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“My insomnia had gotten so bad recently that my boss pulled me aside more than once and ordered me to go home early, a humiliation I didn’t need. I got it, though. Climbing power poles and working with electricity was no joke, and safety was critical. I had to do better.”

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Author:October C. Moore

“Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that.”

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Author:Dante Hall

“Offensive linemen are like salt. Nobody ever remembers the brand they buy.”

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Author:Blaine Nye

“I was a defensive lineman coming out of high school who was considered amongst the top maybe the top six guys, top five guys, and wanted to prove to my team that I was going to be a top guy going into college.”

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Author:Ndamukong Suh

“You continue to build and work on new things, and continue to beat offensive linemen, week in and week out.”

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Author:Ndamukong Suh

“maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.”

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Book:Flight to Yesterday

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“I think some people just don't know that much about comedy. It would be like a person who didn't know anything about football thinking all offensive linemen are the same.”

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Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I would have all my offensive linemen wrestle if I could.”

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Author:John Madden

“I really like to play inside. I really like being able to go one-on-one with an offensive lineman every play. At defensive end, you're more running up the field and containing more than you are just against an offensive lineman.”

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Author:Darrion Scott

“I like to compare the two to a quarterback and a lineman. Being a brakeman is very physical and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters. Your position is won or lost by the hundredths of seconds you are faster than another individual. It's like the lineman who is there mostly for their athleticism and physicality. The driver, like the quarterback, possesses a unique skill that takes a lot longer to learn.”

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Author:Elana Meyers

“Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.”

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Author:Tony Gonzalez

“I see more now. As far as concepts, I know where teammates are going, linemen are going. I can read defensive fronts. I can read the body language of linebackers. I study film to see who's a bull rusher and who's a finesse rusher. I think I've learned.”

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Author:Brandon Jacobs

“I feel like I've helped create a new standard of hustle for defensive linemen.”

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Author:Jevon Kearse

“I don't want to be one of those players that is just a first, second or third down player. I want to be a four-down player, able to play in the ground and dirt with the linemen, but also able to play in space.”

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Author:Justin Cole

“Every great team that I've been on, the offensive linemen was the bell cows of the whole team.”

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Author:Scott Frost

“The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.”

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Author:Knute Rockne

“When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.”

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Author:Tom Brady

“I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.”

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Author:Earl Campbell

“Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.”

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Author:Dennis Miller

“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.”

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Author:Merlin Olsen

“I can tell Tajh Boyd is scared back there. He ain't no sitting duck, but you can see in his eyes that he's scared of our D-linemen. We know that coming into the game that we have him shook already. We get a couple hits on him and it changes the whole game. He's scared every time we play them. I know he's probably listening to this right now, but I'm just telling the truth, man.”

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Author:Jadeveon Clowney

“I didn't say what I said to be controversial just because most people are picking the Patriots to win. I consider myself a pretty good judge of talent when it comes to defensive linemen and the Panthers' biggest strength is their defensive line. You win the battle of the trenches and that goes a long way to winning the game.”

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Author:Warren Sapp

“I am a lineman for the county.”

Author:Glen Campbell

“You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You’re sacking them. You’re bagging them. And that’s what you’re doing with a quarterback.”

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Author:Deacon Jones

“Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies.”

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Author:Dan Fouts

“I feel like as a linebacker or a D-lineman, any cut, it's a man sport -- be a man, hit me up high, Hit like rams. You don't see a ram going and cutting another ram's legs. They hit head to head, pad to pad.”

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Author:Patrick Willis

“To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.”

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Author:Jerry Kramer

“If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.”

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Author:Barry Sanders

“I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.”

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Author:Jack Youngblood

“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.”