Adam Vinatieri Quotes

Adam Vinatieri

Profession : Athlete

Birth : December 28, 1972

The only number I care about is the scoreboard.

Adam Vinatieri

I like my smart-aleck self.

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Indianapolis is home to me and my family.

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As a football player, as a kid and as a professional athlete the moment of playing in the Super Bowl and winning a Super Bowl, that's what you play your whole career for.

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Will it make the game safer for people by moving the extra point back to a 43-yarder? If anything, players are going to rush harder because they're thinking, 'That far of a field goal-type try, we have to go after blocking it more.'

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Ask a receiver, can we take his gloves off because he's catching the ball too well? Nobody is going to be overly happy about that.

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

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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.

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I think if I take care of my body it should continue to work the same way.

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Living in Indy, you have to be a race fan.

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To be able to play a couple of decades, I never thought I'd play that long.

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If anything, make a 50-yard field goal worth four points instead of three.

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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.

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I think every time you step on the field you have a certain amount of pressure on you to succeed.

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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.

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You see these people that work their whole life and when they stop working, they stop living. Not me.

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I mean, if I was going to leave New England, it wasn't going to be just for the sake of leaving.

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Obviously this all-time leading scorer thing I knew was out there and I thought, 'Man, if I stay healthy, I would like to reach that goal.'

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Making the playoffs is hard to come by, so if you can help contribute to your team's success it's always a successful time.

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I think there's always mental and physical aspects of football.

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