Troy Aikman Quotes

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Troy Aikman

Profession : Athlete

Birth : November 21, 1966

Look, the only way for me to enjoy the game is to be consumed by it, to compete at a level where I know, at the end of that game, that my teammates and I did our absolute best.

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Football is a tough game. It's a tough game for tough people.

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If you do anything with the Cowboys, there's an interest in it. And there are people who constantly want to write books about our teams in the '90s. They want to interview me. I say, 'Look, I've done it a million times. I'm just not interested. What's left to tell?'

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I consider myself to be one of the really, really fortunate ones to have gotten out of the game as healthy as I did.

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You can't just can't simply replace head coaches and say, 'Now it's going to be better.'

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Working with someone who's got your best interest at heart can make all the difference.

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It's not important to me that everyone knows everything about me or that I reveal all that I am or have.

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I know what a championship locker room looks like, what a championship team requires.

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I've never gotten into anything that I didn't feel I'd be successful doing.

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The only way you're gonna eliminate helmet-to-helmet contact is to take the helmets off. Go back to leather helmets. I mean, I think a defensive player would be much less inclined to lead with his head if he had no protection.

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As the equipment has gotten better - and it's gotten better in an attempt to try to protect the player more - then the equipment becomes used more as a weapon.

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When you stand and talk about player safety, and then, at the same time, you want to extend the season two more games, there's a contradiction in there.

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When I work a Cowboys game, my social media will blow up with, 'Hey, don't forget who you played for,' or, 'You traitor.'

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I've said for many, many years, as long as I can ever remember, when I'm asked, 'Hey, what do you look for first in a quarterback?' The first thing I look for is accuracy, because the rest of it doesn't matter.

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To say, 'I don't worry about perception,' you better worry about perception because it's a big part of making it through some very difficult times.

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I'll never forget when I was 12 years old. I couldn't wait until the day I was 16 and could drive a car. I thought that'd be the end of life's problems. I mean, you can drive! What is there left? And then I turned 16 and realized there were still problems.

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I believe - and this is my opinion - that at some point, football is not going to be the No. 1 sport. You talk about the ebbs and flows of what's popular and what's not. At some point, the TV ratings are not going to be there.

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At one time, watching football was an event. Monday Night Football was a big event.

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What I am is a direct result of how I was raised.

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I don't understand why guys want to be controversial and in the press all the time. It's just not my nature.

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