Hunter S. Thompson

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

American Journalist

Jason McCourty

Corner is probably different from safeties and linebackers, but I think the important part is coming out each and every day competing, not only trying to get yourself better but also for us on defense pushing the offense as much as we possibly can so we can just improve totally as a team.

American Football Player

Chris Borland

My breadth of football experience, my injury history, and my all-or-nothing goal to become one of the best linebackers in the NFL, combined with all I'd been learning about the game's neurological effects on the brain, convinced me I'd be wise in choosing another career.

American Athlete

Martellus Bennett

I don't want to inspire the next generation of tight ends or linebackers to play the game. If I could inspire the next generation of architects and technology leaders and writers and illustrators and film directors, then I feel like I have fulfilled my life purpose.

Walter Payton

Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.

Brian Urlacher

I wondered if teams were going to find a place for me, but the Bears said linebacker right away. I tried outside linebacker first and I was terrible. Then inside seemed to fit me.

Eric Reid

I prefer safety. That's what I've played my whole life, but if the team needs me to play linebacker, then I'll do it.

Junior Seau

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

Sean Evans

It's not easy to be stylish as a linebacker.

American Entertainer

Lawrence Timmons

Understand that a linebacker is a specific position in football with responsibilities in defense.

Football Role

Know the types: outside linebackers cover edges, inside/middle linebackers cover the field's center.

Position Variants

Linebackers are typically strong and agile to tackle effectively and make quick decisions.

Physicality

 This is the exact offensive match-up that they the best receiver lined up against the linebacker. Quarterback steps back to receive the ball, five yards deep in the gun. He takes a snap, drops three steps, he plants his back foot, he's looking for an opening. There's a blitz coming off the edge! He steps up to avoid the rush. He's looking down field.

Gridiron physics:...

 world and doing so many things what's one that I would never expect I started off as a high school football star grew up in a very tough neighborhood in Miami had a very modest and humble beginnings at the time I played fullback and linebacker 197

Barrington Irving:...

 And it's OK if we need somebody to help us snap out of it. For me, that was my wife, a military guy, a maniac linebacker or an eccentric coach.