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Quotes About Football

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
~ Dave Barry
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well-educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.
~ Unknown
Nobody in the game uses their feet, but it's football. I love how Americans can just claim something to be whatever they feel it is, despite clear evidence it's not. Like a football game with nobody using any feet that takes forever.
~ Marlon James
I love how Americans can just claim something to be whatever they feel it is despite clear evidence it is not. Like football game with nobody using any feet that takes forever.
~ Marlon James
Whenever I visit the United States, for example, one of the first things I notice is that no one ever touches one another, especially the men. In America, touch is perceived as sexual. At the same time, American culture overemphasizes sports, especially football, which is one of the few places where men are given permission to touch, slap, wrestle, tackle and hug one another.
~ Martin Lindstrom
In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.
~ Maurice Greene
Once when the Packers had lost a game, a team meeting was held and Lombardi walked out with a football in his hand, and didn't say a word, simply scowling for five minutes, finally saying, sarcastically, "this, gentlemen, is a football!" From the back of the room came the voice of Max Magee, "could you take it a little slower, coach?" They said even Lombardi broke out laughing!
~ Max McGee
and, the highlight, Cristiano Ronaldo weeping on the grass after a knee injury in the 24th minute, while a lone Autographa gamma sips his teardrops away.
~ Unknown
You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.
~ Michael Connelly
Overtime unofficially, was won when one of the Patriot's captains, Matthew Slater, called heads on the coin toss.
~ Unknown
Special teams, field position, and situational football are all Belichick staples
~ Unknown
Brown had too many quality players for the thirty-three-man roster. Rather than waive them to other teams in the AAFC, he devised a secret plan with owner McBride by which several players who had been cut would land jobs with the Zone/Yellow Cab Co., with schedules arranged so that they could report to League Park in Cleveland, where the Browns practiced. Thus was born the "taxi squad" in pro football.
~ Unknown
Here's what I propose," he said. "At the end of each football season, I suggest that we pool the names of all eligible college seniors. Then we make our selections in inverse order of the standings—that is, the lowest-ranked team picks first. We do this round after round until we have exhausted the supply of college players.
~ Unknown
The NFL had been eyeing New Orleans for its next franchise anyway. So a thinly veiled quid pro quo was offered—a franchise for New Orleans in exchange for the exemption
~ Unknown
If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
~ Michael Mandelbaum
I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.
~ Michael Vick
Está el Pelé hombre y el Pelé jugador. Para jugar como Pelé hay que jugar como Dios.
~ Unknown
The one thing I don't glean any information about is her husband, so I let my imagination go to town. I imagine he's called Hugo, works at an art college and specialises in multimedia (whatever that is). At the weekend he plays football and squash and is currently in training for the London Marathon. In addition to this he plays the saxophone, is younger than me, and permanently smells of cinnamon. Make no mistake, Hugo is a right tosser.
~ Mike Gayle
The one think i don't glean any information about is her husband, so I let my imagination go to town. I imagine he's called Hugo, works at an art college and specialises in multimedia (whatever that is). At the weekend he plays football and squash and is currently in training for the London Marathon. In addition to this he plays the saxophone, is younger than me, and permanently smells of cinnamon. Make no mistake, Hugo is a right tosser.
~ Mike Gayle
didn't come right out and say so." "I played bad against Bancroft," Jake said. "Dad didn't seem too worried about how I was doing. I'm fighting every week to be the number one QB on this team. How come Dad never gave me one of his famous pep talks?" "Maybe he didn't think you needed one," his mom said. "And how would he know that?" Jake said. In that moment, Jake was thinking about when Wyatt had been home
~ Mike Lupica
My dad saw hockey as almost an improvement on soccer. My British relatives would say, 'But, Eric, football is the thinking-man's game.' My dad would say, 'True. But, hockey is a fast thinking-man's game.
~ Mike Myers
Manchester United is the most generous team I've ever seen. They scored two goals for themselves and two for their opponents.
~ Unknown
You know I'll never say no, and Nate's so dedicated, I think he loves our alpha more than me." "I resent that," Nate grumbled. "I might love football more than you, but definitely not Lucas's ugly mug.
~ Nalini Singh
She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad." "I bet" "I'm serious. I was heartbroken." "For how long?" "A whole week." An eternity in the life of a teenage boy.
~ Nalini Singh