Words matter. These are the best Blitz Quotes from famous people such as Blake Griffin, Rich Eisen, Steven Berkoff, A. S. Byatt, Ed Davey, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
One of my favorite games of all time was on Nintendo 64 – ‘NFL Blitz.’ I don’t know why, I just loved that game – being able to hit people after the play and stuff was always fun.
I don’t want to find out what celebrity X, who is a Browns fan, thinks of the zone blitz scheme. I don’t think that’s the sort of thing that I would even ask many people when they come on the show; it’s very obtuse, even if they are an expert on football.
During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point during the blitz, the air-raid sirens went off every night for 30 nights, and each time, my parents would grab my sister and me and take us to the shelter beneath Whitechapel underground station.
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
Brexiteers often hark back to the blitz. Maybe they think the ‘Britain standing alone’ motif adds much-needed heroic purpose to a Brexit future in which Britain stands without trading partners or allies to tackle climate change.
England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.
You have different schemes for different teams. Some teams blitz a lot, and some teams drop eight in coverage.
I can just remember the blitz of Manchester, or perhaps my father’s tales about the blitz of Manchester. I can remember the blackout, the powdered eggs, and the gas masks. But I think no British person should pretend that being resident in England could count as being in the thick of the action.
I want to be active. I want to be able to show everything I can do. I can blitz. I can cover. I can play zone and play man. I can do it all.
I grew up in London, a city devastated by the bombing. I am, you might say, a Blitz Baby.
Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of London during the Blitz and you were trying to eke out a living as a hairdresser.
My father was a journalist. He used to write for ‘Blitz’ tabloid.
For all the farcical invoking of Blitz spirit, Brexit isn’t merely an absurdist experiment in English nationalist nostalgia – it is the most audacious example yet of a futuristic Russian nationalism that seeks to divide and rule Europe.
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
London survived the Great Fire 350 years ago. We were not beaten by the Blitz or the horrors of 7/7. History has shown us how strong London is.
Did I ever think at the time, when I was with the Alouettes and the Chicago Blitz, that I would be head-coaching a team in the Super Bowl? It would be hard to believe. Is it a dream come true? Yes.
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.
It doesn’t make much sense to blitz a guy that gets rid of the ball in less than 1.5 seconds.
London is a city of ghosts; you feel them here. Not just of people, but eras. The ghost of empire, or the blitz, the plague, the smoky ghost of the Great Fire that gave us Christopher Wren’s churches and ushered in the Georgian city.
For the moment, I am more focused on classical chess rather than rapid and blitz, as I am hoping to make my move in the classical World championship cycle.
Spandau wasn’t just about the music; it was about the fashion that went with it too. We were part of the New Romantic movement that happened around the Blitz nightclub in London, and we thought the best way to sell the band to America was to take the whole package to New York.
When I talk football with my friends, I don’t talk about Tom Brady’s hair. I talk about how he handles the blitz, or how he runs his offense. I talk as a fan. I don’t want pink jerseys, and I don’t want dumbed-down content. I want to be treated as a real fan – because I am proud to be one.
It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it’s like a media blitz.
No true fan wants to go to Comic-Con and get assaulted with a marketing blitz about just any old show.
When you can recognize hot throws and blitzes, that’s when they can slow down their blitz and they don’t want to blitz you as much because you’re getting the ball out.
