Quotes About Football

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)

Attitude is the whole thing in football. Every team has the talent and the coaching. Motivation makes the difference. The teams that win stay healthy and interested.

The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.

I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

Let's win one for the Gipper.

The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side

In my family, Mom can lead the sports activities, no problem! Except football - that, my husband does.

Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.'

At the heart of Scots culture, though, was an awful interdiction of such emotional closeness between men and women; a terrible separation inflicted by a distorted football-obsessed emotional tyranny, such a deep injury of the soul.

Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.

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

Well we certainly don't want to see that kind of thing,' admonished Jeff Stelling. 'Did it calm down?' 'No,' shouted Kamara. 'It got worse. The police were just getting involved when the chairman was hit by a pie thrown from the crowd.' 'Was he injured?' asked Stelling, struggling to suppress a giggle. 'I don't think so,' laughed Kamara. 'He sat down and started eating it!

I think you're a shit,' said Keith sharply. 'I think much of what you've done this season is shit and I think what you've put everyone involved with this club through is shit. How's that?