Morten Andersen

I'm a wine nerd.

— Morten Andersen

I'm trying to leave a legacy.

— Morten Andersen

I'm proud to be Danish.

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I get extremely homesick.

— Morten Andersen

Performance feedback is important.

— Morten Andersen

I value the long snapper and holder.

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I want to know for sure that I left everything on the field.

— Morten Andersen

I truly have lived the American dream.

— Morten Andersen

Let's end the rhetoric that kickers are just a sideshow.

— Morten Andersen

I love putting the exclamation point on a game.

— Morten Andersen

I didn't grow up with the pressure to perform.

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It's always fun to pass the wisdom on to the next generation.

— Morten Andersen

The goal of every athlete in the NFL is to make it to the Super Bowl.

— Morten Andersen

I would venture to say that every kicker out there has had probably at least one or two concussions.

— Morten Andersen

My mom and dad encouraged my brother and I to travel and broaden our horizons.

— Morten Andersen

I have great admiration of the spirit of the people of New Orleans. They love life and stay positive.

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You have to be ready at all times. You never know when the big kicks are going to come.

— Morten Andersen

If your ears and eyes are open to new possibilities and opportunities, they are right in front of you sometimes.

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I'm just very fortunate that Bum Phillips gave me a chance to stay around for a couple years.

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The mental training and visualisation I did, making practice more difficult than games, gave me an advantage on gameday.

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I get acupuncture a couple of times a week, and I get massage therapy. They'll work the ankles, make sure they're not…

— Morten Andersen

I do mental training throughout the week. I take myself through specific game situations so when they come up I've rehearsed them.

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The key, and you can talk without exception to anybody out there, former players, Pro Football Hall of Famers, gold jackets... What…

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Is the Pro Football Hall of Fame important to players to feel they belong? Of course it is. It's the pinnacle but…

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Consistency, health and a desire to compete. To compete and excel at what I do. That and having good people around you…

— Morten Andersen

When you try a 50-yarder in Pittsburgh in December, it's almost impossible. When you try a 50-yarder in a dome anytime, it's…

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We can choose to study anything. We can choose to pay attention to anything, focus on anything. We might as well focus…

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You see it with soccer players, you see it with CEOs - people with positions of power - they retire and they're…

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I was born in the kingdom of Denmark, the birthplace of famous Danish fairytale writer, Hans Christian Andersen. His magical stories have…

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When people ask me how I lasted so long, I tell them it was determination. I never stopped working hard, because I…

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The challenge, every year, when March came around and the new offseason started, was to plug yourself into the routine and understand…

— Morten Andersen

Waiting to try a crucial kick sets something off inside of me. I'll tell myself. My mother doesn't care about this field…

— Morten Andersen

Change is sometimes very healthy for a player. My separation from the Saints to the Falcons was very quick and abrupt and…

— Morten Andersen

High achievers sometimes are not the nicest people.

— Morten Andersen

Football never defined me and it never will.

— Morten Andersen

I was a gymnast and I was a handball player.

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I've had this burning desire to be in the big game.

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I don't make goals that are ridiculous.

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American football was not on the radar at all for me.

— Morten Andersen

In Denmark it's dark half the time so we don't age as fast.

— Morten Andersen