Backs Quote by Matthew Stafford

All the RPOs and the options that teams are running. They're always trying to match up their fastest guys up on the linebackers.

— Leighton Vander Esch

I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

— Bill Parcells

I feel like as a linebacker or a D-lineman, any cut, it's a man sport -- be a man, hit me up high, Hit…

— Patrick Willis

I think a good quarterback or a good linebacker, a good safety, even though you have a lot of bodies moving out there, it…

— Bill Belichick

The reality is that it's just the nature of the game. It's the nature of playing offensive line, defensive line, and linebackers, where your…

— Chris Borland

I want to be one of the best linebackers, if not the best linebacker, in the National Football League.

— Leighton Vander Esch

I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.

— Wynton Marsalis

Linebacker is a lot more detail oriented and you have to know a lot more than a defensive end necessarily would on any given…

— Justin Cole

I mean, just the safety position, linebackers, you have to be able to communicate. You can't do sign language out there. You have to…

— Patrick Chung

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…

— Walter Payton

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life…

— Hunter S. Thompson

We felt responsible for each other. The D-line's got to take care of that line of scrimmage, (the linebackers) have got to clean up,…

— Kawika Mitchell