Quotes About Football

Pass a lot, use some reverses and toss in a gadget play once in a while for the TV audience. None of that detracts from winning.

Playing football in Fargo has a total big-time feel. Everyone says it's FCS and it's a smaller school, but in Fargo, North Dakota, and in the state of North Dakota, NDSU football is the real deal.

Honestly, I always told my coaches my whole career - we'll practice two-minute drills in practice, like, once a week and everything - I'm just like, 'Those are my favorite time of football.' I'm out there in total control, just getting everything lined up, getting everybody on the same page, and obviously, usually it's pass after pass after pass.

Ronaldinho and I are two totally different players. He is an attacker and I'm a defender, so there is no comparison. I did not feel any pressure, because I love to play my own style.

I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.

I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him.

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

My husband can not f****ing throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time.

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

As the seconds tick down, Belgium are literally playing in time that doesn't exist.

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

As far as a guy like Ray Lewis is concerned, you know hes going to be around the ball all the time.

I've been fortunate and blessed to further my career in the Arena Football League, and I've had a good time doing it.

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

Thank you... preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.

What I try to do is create an energy, create an excitement, but at the same time keep everybody focused and realize it's still just a game, that we have to move the football.

Every time I set foot on the Bernabeu turf I got the jitters, a kind of anxiety that takes hold of you the moment you step out into the glare of the floodlights.

My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

I think one thing as far as my learning curve and what I'm learning - there is a time to take a sack, and then there is also a time to try to find a way to maybe throw the ball at a receiver's feet.

For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies.

In football, I don't have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many... Most of the time, I'm alone.

With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.

Some guys, football comes really easy to them; they can see what all 22 players are doing, can see what all 11 guys are doing on their side of the ball, how it all fits together. It's easy for them.

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.