Best Football Quotes

You fail all the time, but you aren’t a failure until you start blaming someone else.

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

Until Sammy Baugh – pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass.

I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don’t do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.

There’s two kinds of coaches, them that’s fired and them that’s gonna be fired.

Football is Freedom, a whole universe.

The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football… can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain.

Chess has definitely helped me understand a lot of the strategy of football. In chess, good offense is often an exercise in putting multiple points of pressure on one square. In football, offensive play design (particularly passes) involves putting multiple points of pressure on one player. In chess, you often give your opponent a move that looks strong for him, but it turns into a trap. Football is the same way. I’ve always thought of defense in football as being totally reactive. But now I understand the ways in which football defenses force the offense to make certain choices.

Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called the offside rule. Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

As a global company, ATT is proud to have its name associated with this great university and some of the most exciting college football in the country. We appreciate our strong working relationship with Texas Tech, and we are grateful for the university’s leadership to make the Jones ATT Stadium name a reality.

My point to you is, there is no such thing as a flop that takes the field for our football team. Just so ya know, I’m proud of those men. How ****ing easy would it have been to say it’s their night. Excuse my language. Spectacular group of men. You got to find them, you throw your arms around them and give them a big kiss on the mouth, if you’re a girl.

I’ve got a Championship game to play and I’m excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it.

Now we’re getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don’t miss it and don’t ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don’t know what they’re missing.

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

Then I went to UCLA – so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan… and later came to football.

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

If my mother hadn’t thrown my football boots on the fire, I might have become as famous as Denis Compton.

I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

You just can’t believe how quickly things happen in football and the way life turns. I went from being the bad guy, the worst player who gets all the criticism, to being the player who makes the difference and scores the important goals.

I love the values football can teach. It gives young people a sense of how to defer present gratification for future success, it teaches self-discipline, it teaches teamwork, it gives them a bonding experience that can be hard to find somewhere else, it teaches the ability to process large amounts of information and apply it in real time.

I think we’ve reached that point where we understand medically what we are doing to ourselves with these sports. In football, it’s kind of hard to get the access that you want for the story and, of course, it’s very long-term: the effects of the repeat concussions really don’t hit until decades afterwards, whereas the traumatic injuries in extreme sports are very immediate. I realized Traumatic Brain Injury was a fascinating and important story that not had been told very much. I wanted to know more.

As for football in L.A., it’s going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you’ll beat him though he has more talent than you.

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That’s when I knew I had some athletic ability.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

Of course money takes that worry out of your life and enables you to provide for your family – but if it was playing professional football for free or choose another living, then I would choose football every time.

It’s a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy.

In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that’s coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft – and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.

We have demonstrated that we are the best, I’m also happy because everyone seems to enjoy our football, whether or not they are Barca fans. All over the world, I’ve heard people saying that they have been enchanted by us. This type of football deserves to be rewarded with titles.

Sometimes he does the brilliant things really well.

When you get down to it, at it’s root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: ‘Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.