Football Quotes

• My favorite book is 'Million-Dollar Throw.' It's about football, which is one of the main things I like watching and reading about.

  

  Bradley Steven Perry
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Football

• To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • Game
  • Football
  • Boxing

• I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • Football
  • Lucky

• I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to be in jeans all the time, and I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to conform to a certain standard, so I didn't.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• It wasn't professional, but it was a few levels below the top level. I loved playing football, but my passion was always music. It didn't become a possibility to me until I started playing songs I thought were good. I think it happened during my third song. The dream to become a musician appeared in my heart, and that happened about 2010.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Good
  • Music
  • Heart

• Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades.

  

  Jimmy Johnson
  • Great
  • Team
  • Player

• The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Business
  • Best
  • Model

• Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • People
  • Game
  • Football

• Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Team
  • Football
  • Stronger

• Rebounding helps a lot with your ball skills, because you're able to go get the ball at a high point, which is what they want you to do in football.

  

  Calvin Pryor
  • Helping
  • Able
  • Skills

• I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state.

  

  Drew Brees
  • Up
  • Football
  • Texas

• I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • School
  • Football
  • Rugby

• Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

  

  Knute Rockne
  • Up
  • Game
  • Football

• Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher.

  

  Daniel J. Evans
  • Up
  • Football
  • Boy

• Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

  

  Pete Rozelle
  • Good
  • Football

• I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.

  

  Chaske Spencer
  • Remember
  • Dad
  • Shoes

• I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Work
  • Why
  • Know

• The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Art

• I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Football
  • Sports

• Football, at the end of the day, is a little kids' game that grown men get to play. I'm just privileged to get to do that every day.

  

  Jimmy Garoppolo
  • Men
  • Kids
  • Game

• We never had anybody who froze to death playing football. You probably had somebody who died from heat stroke playing football.

  

  Bud Grant
  • Death
  • Football

• It's almost un-American to say that you want to change football.

  

  Ann McKee
  • American
  • Football

• Football is important, but my family and faith are also important, and no matter how good a football player I am, I knew I still needed to be a good member of the church. Having that spiritual connection helped me throughout the season. It brought balance. I felt better about myself and saw improvements in all aspects of my life.

  

  Eric Weddle
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Learning
  • Wise
  • Trouble

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