Tackling Technique Quotes

I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.

The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.

I don't want to be making tackles.

All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

Nice tackle, babe." Ranger

When I started playing the game I was just worried about making that next tackle. Especially as a rookie, you're figuring out what you're doing and where you're supposed to be going, what the defense is, and trying not to make mistake.

Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

I'd go to clinics and hear coaches say, 'You block with your helmet. You tackle with your helmet.' I'd say, 'No way! You block with your shoulder. It's a lot stronger blow, and you don't risk nearly as much. Why be stupid?'

Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.

Defending isn't just about tackling and heading, it's also about getting the ball down and playing - starting the attack from the back.

We've got guys who aren't wrapping guys up... No matter how hard you hit them, you've still got to wrap them up.

Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts.

The linebacker has to make multiple, multiple decisions on every play. Not only what his assignment is and what the play is, but all the way along the line, different angles, how to take on blocks, how to tackle, the leverage to play with, the angle to run to and so forth, the technique. So many different things happen in a split second during the course of the play, just like it is for a quarterback. The more of those things that you can do right, slow down, get the most important things, not get distracted by all the stuff that's happening, but just really zero in on a target.

Number one, from a tackling standpoint, we teach strike zone hits, and we want to hit absolutely as hard as we can in that strike zone, and that's absolutely what we call a batter in the batters box from the chest all the way down to the knees.

Nobody has ever had to go off following one of my tackles and nobody has broken their leg.

We must not dive into tackles but force the opponent to run so that maybe they will crack late in the game.

When I was playing college football, they would take the football team to a ballet school. We would learn to do tour jete's to prepare us when you are running in pursuit to tackle a ball carrier and you get hit, or somebody comes from another angle. This way you can spin away from the hit and your foot is out so you can go right into your run - basically, it pushed us toward the tackle. There's a good tweet: "Take ballet - it will push you towards the tackle."

I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.