Joe Thomas Quotes

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

As a running back, it takes five offensive linemen, a tight end, a fullback and possibly two wide receivers, in order to make my job successful.

You can't put a running back in there and have him not know who to pick up. You can't get your quarterback hit.

I was mainly a blocker in college. I mainly lined up in the backfield at fullback.

You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.

Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.

I think I am a good running back, but I'm really not that fast. There is only one thing I can do, that is throw a cross-body block. Picture perfect. I love it. Not that good at pass blocking.

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

At the highest level in the NFL, the pass game is as complex as you can imagine.

Any time you get a new running back, whether it's a rookie or hasn't played a lot, that's the first thing you test, is their pass protection. That's big.

I think I'd be a good pass-catching fullback.

It's very tough to run my side of the line. Eight out of 10 plays, they don't get anything.

I have no problem lining up running back, tight end, or fullback.

There are a lot of good tight ends.

I want to go play behind that great offensive line they have down in Dallas.

Getting to the halfbacks is a big part of any game.

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

My favorite book is 'Million-Dollar Throw.' It's about football, which is one of the main things I like watching and reading about.

I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.

I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.

Running back was always my favorite position.

Even though you wouldn't want to line a D-lineman and running back up across from each other to block, when you get help initially from the guard, and then the defensive tackle gets picked up by the running back, it's not as bad as a lot of people would think versus if you're just putting that matchup on paper.