Sack Quotations

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.

Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.

Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.

Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.

When George W. Bush hit the campaign trail in 2000, the precious possession he brought with him from home was his personal feather pillow. The theme of the Bush years was obliviousness. He was famously unavailable for debate and dialogue. He was deaf to countervailing voices. He hit the sack early and always got a good night's sleep.

We were playing a fair, and a few people were handing me stuffed animals and flowers, but one person handed me a paper sack. So I took all the stuff back to the bus. I put the sack in my lap and opened it, and a live iguana jumped out of the sack and onto my shirt. I screamed like a little girl!

Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters.

What we need is some pass rush production. Whether that's a pass rusher or some exotic new schemes, which probably we're not going to have those. So we're going to try to get us a pass-rush rusher to help us improve our sack production.

We're a bunch of old guys, so for us to come together in a short time from a chemistry standpoint and get that sack record is a huge deal.

My impression is that he's very accurate. I think he's going to be a guy that can really roam with the football. He's going to make plays with his feet. I think he has a sense of what the pocket is. He'll slide. He's going to be hard to sack because he's so big. We've seen a lot out of him. Now he needs to play.

One sack doesn't scare me. The sacks will come.

If they take the decision to sack La Volpe, I will pull out of the World Cup,

I don't have a big part in our offense. I didn't allow a sack and that's all I care about. I'm not a primary weapon catching the ball and I don't worry about receiving yards or touchdowns. I worry about wins and losses.

I don't know why they're giving up the sacks, or what the mood is that the guys are going through, ... But hopefully they'll give up 20 this weekend to us because I need my first sack of the season. That's what I'm looking for.

I am getting messages saying we should sack Harry. I understand the frustrations but everyone needs to get behind him.

Basically, his intestines have developed outside of his body, right next to his belly button and what they do is try to put a sack over the intestines and then slowly put them back into his body. They can't do that all at once because it would be too much weight for him.

With me, coming form the Bengals and offensive lineman, I was automatically compared to Anthony Munoz, ... Any pass rusher, I don't care what team, has the expectation of being the next Bruce Smith, or Coy Bacon here in Cincinnati. People expect high sack totals, but Justin's game is much more than that.

To get a Super Bowl ring and L.T.'s sack record. That's what I want,

He was just taking three steps drops, ... and it's tough to sack the quarterback.

He'd beat the offensive lineman, knock the running back down, sack the quarterback and then help all three of them up.

I was just thankful for the opportunity that the sack by Greg created. I knew once I picked up the ball, I was going to score and that's the mentality you need to have. I am just thankful for the chance to score my first career touchdown.

Our defense was incredible, ... I'll take the sack and let them get the ball back for us.

I worked at a place that followed a system where the quarterback was taught to take the sack rather than force the throw. That's kind of an old-school theory, but it has existed in this game.

Just imagine if they held the ball for a second or two seconds more. There would be a sack fest.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

That was big. That last sack (by Cooks) and not getting at least a field goal. It was a great opportunity, we just didn't get it done.

You don't expect to have your name called. Usually when your name is called, it's not really any good -- allowing a sack or missing an assignment, or something like that,

We were able to get the first sack of the year on (Manning). That was one of the plays we did well, but we needed more of that.

We needed to stop the clock and regroup ourselves. That sack was pretty bad.

We needed to get pressure on the quarterback, and his sack was a big play. We need him to be more consistent and continue to play like he was at the end.

The protection has been good. If we can continue the way we've been doing and I'm positive we will then it's going to be a much better season as far as sack numbers.

We go in and had the same situation because of our turnover (Brown had fumbled on the preceding possession), and make a sack and get a turnover. It doesn't get any bigger than that.

You have to physically execute and pick up the blitz. They didn't sack Michigan State 12 times just with their line rush.

At the beginning of the Arkansas State game, the quarterback was calling me a skinny defensive end, and when I finally got a sack he looked kind of surprised that it was me.

At the start of the season, the press and fans were saying the manager should get the sack but the way he has turned things around has been fantastic.

These are some of the best people in the country. They do things that they don't get credit for. People would call me a hero because I go out there and sack a quarterback while playing a game, but Monday through Friday, these guys are down here working ... and as far as I'm concerned, they don't get anywhere near enough credit.

The streak is fine, but it doesn't mean anything if we don't win, ... We have a big challenge in front of us. They've got (Dwight) Freeney. They've got (Corey) Simon. They're probably the biggest sack team in the league right now. We started thinking about that game as soon as we got on the plane on the way home from Green Bay.

I wanted something simple. Over the course of a weekend, I turned out a hip sack that became a precursor to the stuff we're building now.

Orlando came up with a big sack and had been consistent all night in making plays. Of course Micah played pretty well on defense and had some big runs. He capped it with the last run of the game and that was important.

Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.

Some publishers liked to have six pieces in a sack because they thought the smaller sacks would be opened faster and thus delivered earlier. Theoretically that's true.

As long as we are producing or winning games, that's all I care about. But I do want to get a 10-tackle game sometime soon, and, of course, get on the sack board.

A lot of people put stock in the sack column, but if you hit a quarterback and it gets picked off, that's a lot better than a sack. You can't put all your stock in that category.

They had stuff to say at the bottom of the pile. I don't think it was anything personal, it was just football. The first sack the guy comes up to me and says he's going to be in my face all day. They were just playing mind games.

You don't sack someone and inform the king. Sacking is in the hands of the king on advice of course from the prime minister.

There's another big sack out there. Twenty-five pound sacks are not uncommon any time of year down here ? so it's wide open for about six or seven guys, I think.

It seems that they deliberately kept the delays going . . . for part of their PR (public relations) battle and then they come out and sack 49 pilots unfairly.

It's a similar thing with David Brent. David Brent is not that good at his job because he couldn't stand for one person in the world not to like him. Andy can't sack his agent, because he can't bear putting anyone else in pain. The real thing holding him back is, he's burdened with conscience. I mean, he's like any of us really. ... It just eats you up if you think you've hurt anyone's feelings.

It once again smacks of it being far easier and cheaper to sack British workers. We are not prepared to be treated unfairly or disproportionately with other workers across Europe.

Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.

That's ridiculous. I think we should still go to bat and fight for that one because it looked like a sack to me.

The Alberta government is not Santa Claus and we're not talking about a sack of toys,

A sack and a good rush -- that's the best coverage you can have. When the guys are up there working hard, getting it done, it makes our lives a lot easier on the back.

At the end of the year, I'm telling everybody that's the greatest rush ever made, ... It was a sack anyway, it just helped me that he laid down.

In football, you build with a quarterback, someone who is going to sack the quarterback and someone who is going to protect the quarterback.

In defense of the tackles, which I haven't done maybe all this year, last week there was only the one sack where the guy came around the edge,

If I wore a big, black sack it'd be boring.'

I fully expected to have a sack full of big ones. My goal was to have a minimum of 20 pounds.

I live in Brooklyn, and I love all the hipsters and all the artisanal bacon you can get here now. I consider New York my home, and L.A. a place that I go. I always say I go with an empty sack and try to fill it with as much money as possible to bring back to New York.

I know I can, ... But you'll have to ask my offensive line whether they are up to the task or not. It's hard to lead a team to the playoffs when I'm dusting myself off from a sack about four times a game.

I hit 'em anyway, ... I don't try to be intimidating, but it happens. I love to make pancake blocks on offense. It's the same thing as making a quarterback sack on defense.

I guess on that sack he got hit in the head pretty good. We couldn't figure out why he was having such a hard time getting plays in. ... Right after that sack, he was hearing it, but he wasn't sorting it out. I didn't know what was going on. I thought we had a communication problem.

I just knew I had the sack in the bag, but he threw it, ... I didn't even see him throw it. I had my eyes closed. I was like, 'I'm about to drill him.'

He's an amazing athlete. It's always exciting to get a sack on him. It's really rewarding, and it takes a load off your shoulders.

Heaven forbid if you have to buy a box of laundry detergent or a sack of potatoes. That's a trip right there.

The focus should be on us trying to get a victory. We're trying to get to 1-2. We let two games slip. I don't care who's back there, if I get an opportunity to sack the quarterback, I'm going to sack the quarterback.

The hardest thing about getting to Brady is his quick release. We wanted to pressure him, but you can't sack the quarterback when he doesn't have the ball. He did a good job of getting rid of it.

You want to talk about a guy who turned his day around in a heartbeat. That was huge. Dylan's sack was enormous.

The game experience of the front seven gives us optimistic views that we will be able to continue our sack accumulation records.

The chairman wants to sack me, but I said I will never walk away from Kettering Town and I will fight all the way. I am now looking to buy the football club.