Football Quotes

"Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit"

"I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school"

Ed O'Neill, Actor

"Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill"

Charisma Carpenter, Actress

"I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school"

Bobby Sherman, Musician

"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, Athlete

"I lust love to play football"

Ray Nitschke, Athlete

"The good thing is I don't put the ball in my right hand and I'm predominantly left-handed when I'm running the ball. I just have to take care of the football and even if I have two hands that are 100 percent, I still can't turn the ball over. It's just something I have to mentally prepare for, and I think I'm strong enough to do that"

Michael Vick, Athlete

"WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks"

Tom Brady, Athlete

"I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns"

Will McDonough, Writer

"It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics"

Snoop Dogg, Musician

"You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college"

Ruben Studdard, Musician

"I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football"

James Cameron, Director

"The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white"

Stuart Pearce, Coach

"Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career"

Jack Youngblood, Athlete

"I will do whatever it takes to win a football match"

Stuart Pearce, Coach

"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"

Michael Vick, Athlete

"We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that"

Kevin J. Anderson, Author

"When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

"I was not a very good football player when I started out"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

"Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me"

Kenny Cunningham, Athlete

"I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them"

Jason Kidd, Athlete

"I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football"

Zakk Wylde, Musician

"What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out"

Steve Spurrier, Coach

"In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen"

Thierry Henry, Athlete

"I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses"

Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress

"Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye"

Roger Kahn, Writer

"I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football"

Graham Roberts, Actor

"I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now"

Ricky Williams, Athlete

"If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas"

Ricky Williams, Athlete

"Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple"

Bill Shankly, Athlete

"I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football"

John Cale, Musician

"Our coaches want to be a part of South Carolina football when they win it for the first time. When they win the division, when they win the SEC, win a major bowl game, etc. The opportunities to do it all for the first time here make it extra special"

Steve Spurrier, Coach

"I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it"

Jay Hernandez, Actor

"Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by"

Kenny Cunningham, Athlete

"I don't think there's any question that the UFL or any other league that wants to challenge the NFL can have an impact. The demand for professional football is off the charts"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that"

Bill Shankly, Athlete

"What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball"

Bill Shankly, Athlete

"A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are"

Bill Shankly, Athlete

"Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important"

Bill Shankly, Athlete

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