that he always wanted a good class of blue-collar, hardworking guys that he felt like he could win games with that way... When the difficult times came about he knew who was going to perform.
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Blue Collar
Difficult Times
Hardworking
Good Always Difficult
Noticed
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I've played with some of the best that have ever played, obviously. I don't know if there is anybody that is a better technician than Peyton Manning. Tom Brady is another quarterback that I was fortunate enough to play with for a bunch of years.
Adam Vinatieri /
Brady
Quarterback
Technician
Tom
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On teams that have won championships and got to the big game, there's a certain vibe and feel in that locker room. Everyone talks about how there's a brotherhood in that locker room, there's not a lot of dissent, there's not guys that go off on their own. It's a team atmosphere.
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Atmosphere
Brotherhood
Dissent
Locker Room
Championships
Won
Guys
Locker
Talks
Teams
Vibe
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Coming from a small South Dakota school, it was a different route to get to the NFL. I went from South Dakota State to the World League of American Football with the Amsterdam Admirals, and fortunately I did well enough there that the New England Patriots decided to sign me and give me a chance.
Adam Vinatieri /
American Football
Amsterdam
Dakota
Decided
England
Football
Give Me
League
New England
South Dakota
Chance World Me
Fortunately
Patriots
Route
Sign
Well Enough
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I first learned about kicking under pressure in 1996, my rookie year with the Patriots. I was signed as a free agent by a team that already had Matt Bahr, one of the best kickers around. To win the job, I had to show coach Bill Parcells that I could make kicks when they counted. That process started in training camp.
Adam Vinatieri /
Agent
Counted
Matt
Patriots
Rookie
Signed
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