Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Julius Taylor, nicknamed "L.T.", is a Hall of Fame former American football player. Taylor played his entire professional career as a linebacker for the New York Giantsin the National Football League. He is one of the greatest players in the history of football, and has been ranked as the greatest defensive player in league history by former players, coaches, media members, and news outlets such as the NFL Network, and Sporting News...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth4 February 1959
CityWillamsburg, VA
CountryUnited States of America
When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.
People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.
I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in the zone.
Football is not part of that lifestyle anymore.
There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.
In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.
All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was.
Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.
Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'
It doesn't happen every game, doesn't happen every play, there were probably five games in my career where I was totally in the zone.
He's a damned good player. He's one of those guys who makes you go turn the TV on just to watch him.
He's a cocky sumbitch. That's what makes him such a great player.
then go to South Beach, get totally trashed and chase some 13-year-old down the street.
I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.