Quotes About Football

There's been a lot talk about football and safety issues. My big thing is the benefits far outweigh the risks.

Those 12 o'clock kick-offs can be good if you win as then you've got the rest of the day to celebrate and enjoy it. On the other hand, if you lose, it's not a nice feeling. You spend the rest of the day mithering about the game and going over it in your mind for the next eight hours.

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

There's always that time in football where people say that when you have the dip, it's how well do you overcome it. And when you do overcome it, you then end up being a much better player and generally your career lasts a lot longer after getting through that period.

I've always gone through adversity in this game, and I've always overcome it. My middle school coach told me that I was probably a better hockey player than a football player, and that still drives me every day.

For me, if the ball's in the net, it doesn't matter if it's an overhead kick or just a tap-in.

I understand football. I have always been a good footballer, and that gets overlooked by most people.

Nobody at the FA has ever explained why I was overlooked and not even asked for an interview.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson is not an overpowering guy, but a good pass blocker.

I think Matt Ryan's overrated.

I think audibles, the way people talk about it, it's overrated.

I'm happy that I can wear the Canadian jersey with pride. I'm happy that I can say I'm a Canadian playing overseas.

Of course, I want to try and overtake the record of goals scored in European cups with the Rossoneri shirt.

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of.& For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.

I stood there, 220 pounds of ex-football player, ex-public defender, ex-a-lot-of-things, leaning against the faded walnut rail of the witness stand, home to a million sweaty palms. To Speak for the Dead (The Jake Lassiter Series) http://tinyurl.com/69eua2t

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Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.

What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

I see football as an art and all players are artists.If you are a top artist, the last thing you would do is paint a picture somebody else has already painted.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

Those who only watched pro football from the safety of their stadium seats or big-screen TVs could never imagine the devastating power of enormous men running at speed into other enormous men. It was like being in a car accident over and over. It didn't merely hurt; it stunned. It shocked the body in so many different ways that one could never be the same afterward.