National Football League (NFL)

"A sack is when you run up behind somebody who's not watching, he doesn't see you, and you really put your helmet into him. The ball goes fluttering everywhere and the coach comes out and asks the quarterback, 'Are you all right?' That's a sack."

"I don't like to just wrap the quarterback. I really try to make him see seven fingers when they hold up three. I'll drive my helmet into him, or, if I can, I'll bring my arm up over my head and try to axe the sonuva----h in two. So long as the guy is holding the ball, I intend to hurt him....If I hit the guy right, I'll hit a nerve and he'll feel electrocuted for a few seconds that he's on the football field."

"It wasn't really called the blind side when I came into the league. It was called the right side. It became the blind side after I started knocking people's heads off."

"They come to the line of scrimmage and the first thing they do is start looking for me. I know, and they know. When they'd find me they'd start screaming 56 left! 56 left (Taylor's number was 56). So there's this thing I did. After the play was over I'd come up behind them and whisper: don't worry where I am. I'll tell you when I get there."

"When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn."

"I've see quarterbacks look at Lawrence and forget the snap count." - Beasley Reece

"That's why I loved him so much. He responded to anything that threatened his status." - Bill Parcells

"The big reason I put him over there is the right side is the quarterback's blind side, since most quarterbacks are right-handed. And no one wants to get his ass knocked off from the back side." - Bill Parcells

"When I dropped back, the first thing I still did was to glance over my shoulder to see if he (Taylor) was coming. If he was dropping back in coverage, a sense of calm came over me. If he was coming, I had a sense of urgency." - Joe Theismann