Quotes About Football

Our quarterback is going to be Alex Smith.

I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 21 years.

My football idol growing up, I was named after Walter Payton, but my idols at RB were Barry Sanders and Emmitt Smith.

I like the Steelers now just because I played in Pittsburgh. I'm a fan, but I liked the Cowboys growing up. I like Emmitt Smith a lot.

Running backs like Emmitt Smith and Barry Sanders, you were lucky to get a piece of them.

I can't keep sitting on the bench and letting my life go on, smoking a cigar and not doing anything. It's not me. I want to be playing football.

Arsenal's style of play is so smooth and easy and I hope I can adapt to their style quickly.

I think I needed to hit the reset button and figure out how I want to play football. I want to play football at a smooth, calm level.

I've been through some adversity where I didn't have football. Having it back gives you an appreciation for every snap you can take. I'm just blessed to have that opportunity.

I played 51 percent of the snaps outside, though. But you can go ahead and call me a slot as well.

There's a lot of games played, a lot of snaps played over the long haul.

My plan always was to play college football, hope to get a few snaps in and then go on to medical school. As I went further in my career and got to my junior year, I realized as I looked around, 'I got a shot here, and I might as well go after it.'

Make the right decisions and play football for as long as you can because there is a limited number of snaps you'll be able to take over the course of your career. Enjoy the whole thing though, because it's really fun.

More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.

I'd say that, 99 percent of the time at Nevada, I knew what the coverage was and where I was probably going before the ball was snapped. It makes it very easy when I only had to read one person and know that I was going from here to here, and if not, I'm checking it down.

I think I'm very good at reading coverage and knowing where I want to go with the ball before the ball is snapped.

The injury that ended my time in football turned out to be serendipitous. I tore my Achilles while training for a pending tryout with the New York Giants, and when it snapped, so did my career, basically. That's what led me to gain the confidence to get into the acting world on my own terms.

There's always been a snobby dismissal of football and the emotions it elicits in millions of people.

Everybody's going to play in tough-weather games - snow, rain, sleet - but you've got to hold onto the football.

I played on frozen pitches, on snow. I had only a couple of years indoor before I went to England.

For me, watching football played in the snow is abominable, as in snowman.

What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.

It's a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it's all about football. That's what they remember about me.

I respect so many people in football. There is so many coaches and people that I trust and respect, and get their advice and take very serious when they recommend somebody.