Linemen Quotes
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I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
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Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies.
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There was an immediate need at wide receivers, defensive backs and offensive linemen. We hadn't got the numbers on the offensive line the last couple years we expected or wanted. So I wanted to go in and get a minimum of five offensive linemen. Sewed that up early. That was probably our major emphasis. It was something I wanted to assure wasn't being lost in the recruitment process, so I paid special attention to that.
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Offensive linemen are like salt. Nobody ever remembers the brand they buy.
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Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.
