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To be a great NFL player, you have to know what your opponent is doing, not just opposite your position but what they're doing…

— Michael Sam

Here's what I always tell people: It's a mentality that you have to have in the NFL. It isn't about if you have the…

— Tony Gonzalez

You have to deal with a lot of things when you are a professional football player, and that is not so easy.

— Louis van Gaal

That's the thing: To be successful in the NFL, you have to start by having a quality coach and a quarterback that can kind…

— Donovan McNabb

If you want to become a professional football player at any level, when you're growing up, you have to make sacrifices, and it's very…

— Chris Coleman

Every week in the NFL you have to improve, regardless of what year you are, and every week's a new week.

— Mac Jones

In football, you just have to develop yourself.

— Granit Xhaka

To go to the next level, you have to be special, and I look for those special qualities in those players, those qualities that…

— Ron Jaworski

A lot of what you get done in the NFL is by perception. They perceive you as really talented, and they worry about you.…

— Steve Young

One of the strong principles that I believe in is that you're always learning, whether you're a commissioner, a current general manager, a president…

— Roger Goodell

Life in the NFL is an adjustment.

— Sean McDermott

I think you have to every day as an NFL player. I think you have to go out there... and show that you earned…

— Davis Webb