Football Quotes

Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.

Ndamukong Suh
- Up
- Growing
- Basketball
Sometimes you wonder, do referees understand the game of football?

Roy Keane
- Sometimes
- Wonder
- Games

It felt like I'd been playing second-string football for a long time, when, suddenly, I was playing in the Super Bowl. Even when 'Basic Instinct' was a hit, I still felt like I was running with that ball toward the end zone. It took awhile for me to realize that I was already in the end zone with the ball down and the crowd screaming on its feet.

Sharon Stone
- Long
- Running
- Realizing
The only moment football really stops is with a penalty kick - and that is a moment that is really dramatic. A penalty kick becomes a Western duel. It's two guys facing each other. Destiny and potential death, whether metaphorical or literal. That's why in the penalty kick at the end of the film, I shot it like an homage to the Sergio Leone Westerns I saw when I was a kid, especially The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

Carlos Cuaron
- Film
- End
- Dramatic
Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let's say admired, as a football star.

Sepp Blatter
- Country
- Humans
- Stars
Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

Henry Rollins Black Flag
- Player
- Brain
- Injury
I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.

Red Grange
- Guy
- Running
- Smart
I have a very strange way of playing football.

Luis Suarez
- Football