Quotes About Football

A third of all loggers in the Northwest will be seriously injured at some time during their careers. According to medical insurance records in Washington and Oregon, only two lines of work are more dangerous than logging - professional football and crop-dusting.

Part of my job leading the line for Watford is to occupy centre-halves - by that I mean those battles with Huth, say, to try to win headers when the ball is played forward. But I also look to bring centre-halves out of position to the flanks and make space for my team-mates in the middle.

On any play where there's a scramble of 22 men, blindside hits and unprotected hits on knees occur.

In football, you never know what can happen tomorrow. This is the elite, and you have to be ready for any situation that can occur.

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

Of course I have the odd bad game like other players. But I can't accept that. Especially when things don't go right for United. It all means so much to me to be succesful here. It drives me crazy at times.

In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.

Alan Shearer came in at a time when he was one of the only people on this planet who could have kept Newcastle up and he did a fantastic job in everything else but the odd result not going his way.

I make more money in the off-season than I do playing football.

When you have a guy that each week you can change up your game plan a little bit depending on what an offense does - you can put him at nickel, you can put him at linebacker position, Will or Sam or whatever they have him doing, he can create a matchup that the offense is not ready for.

The rules of the game really have given the offense an advantage, especially with pass interference.

Donovan McNabb has great, fast feet and has learned to lock them in to run the Eagles' offense effectively.

I just love Coach Koetter's offense.

It's great knowing going into the week that you have a guy like Peyton Manning that's going to throw you the ball. You know that during the week, he's working on different things that's going to help our offense, stuff that makes you get better.

I want to go play behind that great offensive line they have down in Dallas.

When I do defensive work well it always helps my offensive game.

That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.

The reality is that it's just the nature of the game. It's the nature of playing offensive line, defensive line, and linebackers, where your responsibilities as a player involve those little hits that are going to accumulate. You can't take that out of the game.

Bringing in a guy like Jordan Howard is going to help us immensely: a guy that you can give the ball to behind five really good offensive linemen and say, 'Go to work.'

I got to know Peyton Manning when he was a high school junior and I was the offensive coordinator at Mississippi State.

I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.

I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.

We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.

English football is very offensive, all about fast attacks, and I like that.