Football Quotes
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I've always negotiated the world very physically, from football to tussling at the playground to taking my clothes off.
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That Monday after we lost to Washington, that's when everything hit the fan. But instead of succumbing to the environment at that particular time, it was more or less, 'What are we going to do to make this thing turn around?' We decided we had a lot more football to play, and what a story it would be if we turned it around and made the playoffs. And we did just that.
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I don't take a day off. I don't slack. All I know is hard-nose football. There ain't no breaks or vacations for me.
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Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
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In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated
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In high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop.
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Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
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Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly.
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As the youngest of six kids, I grew up spending summers on Martha's Vineyard, and I was always topless. All the pictures are of me in jean shorts, no shirt - with my brothers, playing football.
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I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.
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For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.
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It's impossible for me to dissociate the risk of playing football from the risk of C.T.E.
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While I'm more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance.
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I just came to West Ham to play football, the rest is not for me to say.
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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
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When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability.
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Everybody who knows anything about me knows all I ever wanted to do is play pro football. But I didn't have the talent, and I got hurt a lot. I'd do anything to be out on the field.
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You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.
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At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else's rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.
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Gradually, football has seen its appeal slip at the most basic levels. Pediatricians are advising parents not to let young children play organized football too early in life.
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Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
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Football is an extraordinarily popular sport, and the whole game is played around this issue. The whole makeup of the game involves these subconcussive hits. I don't know how they're going to solve that problem. I don't think they know how they're going to solve that problem.
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I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
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We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
