Todd Blackledge famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

  • It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.

  • You always catch the wrong players.

  • If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

  • I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

  • Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

  • The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

  • I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

  • Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

  • I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

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