Fab 100 Selected Quotes From Brian Urlacher
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| Fab 100 Selected Quotes From Brian Urlacher |
Fab 100 Selected Quotes From Brian Urlacher
You know, there are a lot of things that I really enjoy doing that you can get hurt doing. Driving a car, you can get into a wreck. I love to fly. You get on an airplane and you could die, too. When you step on a plane, it's your option to step on that plane because it could crash.
— Brian Urlacher
I spend a lot of time with my family and I ride my mountain bike almost every day.
— Brian Urlacher
There's risk in everything that you do. It's up to you to measure those risks and do what you want to do.
— Brian Urlacher
In Arizona, there's mountains behind my house.
— Brian Urlacher
My whole career, I was pretty much bald. So, people just got to know me as being a bald guy.
— Brian Urlacher
I did wonder what it would be like if I could have hair.
— Brian Urlacher
I played defense, so I don't like when guys celebrate with dances and stuff.
— Brian Urlacher
You know who I like the way he celebrates is Peyton. He kind of gives the guy a handshake and goes back to the sidelines. I think that's a great celebration right there.
— Brian Urlacher
I'm a huge Ron Rivera fan, I played for Ron for three years in Chicago.
— Brian Urlacher
See I'm used to seeing myself with hair now, so it's not a big deal. Now when I see pictures of me bald I'm like 'ew.' But people are used to seeing me bald so when I'm walking around without the hat on, I see people doing a lot of double takes.
— Brian Urlacher
I've gotten a hundred pictures of guys making fun of me.
— Brian Urlacher
I've got so many things I can do now with my hair. I put gel in it sometimes - it's great.
— Brian Urlacher
If you don't want to play and get concussed, then don't play. It's your career, it's your life. You have to make that decision on your own.
— Brian Urlacher
Yeah, I mean there's points in every game where you get a hit and you feel a little woozy. Not every game, but mostly every game you hit someone and you're like, 'Whoa, that was a good one.'
— Brian Urlacher
I think they shouldn't allow cut blocks, because our knees are important to us, too. I know concussions are a big deal, too, but I think knee, cut blocks are a big deal, but that seems to be OK with the NFL. So they're not too concerned about safety, obviously.
— Brian Urlacher
A knee injury could put you out for a season. A concussion, you may miss a game or two. Huge difference.
— Brian Urlacher
Two of the people I don't care about: fans or media.
— Brian Urlacher
I know there are a lot of experts in the media - a bunch of smart guys out there who know exactly what they're talking about all the time. They don't know what they're talking about.
— Brian Urlacher
I want to be somewhere where somebody wants me.
— Brian Urlacher
I hope Mitch Trubisky is the best quarterback of all time.
— Brian Urlacher
There could probably be a penalty called on every single play. So the refs have a tough job.
— Brian Urlacher
As a football player, your mentality is that you're going to win the Super Bowl. You have to think that when you're playing the game.
— Brian Urlacher
I was honestly the No. 1 Cowboys fan as a kid.
— Brian Urlacher
When you change defenses, it's the same thing a lot of times. But different terminology means different things in that new defense. So you have to get accustomed to that. You have to study. Get in your books and pay attention.
— Brian Urlacher
When the play is over, it's over.
— Brian Urlacher
I don't give a crap about what fans or people say, they can kiss my butt.
— Brian Urlacher
You know, the Bears know I want to be here. I've said it publically and that's not going to change.
— Brian Urlacher
I wouldn't want to be a DB in the NFL. They've got no chance. There's no contact down the field, but fans want to see points.
— Brian Urlacher
We're defenseless, I know we play defense, but we're defenseless when we're not looking at the guy who's blocking us or when the guy's come out and cut out our knees from underneath us.
— Brian Urlacher
I know what being a star athlete means.
— Brian Urlacher
I'm hyper, goofy. I always have to be moving, doing something.
— Brian Urlacher
My mom is my heart.
— Brian Urlacher
I'm uncomfortable doing commercials.
— Brian Urlacher
First of all, we love football. We want to be on the football field as much as we can be. If we can be out there, it may be stupid, it may be dumb, call me dumb and stupid then, because that's what... I want to be on the football field.
— Brian Urlacher
As a player, I just want to be remembered as a good teammate, that's it.
— Brian Urlacher
Every moment, every practice, every game, everywhere; I just love competing. Competition is in my DNA.
— Brian Urlacher
I respected opponents as well as teammates and coaches.
— Brian Urlacher
I may be one of the most competitive people you ever know. I want to win every snap, every game, even though it was not possible... it really wasn't about the conquest, it was about the challenge.
— Brian Urlacher
I love the Bears.
— Brian Urlacher
I'm always going to be a Bears fan. Nothing's going to change there.
— Brian Urlacher
There are no hard feelings between me and the Bears' organization. I had a great run here.
— Brian Urlacher
I don't think I would be very good on TV broadcasting games.
— Brian Urlacher
There's no doubt in my mind I'll finish my career with the Bears. However that works out, it works out. I can't imagine playing anywhere else.
— Brian Urlacher
It doesn't change the way we play, I'll tell you that much. If we hit a guy and get fined, we get fined.
— Brian Urlacher
We used to establish the run and wear teams down and try not to make mistakes, and we'd rely on our defense to keep us in the game and make big plays to put us in position to win. Kyle Orton might not be the flashiest quarterback, but the guy is a winner, and that formula worked for us.
— Brian Urlacher
I don't care what's legal and what's not. I'm going to play the way I play.
— Brian Urlacher
I love Chicago. I love the big city. But, remember, I come from a town, Lovington, N.M., that only has 8,000 people.
— 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.
— Brian Urlacher
Our goal is to outplay the other team's defense every game - it doesn't matter who we're playing.
— Brian Urlacher
I've gotten into spats with coaches, players, as well. It's just what happens in the NFL.
— Brian Urlacher
Someone's always saying something about me.
— Brian Urlacher
I can deal with the criticism of myself. I get mad when people talk about my teammates.
— Brian Urlacher
Coming from a small town in New Mexico - Lovington, New Mexico - I was very happy to go to college for free and get a scholarship to play college football.
— Brian Urlacher
If your quarterback can't make plays in certain situations for you to win games, he's not getting the job done.
— Brian Urlacher
It's nice of guys to actually want to even pick my brain a little bit.
— Brian Urlacher
It's a great honor to be associated with the Hall of Fame and now to be in it. It's awesome.
— Brian Urlacher
Danieal Manning is a friend of mine, he was a teammate for five or six years, and that's the way it is.
— Brian Urlacher
When the ball is snapped I want to tackle the other guy, the other team is my enemy.
— Brian Urlacher
I'm not going to take it easy on the guy when he catches the football and not try and hit him because he's a friend of mine. It doesn't happen.
— Brian Urlacher
It's just dumb that people think that. 'Why did you help that guy up after you tackled him?' Because I wanted to. What's the big deal? 'Butkus would have never done that.' Well, I'm not Dick Butkus. I'm Brian Urlacher, and sometimes I help people up.
— Brian Urlacher
I mean, all kinds of good memories against Favre. Even when we lost, it was fun playing against him.
— Brian Urlacher
I was a huge Brett Favre fan, because how could you not like him as a kid playing football? Then getting a chance to play against him was pretty damn cool.
— Brian Urlacher
I had one major concussion. It's different for each guy. For me, it was never an issue because I didn't have an issue with concussions.
— Brian Urlacher
My lone concussion occurred in 2003 against Denver. I was spinning off block and right when I spun, I hit Clinton Portis with my head turned sideways. I hit him and I hit the ground. That was first big one where I was like 'Whoa.' Back then, it was no big deal.
— Brian Urlacher
Ricky Williams, in my opinion, was one of the better guys in the league.
— Brian Urlacher
Marshawn, he's hard to tackle. I only played against him a couple of times. We did OK against him in Chicago when I was there.
— Brian Urlacher
Anytime you lose, nothing really matters except winning.
— Brian Urlacher
People realize that when you win, you obviously have some good players on your team.
— Brian Urlacher
I wasn't the greatest technician when I played.
— Brian Urlacher
Technique wasn't my favorite thing to learn, and I doubt I would be great teaching it.
— Brian Urlacher
I'm not a very good coach.
— Brian Urlacher
I don't like a snug-fit helmet.
— Brian Urlacher
Yeah during the bye week I watch games. I usually do something with my family. We'll go away for a couple of days or something, but I definitely watch football on that Sunday afternoon.
— Brian Urlacher
I watch a lot of college football.
— Brian Urlacher
I'm not a big watch sports on TV guy unless it's football.
— Brian Urlacher
I like playing with Lance. Lance Briggs is great.
— Brian Urlacher
Coach Marinelli's defense is incredible.
— Brian Urlacher
I played for Marinelli I think my last four, five years in Chicago. He's awesome.
— Brian Urlacher
Darren Woodson is my favorite player of all time.
— Brian Urlacher
I've never been a big fan of me, me, me.
— Brian Urlacher
Jay Cutler is a first-round pick, had a great arm, etc. It's just - he's offense, I'm defense. We didn't get a chance to interact as much as we should have, maybe.
— Brian Urlacher
I'll always be a Chicago Bear no matter where I end up or where I retire, whatever happens.
— Brian Urlacher
When I started playing the game I was just worried about making that next tackle. Especially as a rookie, you're figuring out what you're doing and where you're supposed to be going, what the defense is, and trying not to make mistake.
— Brian Urlacher
Toward the end of my career, people started talking Hall of Fame, but still, you don't ever think you're going to end up there.
— Brian Urlacher
Chicago Bears tradition speaks for itself.
— Brian Urlacher
Fantasy football brought a ton more people to the game.
— Brian Urlacher
Football, we pretty much control what we do and how we react, and there are two days we couldn't, on the draft and on the selection for the Hall of Fame.
— Brian Urlacher
Football was easy because I knew what I was doing, and it was in my control.
— Brian Urlacher
See, I was fine being bald, because I have a good-shaped head.
— Brian Urlacher
I can't go back and change how many tackles I had, how many picks. What I've done is what I've done.
— Brian Urlacher
Tarik Cohen, he's an exciting guy.
— Brian Urlacher
The treadmill and the damn elliptical - they get so boring to me.
— Brian Urlacher
Win or lose, I'm up all night. I've been that way since college - I'm going over everything in my head: woulda, coulda, shoulda.
— Brian Urlacher
I lead by example.
— Brian Urlacher
I really like United States so I pay attention to what goes on here. I don't really pay attention to what goes on overseas or in other countries, unless it affects us, then I'll pay attention.
— Brian Urlacher
Anything that's on Discovery or Nat Geo, I'm pretty much watching it.
— Brian Urlacher
I do watch some kind of terrible shows on VH1, 'Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood,' 'Basketball Wives.' Those are like my guilty pleasures. When I want to see some drama, I'll watch those.
— Brian Urlacher
You only notice long snappers when they screw up.
— Brian Urlacher
I never would have thought, during my playing days, that there would be a team in Las Vegas.
— Brian Urlacher
People like to have fun, and what better way to have fun than go to a football or baseball or basketball game in Vegas?
— Brian Urlacher
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