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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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My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head… I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault. – Jack Tatum, They Call Me Assassin, 1979

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