Football Quotes
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Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
Elvin Bishop
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Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.
William C. Rhoden
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I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.
George Smoot
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I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.
Michael East
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A Redskin is a football player.
Daniel Snyder
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I don't follow football, but I always watch the Superbowl.
Melissa Fumero
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I do have one instruction for you, General. Do something about that damned football team.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann
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I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in the offseason, I started playing basketball, and I just fell in love with the game. I've been playing basketball ever since 5th grade.
Chauncey Billups
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I think, when you reach the top level, it is less about the money itself; it is important only because the level of earning shows the importance of the player or the manager. I don't think people want to have the money just to spend it. It is a reflection of your importance in football.
Antonio Conte
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I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.
LeBron James
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I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
Art Donovan
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Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.
Arnold J. Mandell
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Head and neck injuries are what parents thinking about letting their children play tackle football should be thinking about, talking about, and demanding answers about, from any coach presenting himself as a worthy custodian for their child's introduction to tackle football.
Peter Berg
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In Oklahoma, the girls like the big football players. Girls were more interested in those guys, and I was, like, kind of a drama kid.
James Marsden
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In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.
John Madden
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You have to be on the pitch to play football.
Gerry Francis
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I lust love to play football.
Ray Nitschke
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NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.
O. J. Simpson
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I think success is the biggest challenge you have to handle in the National Football League; that's something we talk about a lot.
Mike McCarthy
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China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the game is concerned. Football in the future will get faster and faster.
Berti Vogts
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In college football brad, you know, when you make a first down, first downs that you have possession of aren't really that important because if you make a first down it stops the clock.
Bob Griese
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I have kids. I can't hardly watch an afternoon football game with them without having to turn off the TV during the commercials. It's too much. I don't know when violence was deemed such a cinematic thing.
Derek Cianfrance
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To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. That implies that everyone else (such as the opposing football team, driver, student, parent) is de-selected, unfavored by God, and that I am special,above it all.
Dan Barker