Quotes About Football

Almost every Division I college football team predates the oldest NFL teams by three or four decades. Most schools built their current stadiums before most NFL teams built their first—or second, or third. College football is one of those few passions we have in common with our great-grandparents.

Brandon envisioned a world in which the loser of the Michigan–OSU game could find redemption. That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works. You lose the game, you fume for 364 days until you have an opportunity to right the wrongs. This is not a carnival fun ride. It's college fucking football.

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

American football was thick in the air; war on the gridiron they called it. Well, at least those who had never been in the real thing called it that.

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

The best thing about having a footballer dad is seeing the game up close. You watch him train, then go home and practice what you've seen in the front room, rearranging the furniture.

There is no reason not to be happy at Chelsea.

I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.

The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.

When my business partner Rob Smethurst rang me up and said he wanted to rebuild the club as Macclesfield FC, and to bring me on board as his director of football operations, I thought he was mad.

I can't recall playing for a team who weren't involved in a fight for points at the end of the season. That would be strange for me.

When we're playing, I really shape my body to receive the ball - even before it gets to me.

If I receive a phone call from Real Madrid, I won't answer.

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

I received lots of offers, but Inter are a big club, and I can carry on growing here.

You add a good receiver and that will take pressure off your quarterback.

I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.

I played a little football when I was really young, but I didn't start until my junior year. My cousin, who was a big influence in my athletic career over time, said you should go out for receiver. I said let's give it a shot. I went out and played a little and caught a couple balls over a couple dudes heads.

I'll make changes at receiver before I make a change at the quarterback.

Cris Carter and Randy Moss - they're the guys who made me want to play football and be a receiver.

I kinda wanted to play receiver more.

Your job as a receiver is to get open and catch the ball and block in the run game.