Football Quotes
-
Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him.
-
College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
-
The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.
-
They want to take the most cautious route possible. There is still a lot of football to be played. As a competitor, I feel I can go now, but it's not up to me. It's up to the healing. Once the possibility of something happening diminishes, that's when they'll let me play.
-
Trust in the great American ingenuity. We can derive more intelligent, more brain-friendly ways we can play football.
-
I've grown up watching football my whole life.
-
I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.
-
It would be ill-advised to compare war and a sport, but I don't think the brain knows the difference. With post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries in blasts with veterans, we see a very similar and somewhat unique issue with repetitive brain injuries in football.
-
A couple of times, when we needed a big stop, we didn't get it. We gotta be able to make a play when it presents itself. You have to make it in arena football. That was basically the tale of the tape.
-
In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.
-
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
-
I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.
-
I would say I had anger-management issues, to be honest with you. But it was only on the football field.
-
The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
-
A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.
-
I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'
-
Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.
-
Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.
-
Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.
-
It is wonderful... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special.
-
The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
-
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
-
American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.
-
I say college football began with Rockne.
