Adam Vinatieri Rare Quotes

Adam Vinatieri Rare Quotese

Anytime I'm on the field, I need to make every kick that's in front of me.

— Adam Vinatieri

I really don't want to be a journeyman.

— Adam Vinatieri

The mental aspect of kicking is the difficult part. Physically, we still have to be in shape and perform on the field, but the thing that separates the ones who make it versus the ones who don't is definitely the mental side.

— Adam Vinatieri

I would compare kicking to being a closer in baseball. This whole game gets played, or the cake is made in front of you, so to speak, and you have to turn around and put the icing on the cake.

— Adam Vinatieri

I'm a Red Sox fan, but I still have a lot of respect for Mariano Rivera, who's the best closer of all-time.

— Adam Vinatieri

As kickers, it's all about being able to block out the crowd noise, being able to block out certain aspects of the game, and just do your job no matter what the circumstances are.

— Adam Vinatieri

Coach Parcells challenged me a lot in my rookie year, and not just in games. Almost every day in practice, he'd stand right beside me as he called for the field-goal team to take the field.

— Adam Vinatieri

I first learned about kicking under pressure in 1996, my rookie year with the Patriots. I was signed as a free agent by a team that already had Matt Bahr, one of the best kickers around. To win the job, I had to show coach Bill Parcells that I could make kicks when they counted. That process started in training camp.

— Adam Vinatieri

In golf, there are times when you hit a ball so perfectly that you never feel the ball leave your club.

— Adam Vinatieri

I learned early that it's very important to approach every single kick you attempt, even those in practice, as if it were in a game.

— Adam Vinatieri

It's fun running out onto the field. It's much more fun playing in the playoffs.

— Adam Vinatieri

Cleaning out your locker the first week of January is not a whole lot of fun and it always leaves a lousy taste in your mouth.

— Adam Vinatieri

I know I'm going to shoot a buffalo.

— Adam Vinatieri

I'm a South Dakota kid.

— Adam Vinatieri

I know I'm going to shoot a leopard.

— Adam Vinatieri

Looking back on it, I'm extremely blessed to play on two very good teams, with great quarterbacks and owners.

— Adam Vinatieri

Three surgeries on the same limb, that's a tall order.

— Adam Vinatieri

When you get one blocked and another partially blocked, you've got to see if you're hitting them low or what.

— Adam Vinatieri

Every once in a while you do have a bad day.

— Adam Vinatieri

There's a lot of fun things about this sport, but trying to hoist that trophy at the end is what we all play for.

— Adam Vinatieri

It would be fun if I were 40 pounds heavier and a little bit faster to get in and play some linebacker.

— Adam Vinatieri

In the end, the Super Bowl is just a football game. You try to take a couple of big, deep breaths and convince yourself it's just another game. You try to, anyway.

— Adam Vinatieri

There's some guys - Michael Jordan and Mariano Rivera and Tiger Woods - that were blessed with the ability just to be... great.

— Adam Vinatieri

If you do something enough with purpose long enough, you're eventually going to get really good at it.

— Adam Vinatieri

NFL Europe helped me quite a bit. It was a situation where I came out of college and spent the first few months of my career over in Europe.

— Adam Vinatieri

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