Lawrence Taylor famous quotes

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Games #Trying #Sake

I'm a cocky sumb**itch. That's what makes me such a great player.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Cocky #Player

Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Football #Heart #Reason

And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Strong #World #Pay

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Sports #Kids #Fans

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Sports #Simple

If I'm going to break them, I'm going to break them both.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Sports #Break

LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Sports #Wilder #Persons

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.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Motivational #Football #Careers

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Sports #Jail #Cop

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.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Sports #Together #Substance

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Sports #Example #Hopefully

I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Sports #Strong #Games

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.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Change #Football #Real

“I'll never bowl with him again. After he got a strike, he spiked the ball.”
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Balls #Bowling #Strikes

Most of the games don't let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I've been watching these girls.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Girl #Games #Focus

Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Guy #Opponents #Want

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.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Player #Years #Nfl

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Stories #Done #Today

Football is not part of that lifestyle anymore.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Football #Lifestyle

First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Sports #Player #Firsts

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Dirty #Play

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.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Motivational #Football #Moving

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.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Motivational #Football #Couple

When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Football #Hurt #Morning

Cocaine is totally different than steroids.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Sports #Different #Cocaine

As players, we always have a way to get back at you.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Sports #Player #Way

Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Sand #Wells #Quentin

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Football #Hurt #Games

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Football #Wanted #Persons

I played one game, and one game played me.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Games

I have a whole different type of lifestyle.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Different #Lifestyle #Type

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Trying #Break #Norm

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.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Reading #Character #Men