Quotes About Football

If you had to attend a football game, this was the kind of day to do it, Lucas thought. The sun was shining in a bright blue sky, the air was crisp and cold, and the crowd passing through the high arches into the Princeton stadium was in a festive mood, waving pennants and calling out to each other in boisterous voices.

cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life.

Let's face it, a lot of people think Nixon is dull. Think he's a bore, a pain in the ass. They look at him as the kind of kid who always carried a bookbag. Who was forty-two years old the day he was born. They figure other kids got footballs for Christmas, Nixon got a briefcase and he loved it. He'd always have his homework done and he'd never let you copy.

Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.

If you want something sweet, order the pound cake. Anybody who puts sugar in the corn bread is a heathen who doesn't love the Lord, not to mention Southeastern Conference football.

I don't think there's anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers...I mean Chargers.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

At Barca we trained every day with the ball. I hardly even took a step running without a ball at my feet.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.