Collision Low Crossers Quotes

“When you work all the time, the other aspects of your identity recede until they seem to have disappeared.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football

“Ryan was not only gregarious but also a happily married inamorato! (Around the facility, when the other coaches teased him about this episode, Ryan would retort affably, “I’m the only guy in history who gets in a sex scandal with his wife!”)”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football

“It was the gravity of the place. In football the facility was designed to be difficult to leave. Everything was there for you. A barber came in regularly. So did a dry cleaner and a car washer. Three meals a day were served. And best of all, there was the built-in coterie of brothers and fathers and uncles and a mutual sense of binding purpose.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football

“But how a game plan came to be, what a finished plan looked like, I had no idea. I’d heard that all copies were shredded as soon as the game was over.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football