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NFL QUOTES
by Lawrence Taylor
All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was.
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And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.
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And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.
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As players, we always have a way to get back at you.
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Cocaine is totally different than steroids.
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Drugs and cocaine, you cheat yourself more than you cheat other people, you deprive yourself from being the best you can be.
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I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.
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I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in the zone.
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If I'm going to break them, I'm going to break them both.
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If they play dirty, then you play dirty.
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In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.
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LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more.
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Most of the games don't let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I've been watching these girls.
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People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.
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Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.
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Steroids to me, maybe it will make you bigger and stronger in football, but will it help you hit a baseball? I don't think so.
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Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.
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The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.
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The problem is that everyone needs to know what is banned, what is not banned. These are players, not chemists.
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There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.
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They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.
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You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system.
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You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.
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You have to pay a price and a lot of people, like myself, have to learn the hard way.
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You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.
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