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At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact. – George Plimpton, Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback, 1965

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I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun. – Pete Gent, quoted by Ray Blount, Jr. in About Three Bricks Shy… And the Load F

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Speed, strength, and the inability to register pain immediately. – Reggie Williams, when asked his greatest strengths as a football player

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To love the Super Bowl, you only have to think what Januarys were like before it came along. – David N. Rosenthal, Time, 1982

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