108 Quotes by Marv Levy

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    In Buffalo, you can't imagine how much people revere Fred Jackson because of his high character, his community involvement, coming from a Division III school.

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    I don't know exactly what are you supposed to do when you retire. Lie on the couch and do nothing? I didn't want to do that.

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    I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.

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    If you start thinking of the Super Bowl championship as your motivation, you are going to miss the trees for the forest or the forest for the trees. I never could understand that one.

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    When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

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    I don't know if there ever has been anyone in the NFL who plays his position as well as Steve Tasker.

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    I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.

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    I am going to miss Don Shula. I like him, and I admire him. I'm going to miss looking those 53 yards across the field and thinking, 'There is a coaching legend.'

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    I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.

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