Nate Kaeding
Nate Kaeding
Nathaniel James Kaedingis an American former college and professional football player who was a placekicker in the National Football Leaguefor nine seasons. He played the majority of his career with the NFL's San Diego Chargers. Kaeding retired after the 2012 season as the second most accurate field goal kicker in NFL history, having made 86.2 percent of his career attempts...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth26 March 1982
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I look back at my days at Iowa, and we walked out on the football field with those guys, and we had no doubt we were going to win. It didn't matter what anyone was saying or doing. We walked out there knowing what we had was good enough to win. That's a great feeling.
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I've kicked hundreds of balls in the rain before, there's no excuse for it.
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There's only one thing worse than being a rookie; that's being a rookie kicker.
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It's tough enough to wait six days for another chance. I had to wait eight months.
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A couple guys on the team joked about it, and coach maybe came up to me and joked about it, ... It really wasn't too much of a focal point on the team, but it was a laughable matter to me. It just played right into the way we were approaching the game -- 'We're nobodies, we're just these small-town guys from Iowa.'