Football Quotes
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When people watch football, they're looking for fun things.
John Madden
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If I can't outplay you in football, I'm gonna fight ya.
Brock Lesnar
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
Vince Lombardi
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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
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When I was a kid in Woking, every week you went to the football dance, and every week the top kids would be wearing something different. You were constantly trying to catch up with them - which you could never do because, by the time you'd saved up enough to buy the item, they'd moved on to something else. That's the whole Mod thing, I suppose.
Paul Weller Incognito
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I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.
Bill Simmons
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I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.
Danny Boyle
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Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
Keith Jackson
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When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football.
Andriy Shevchenko
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I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.
Jerry Rice
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It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.
Sam Hunt
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We never had anybody who froze to death playing football. You probably had somebody who died from heat stroke playing football.
Bud Grant
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My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.
Donnie Yen
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I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
Gabriel Luna
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For me, football is just a game, not a drama.
Michel Platini
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I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box.
Kris Kristofferson
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Vince Lombardi
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I went off to Harvard Law School for six weeks, and then I said, 'Doggone this, it's not what I want to do.' I remember when I told my dad I was leaving law school, and I wanted to go into football. He said, 'Be a good coach.'
Marv Levy
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You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
Darrell Royal
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Football is more important to me than money right now.
Aaron James "A. J." Hawk
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
Verne Troyer
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I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.
David Beckham