Football Quotes
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If chronic bashing of the head could destroy a boxer's brain, couldn't it also destroy a football player's brain? Surely someone in the history of football had thought to look for dementia pugilistica. Unlike boxers, football players wear helmets, but a helmet can't fully protect the head from damaging impact.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
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College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.
Forest Whitaker
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Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.
Kevin Keegan
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We spend our spare time taking care of little things. I can watch a little bit of college and professional football if I want to... Our favorite pastime is trying to take pictures of our hometowns from space.
Kevin A. Ford
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My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.
Ed Helms
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If it wasn't for football, a lot of the best times of my life, my brother's life, my dad's life, wouldn't exist.
Jon Gruden
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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
Fran Lebowitz
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The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side.
John Elway
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A lot of guys thought I'd bow down to them, but I wasn't like that. I was just trying to play football and do my thing.
Eric Weddle
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At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
Vince Lombardi
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I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.
Brian O'Driscoll
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A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.
Patrick Kavanagh
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It seems like we have a rivalry every week. CU hates us. BYU hates us. Air Force doesn't care for us and Wyoming really hates us. Every week, we're playing for some sort of trophy or plaque. That's what is unique about college football.
Dave Anderson
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I wasn't concerned with the money stuff; I only wanted to play football.
Drew Busby
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I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.
Matthew Fox
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There's nothing more pathetic than listening to a football game over the Internet, but I've done that.
Matt Besser
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There seems to be this thing in football where everything has to be... now!
Gareth Bale
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In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.
Frank Lampard
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There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.
Jane Leavy
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What I do is play football. What I do doesn't change who I am and who God sees me as.
Benjamin Watson
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We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we're the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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It ticks me off to hear people say, 'Hey man, at your age you don't look like you're slowing down a bit.' Like, can I just be a football player? Why does the 33 age have to coincide with me when you talking football?
DeAngelo Williams
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Vince Lombardi
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It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.
Jimmy Connors