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. – Lawrence Taylor
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. – Lawrence Taylor
I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life. – Lawrence Taylor
And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price. – Lawrence Taylor
But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I’ve done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen. – Lawrence Taylor
You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that’s not banned, and this over here that’s not banned, but if you mix them together, you’ve got a banned substance in your system. – Lawrence Taylor
Most of the games don’t let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I’ve been watching these girls. – Lawrence Taylor
The NFL, and I’ve played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything. – Lawrence Taylor
Hopefully the new breed of kids won’t have to go through that hard lesson – my kids, my grandkids, my fans’ kids, hopefully they won’t have to go through it. – Lawrence Taylor
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. – Lawrence Taylor
And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it’s an easy jump for me, because I understand what it’s all about. – Lawrence Taylor
