Football Quotes

• We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought.

  

  Amit Bhatia
  • Great
  • Business
  • Passion

• Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • World
  • God
  • Important

• Economists have the same occupational hazard as baseball managers and football coaches: Every person on the street knows their job better than they do.

  

  Kevin Hassett
  • Job
  • Football
  • Baseball

• I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.

  

  Mary-Kate Olsen
  • Football

• They are a very good football team over there. They are No. 1 in many categories and we were trying everything we could.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Team

• It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.

  

  Craig Brown
  • Friends
  • Football
  • Lonely

• I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Football
  • Player
  • Basketball

• To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • College
  • Wife
  • Sick

• Success in football is relative. If you take a job at a school that finished with a 1-9 record the year before, you're considered a good coach if you finish 5-5 in your first season. But what happens if you start with 8-2 or 9-1?

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Good
  • School
  • Job

• And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

  

  Don Shula
  • Game
  • Football

• Folks who blithely disregard the benefits of football likely haven't played or are being intellectually dishonest. The game, perhaps more than any other, requires absolute dedication and teamwork. Yes, I ultimately quit, and if I ever have a son, he won't play, but I'll always cherish the lessons I learned from football.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Game
  • Son
  • Dedication

• Being faster would probably make me better at football.

  

  Frank Lampard
  • Football

• 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.

  

  Chris Borland
  • War
  • Brain
  • Unique

• Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

  

  Frank Gifford
  • Football

• Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Heart
  • Football
  • Big Heart

• When you think about little league football, high school, and even on to college even more so, you're dealing with a lot of guys that are prideful, that think they're the best - a lot of alpha males. So, typically, you've got to have a guy that can control those guys, and, when he talks, they know he means business. He's a serious guy.

  

  Adrian Peterson
  • School
  • Business
  • High

• I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Done
  • Kids
  • House

• When I was playing football I never enjoyed it that much, I was never happy. If I scored two goals, I wanted a third, I always wanted more. Now it's all over I can look back with satisfaction, but I never felt that way when I was playing.

  

  Gabriel Batistuta
  • Happy
  • Goal
  • Goals

• And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible.

  

  Jonah Goldberg
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Running

• In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.

  

  Ludivine Sagnier
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Bad

• Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

  

  Bob Lilly
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

  

  Joe Greene
  • Up
  • Team
  • Pain

• A five-pound boneless rolled-and-tied breast of veal, like any other piece of meat fit for braising, can come in many shapes and sizes. So recipe times aren't uniformly applicable. A long and thin tied roast will cook more quickly than its stouter, football-shaped cousin.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Long
  • Football
  • Cousin

• I played college basketball. When I first decided I was going to play football, there were a lot of people telling me that I wasn't going to make it.

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • People
  • College
  • Basketball

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