Quotes by Troy Aikman - Page 2

I was 0-11 as a starter, and there were times when I walked off the field wondering if I'd ever win a game in the NFL.
Troy Aikman / American Football Player
Nfl
Starter
Walked
Wondering
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When I work a Cowboys game, my social media will blow up with, 'Hey, don't forget who you played for,' or, 'You traitor.'
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Blow
Traitor
Cowboys
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The thing I've always liked about the playoffs is the finality of it and knowing there's so much importance on every play.
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Finality
Importance
Playoffs
Liked
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No matter what happens for the rest of my career, at least I can say I took my team to a Super Bowl, and I was able to win.
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Super Bowl
Bowl
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I've lived in Texas now longer than anywhere and then California and then Oklahoma, but yet Oklahoma is what I consider home.
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Oklahoma
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I think having won a Super Bowl puts you on a different level. I know, for me, it's extremely important to win this ballgame.
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Ballgame
Super Bowl
Bowl
Different Level
Me Win Important
Puts
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A lot of coaches and players get so tunnel-visioned that when they do have some time off, they spend it concentrating on the game.
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Coaches
Concentrating
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I have been playing this game since I was 7 years old, and to all of a sudden recognize that you're not going to do it anymore is hard.
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Sudden
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I didn't know anybody who went to Rangers games. Then, when they started winning and going to World Series, everybody's wearing Rangers hats.
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Hats
Rangers
World Series
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I believe success is achieved by acquiring and developing talented, respected, and credible individuals, none of which applies to Skip Bayless.
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Credible
Developing
Skip
Success Believe I Believe
Achieved
Success Is
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As a former player, I have a real appreciation for a guy like Aaron Rodgers and how much time he puts into his craft and how good he is doing it.
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Appreciation
Former
Aaron
Time Good Doing
Craft
How Much Time
Puts
Rodgers
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I don't want to be the poster boy for head injury. I shouldn't be the poster boy for head injury. I have really tried to distance myself from that.
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Distance
Poster
Poster Boy
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To say, 'I don't worry about perception,' you better worry about perception because it's a big part of making it through some very difficult times.
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Difficult Times
Perception
Worry
Big Part
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I sometimes get frustrated with how important Dallas Cowboys' football is to people. It's extremely important to me, too, but football is what I do.
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Dallas
Frustrated
Football Me People
Cowboys
Football Me Important
Dallas Cowboys
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I'm happy to do some endorsements if I believe in the product. You're only in this game a short time, and you want to collect the money while you can.
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Short Time
Collect
Time Money Believe
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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.
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Contradiction
Safety
Extend
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They portray me as a hick just because I enjoy some of the things people in Oklahoma like. I think people expect me to come out wearing my boots and spurs.
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Boots
Oklahoma
Spurs
Portray
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I probably would have played baseball if I had stayed in California... But I like Oklahoma better now. Football is bigger here. It's more exciting, anyway.
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Better Now
Oklahoma
Stayed
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As long as we're wearing helmets and shoulder pads - there's collisions between these big, physical, fast guys - head injuries are going to be a part of it.
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Pads
Fast
Wearing
Injuries
Physical
Shoulder
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I don't think I can fully explain what happens when you take on the role of quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. Sometimes, I can't even explain it to myself.
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Dallas
Quarterback
Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys
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It's one thing if you're a part of teams that won five championships. But it's an extremely different argument if you're a big reason for those championships.
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Championships
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I do not have a son; if I had a son, I wouldn't necessarily discourage him from playing football, but I don't know that I would encourage him to play, either.
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Discourage
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If you're healthy and you're told that you're capable of playing and the medical staff signs off on it, to me, you play because that's what you are paid to do.
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Capable
Healthy
Paid
Staff
Signs
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As the equipment has gotten better - and it's gotten better in an attempt to try to protect the player more - then the equipment becomes used more as a weapon.
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Equipment
Protect
Attempt
Becomes
Better More Try
Gotten
Weapon
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You get down on yourself. You get disappointed in yourself. I expect more out of myself. As far as losing confidence as far as what I can do, that won't ever happen.
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Disappointed
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I always have been comfortable with my opinions and how I feel about the play on the field, and how it should be done and how teams should go about playing the game.
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Comfortable
Always Done Game
Opinions
Teams
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I am not too open of a person. I don't really understand why someone holding a notepad and pen thinks he can ask me anything and then is offended when I don't answer.
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Offended
Ask
I Am Me Person
Open
Holding
Pen
Thinks
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Look, the only way for me to enjoy the game is to be consumed by it, to compete at a level where I know, at the end of that game, that my teammates and I did our absolute best.
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Consumed
Best Me Game
Absolute
Teammates
Best Game Me
Compete
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When you start looking at guys like Brett Favre, for instance, and other great quarterbacks that have played - Peyton Manning - you say, 'Gosh, how will these guys be replaced?'
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Instance
Quarterback
Replaced
Gosh
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I always play every game in my mind before it begins. A lot of times in a game, a play will happen, and it will feel like deja vu, like I've seen the play happen before in my mind.
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Deja Vu
Begins
Deja
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I had two concussions that were of major concern, what I would term very significant. As far as head injury goes, I would say all of the others were pretty minor and inconsequential.
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Concern
Inconsequential
Significant
Minor
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It doesn't matter how tough you are. It doesn't matter how smart you are or what a great leader you are. None of that stuff matters if you can't put the ball where you have to put it.
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Great Leader
Leader
Matter
Smart
Stuff
Tough
Ball
None
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A lot of people believe that I retired from the game of football because of concussions - that is not accurate. I really retired primarily because of a degenerative back condition that I had.
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Accurate
Retired
Condition
Primarily
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I wish there was a switch that I could flip, where no one knows me. And then, when I'm ready to make a splash, I'd flip the switch and say, 'Hey, I'm ready now.' Unfortunately, that doesn't happen.
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Flip
Hey
Ready
Wish
Me Wish I Wish
Unfortunately
Happen
Splash
Switch
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Because the hash marks are narrower in the pros, the ball's always closer to the middle of the field. So if you're a defensive back, you can wait a lot longer before committing to a certain part of the field.
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Hash
Ball
Closer
Committing
Defensive
Field
Wait
Marks
Narrower
Pros
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I've said for many, many years, as long as I can ever remember, when I'm asked, 'Hey, what do you look for first in a quarterback?' The first thing I look for is accuracy, because the rest of it doesn't matter.
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Accuracy
Quarterback
Remember When
First Thing
The First Thing
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I would bet you that even though people think I absorbed an inordinate number of head injuries, I'd say relative to the number of guys who have played this game, I would say that my head injuries were relatively small.
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Relative
Absorb
Game People Who
Bet
Injuries
Inordinate
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As a quarterback, I appreciated the passer rating whether you threw the ball a majority of the time or if you didn't throw it as much. You were judged on a level playing field, and I thought teams should be ranked similarly.
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Appreciated
Judged
Level Playing Field
Quarterback
Rating
Playing Field
Ranked
Similarly
Threw
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I believe - and this is my opinion - that at some point, football is not going to be the No. 1 sport. You talk about the ebbs and flows of what's popular and what's not. At some point, the TV ratings are not going to be there.
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Football
Opinion
Talk
Tv
Sport
Football Believe I Believe
Flows
Popular
Point
Ratings
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The only way you're gonna eliminate helmet-to-helmet contact is to take the helmets off. Go back to leather helmets. I mean, I think a defensive player would be much less inclined to lead with his head if he had no protection.
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Contact
Leather
Protection
Way Back Go
Eliminate
Inclined
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I'm not here to propel myself into the limelight. I'm here to win a football game. If I am propelled into the limelight, I want it to be because of what I do on the football field, not because of some grand marketing strategy.
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Football Field
Football Game
Limelight
Marketing
Strategy
Myself Football Game
Grand
Propel
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The one thing about being an athlete, say you are struggling with throwing a comeback route, well, then you go out and practice it. You throw it 100 times a day, and you get better at it, and you see those improvements pretty rapidly.
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Athlete
Comeback
Throwing
Rapidly
Route
Struggling
The One Thing
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The year we went to our first Super Bowl in 1992, we were the youngest team in football. We played in the Super Bowl against a team that had a wealth of playoff experience and Super Bowl experience, and we dominated that football game.
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Football
Super Bowl
Wealth
Played
Bowl
Dominated
Super
Youngest
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As long as we're having contact and as long as there are collisions, there's going to be head injuries. What the long-term consequences are of that, we're beginning to learn, and that definitely will have an impact on the game as we know it.
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Contact
Long Term
Injuries
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I'll never forget when I was 12 years old. I couldn't wait until the day I was 16 and could drive a car. I thought that'd be the end of life's problems. I mean, you can drive! What is there left? And then I turned 16 and realized there were still problems.
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Never Forget
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If you do anything with the Cowboys, there's an interest in it. And there are people who constantly want to write books about our teams in the '90s. They want to interview me. I say, 'Look, I've done it a million times. I'm just not interested. What's left to tell?'
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Not Interested
Done Me Look
Cowboys
Look Me People
Interview
Million Times
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Not long ago, every time I did a picture shoot for a magazine, the photographer would ask me to show up wearing jeans and cowboy boots. They seemed to think I was a hillbilly. Now it's different. Now they're not quite sure what to make of me. And I show up wearing whatever I want.
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Boots
Cowboy
Hillbilly
Jeans
Photographer
Time Me Long
Time Long Me
Magazine
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We go in with eyes wide open and recognize there will be a lot of hard work involved. But we anticipate having success. We feel like we have assembled a great group of people. If we were going to do it any other way, we would have made an announcement a long time ago. We were very diligent.
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Eye
Hard Work
Long
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It is relatively easy... to determine whether or not a blow to a quarterback was deemed excessive or incidental. So I'm discouraged that there have been a number of games that are influenced - not that the outcomes are in question - but a number of games influenced based on the protection of the quarterback.
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Blow
Determine
Discouraged
Outcomes
Protection
Quarterback
Deemed
Excessive
Incidental
Influenced
Relatively
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