Football Quotes
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My younger brother was a big Stoke fan, and I was sucked into it. I was kind of waking up every morning and looking at Gordon Banks' face! We had all these small football cards - literally hundreds of them - and swapping them was the currency back then.
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As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.
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Only two players made me cry when watching football, one was Diego Maradona and the other Ryan Giggs.
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I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.
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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
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I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.
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My opinion, football is the most dangerous sport there is. After that, I'll give it to probably boxing.
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It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.
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There's this myth that there's no loyalty in football. Well, there's tremendous loyalty and emotion and respect that go into the coaches and players you've gone into battle with. But as an owner, you have to make the decisions that are the right ones for the organization, that are the right ones that will help you win.
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When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a relaxing, normal life.
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I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.
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I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
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It's true that I'm even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!
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I want to get the maximum out of my career. Football is my life. And when my career is over, I want to look after my family to help my children. That is all.
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As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
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I have been around football all of my life.
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You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.
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I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
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Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that 60 minutes - pride, pain, dedication, satisfaction, fear.
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I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
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The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
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I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.
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The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.
