Quotes About Football

We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

This quarterback Weeden can drive the ball down field. He's a thing of beauty on throwing a football. His passing motion and his arm, frankly, you won't see a more gifted passer, power, accuracy, the entire aspect of it.

There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.

I just banged it a little bit on a helmet. And you know, if you get your throwing motion and momentum going at a helmet it makes it hurt a little more and it freaks everybody out because it's your throwing shoulder, but honestly, it feels great.

I love competing, and I love throwing the football.

With respect to the super-rich Saudis taking over at Newcastle, they are likely to bring success to a famous football club by throwing money at it.

I worked my way through college by throwing passes for the University of Kentucky.

Actually, I started throwing the stiff-arm in college. I had some big plays in college from the stiff-arm.

Wading into a sell-out 3,500 crowd to separate hooligans throwing punches is not what I expected as director of football at a phoenix club.

I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry.

The history of football has always thrown up big surprises.

Nothing can prepare you fully for how harsh football fans can be, but it makes you more robust, able to deal with a lot of what is thrown at you in life.

I think first and foremost, you've got to be able to run the football to be successful in college football. Some teams have thrown the ball 60 times a game and had success doing that. But I think you've got to be able to run the football to have success.

I get football facts thrown at me by taxi drivers.

Throwaways are OK. When a quarterback throws the ball away in our system, that's a plus. That's a plus decision. That's the way I've always graded it.

When you can recognize hot throws and blitzes, that's when they can slow down their blitz and they don't want to blitz you as much because you're getting the ball out.

Some of the best quarterback play is when you're able to move in the pocket and still make throws down the field because it's not going to be clean every time.

Aaron Rodgers, he throws that back-shoulder throw so well.

Thursday night football should be illegal.

The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.

For me, Thursday night football is a great time for me to enjoy the game with my family, as I'm not able to watch as much on Sundays.

Playing on a Thursday and then a Sunday is not a problem.

Doing the games for the NFL Network on Thursday night on a short week, that's work.

The Thursday night game is by far the most difficult game to prepare for. You can't get into as much depth as you normally would in your game plan because you just don't have the time. You've got to jump right into the next opponent.