Michael Wilbon Quotes

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

Michael Wilbon

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• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Me
  • Football
  • Old

• Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Up
  • Football

• I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Hate
  • Football
  • New York

• There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Death
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • World
  • Nice
  • Football

• Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Football
  • Fighting
  • Start

• I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Football
  • Hockey
  • Clear

• We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, those limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Waves

• I still try to treat football as a game even if there are now other considerations at stake, especially economic ones.

  

  Dimitri Payet
  • Game
  • Football

• Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Reading
  • Eyes
  • Football

• The idea of somebody suffering is really painful to every human. In our collective language, we all too often see those who are suffering as a victim to be pitied, to be feared, and even sometimes to be despised. I want to redirect that narrative.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Suffering

• If I continue to work as a coach, it is because my passion and love for football, for the players, is still there.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Football

• I always wanted to become a good role model for kids as a professional football player. Unfortunately, I didn't attain that through football, but I was smart enough to realize that professional wrestling provided another opportunity for that.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Opportunity

• At some point, we're going to have to get to the point where, before you play football, I'm going to test you at some stage in your life to determine if you're susceptible to concussions. We need a test that shows us that your brain is situated a certain way that puts you at risk. If you are susceptible, don't play football.

  

  Bud Grant
  • Life
  • Football
  • Brain

• The scary thing is that players have a one-upsmanship about money; they sign a contract and they like it until someone signs a bigger one and now they don't like it. I don't like that. I don't begrudge anyone money, but it disrupts the football team.

  

  Joe Greene
  • Money
  • Team
  • Football

• I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before.

  

  Christopher Atkins
  • Movie
  • Coaching

• There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play basketball and football, while all I wanted to do was put on musicals. Mentally, I was always in my own world.

  

  Ben Platt
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.

  

  Alcee Hastings
  • World
  • Believe
  • Real

• [Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your hand, ready for him. For you are a leader-don't you know it? I don't, surely, need to tell you?-And that is what leadership means. It means fortifying the fainthearted and giving them the two sides of your tongue while you are at it. It means suffering weak love and schooling it till it matures. It means giving up you privicies, your follies and your leasure. It means you can love nothing and no one too much, or you are no longer a leader, you are led.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Up
  • Love
  • True

• My wife is such a bad cook, if we leave dental floss in the kitchen the roaches hang themselves.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Bad
  • Wife
  • Kitchen

• If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • You
  • Say
  • Prince

• Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.

  

  Sigrid Nunez
  • Inspiration
  • Write
  • Read

• Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

  

  Michael Wilbon
  • Football
  • Suffering
  • Coaching