Sunday Snippet: Super Bowl Edition
February 7th, 2010 by Michael Kwan
To help prepare for the final game in the NFL post-season, I thought I’d dedicated this edition of the Sunday Snippet to a series of quotes from football personalities. It would impossible to list all the great football quotes from over the years, so I had to select just a few. If you have a favorite football-related quote to share, feel free to let everyone know about it through the comment form below!
Let’s get started. Huddle up!
Brett Favre:
“You’re never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they’re in front of you.”
Yes, many people aren’t happy with Brett Favre’s decisions to retire, unretire, retire, and then unretire again, but you have to acknowledge that he is easily one of the best quarterbacks in NFL history. He knows to seize every opportunity, because you can’t know when you’ll have another chance.
Bill Belichick:
“You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120%, but if one guy is out of position then someone’s running through the line of scrimmage and he’s going to gain a bunch of yards.”
New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick got all caught up in that Spygate scandal leading up to Super Bowl XLII, but he is still an expert strategist. At the same time, he also knows that you can’t control everything. The entire team has to be on the same page and put in the same exceptional effort.
Drew Brees:
“You can’t give the other team an opportunity when we have them 21-3 to come back and make it almost a 21-17 game…. Our offense played winning football. We didn’t play championship football.”
Will the former Chargers QB lead the Saints to their first ever Super Bowl victory? This is the first ever Super Bowl appearance for New Orleans, so they’ve already outperformed all expectations. Now they need to show that they can play championship football.
Peyton Manning:
“You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.”
The Indianapolis Colts quarterback has been to the big dance before, so he has a slightly different perspective than Drew Brees. Remember that a single great act may not be able to negate several poor efforts. Don’t be a victim of “too little, too late.”
Vince Lombardi:
“If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, why do they keep score?”
Or, as Homer Simpson once so eloquently paraphrased, “Remember what Vince Lombardi said. If you lose, you’re out of the family!”
Tags: memorable quotes, motivation, super bowl
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I disagree with Brett Farve being one of the NFL’s all time greats. He won 1 Superbowl and had the good fortune to have good receivers and not get injured. He played so many games that he built up his stat’s, especially in the old NFC Central where the teams sucked every year for the most part.
Well, at least I was right about my prediction about the Bengals in that old post.
Your prediction for the winner of Super Bowl came through!
Yup! Did you manage to watch the game from work?
Unfortunately NO! That possibilty was too far-fetched! I was tearing my hair out being trapped in the cubicle & reading the live twitter feed.
I predict the Saints will win too. What? I’m too late?
The disappointing thing is that there didn’t seem to be a strong batch of commercials this year.
Well, hindsight is 20/20
As with Michael, I predicted the Super Bowl and the winner. Does that get me any swag Michael?
To be fair, I predicted a Saints/Colts final with a Saints win too.
Hindsight is only 20/20 until you throw in quantum mechanics. Then hindsight and foresight become equally unpredictable.
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