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Top 15 Merlin Olsen Quotes (2025 Update)

Merlin Olsen Quote: “We need to know where we are going and how we plan to get there. Our dreams and aspirations must be translated into real and tangible goals with priorities and time frames.”

1. “We need to know where we are going and how we plan to get there. Our dreams and aspirations must be translated into real and tangible goals with priorities and time frames.”

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Merlin Olsen Quote: “You can take the best team and the worst team and line them up and you would find very little physical difference. You would find an emotional difference. The wining team has a dedication. It will have a core group of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.”

2. “You can take the best team and the worst team and line them up and you would find very little physical difference. You would find an emotional difference. The wining team has a dedication. It will have a core group of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.”

— Merlin Olsen

Merlin Olsen Quote: “Perseverance isn’t just the willingness to work hard. It’s that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.”

3. “Perseverance isn’t just the willingness to work hard. It’s that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.”

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Merlin Olsen Quote: “One of life’s most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn’t do our homework, that we are not prepared.”

4. “One of life’s most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn’t do our homework, that we are not prepared.”

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Merlin Olsen Quote: “Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.”

5. “Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.”

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Merlin Olsen Quote: “I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.”

6. “I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.”

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Merlin Olsen Quote: “I just wanted to be an athlete.”

7. “I just wanted to be an athlete.”

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Merlin Olsen Quote: “It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn’t football.”

8. “It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn’t football.”

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Merlin Olsen Quote: “Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.”

9. “Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.”

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Merlin Olsen Quote: “I’ve caught fish as big as I am. I’ve caught marlin close to 300 pounds.”

10. “I’ve caught fish as big as I am. I’ve caught marlin close to 300 pounds.”

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Merlin Olsen Quote: “I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.”

11. “I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.”

— Merlin Olsen

Merlin Olsen Quote: “I can ski out of my back door.”

12. “I can ski out of my back door.”

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Merlin Olsen Quote: “I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have.”

13. “I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have.”

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Merlin Olsen Quote: “I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.”

14. “I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.”

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Merlin Olsen Quote: “The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn’t have a flip turn.”

15. “The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn’t have a flip turn.”

— Merlin Olsen

Merlin Olsen Quote: “After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.”

16. “After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.”

— Merlin Olsen

Merlin Olsen Quote: “You are the land. The land is you.”

17. “You are the land. The land is you.”

— Merlin Olsen

Merlin Olsen Quote: “Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.”

18. “Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.”

— Merlin Olsen

Merlin Olsen Quote: “Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant’s book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.”

19. “Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant’s book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.”

— Merlin Olsen

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