Quotes by Merlin Olsen

“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”

“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”

“Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.”

“The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.”

“One of lifes most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didnt do our homework, that we are not prepared.”

“When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.”

“You are the land. The land is you.”

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.