Football Quotes
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In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.
Luis Figo
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I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.
Chuck Pagano
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If football is your passion in life and you would rather play football for 20 years and have a shortened life span, that's your choice.
Ann McKee
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I'm very close in age to my older brother, and we had a field at the end of the road where we could run around, climb trees, play football.
James Bay
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The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and lie still, And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them: A wet leaf that clings to the threshold.
Ezra Pound
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Al Toon, who had his football career cut short because of multiple concussions, hopes his son follows in his footsteps.
Dave Pasch
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It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.
Lin Dan
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Football helped me build confidence on and off the field and taught me to grow through moments of success and disappointment.
Ali Krieger
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I'm sure there were concussions galore back when we played, but the doctors would just say, 'Shake it off,' or something like that... or 'Come on, you got to be tough... get back in there.' I see so many guys who played pro football in their 50s now who are so debilitated from having played it.
Marv Levy
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I'm very about football and very about my job, which doesn't get reported or won't get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That's I think what everybody else does, and that's what I should do.
Johnny Manziel
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I played basketball my whole life. It definitely helps. It translates to going up for rebounds and going up for balls in the end zone. Quick feet. It helps with getting in and out of your cuts. It definitely all translates to football.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins
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Does each of us need to suffer agony to understand how brutal our gridiron entertainment is? Surely, seeing is believing enough. So, what is football doing to us as a people? How do we explain an America that alone in the world so loves this savage sport?
Frank Deford
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I have played football all my life, and my dad went to see Manchester United in 2005. Since then, I have been a fan.
Chad le Clos
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A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.
John O. Brennan
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Young kids should probably not play tackle football. I know this intellectually, but emotionally, I'm conflicted. I love this sport. I grew up playing and adoring football. I love the brotherhood, teamwork, athletic grace that borders on superhuman, grit, pressure and, yes, contact. I love the contact.
Peter Berg
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I got into theatre kinda late by some standards, and I sorta fell into it. I had broken my ankle playing football, and my high school was doing a production of 'Barnum.' I could juggle, and my mom really wanted to get me out of the house. She said since I wasn't playing football and couldn't wrestle, maybe I should audition for the show.
Colin Donnell
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If you take golf, you have a teacher for the drive, a teacher for the approach play, and a teacher for the putt. That's three specialist coaches for one player. In football, one coach looks after 25 players.
Johan Cruyff
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I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.
Jason Gedrick
