Football Quotes

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

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

When you're a kid that's all you want to do, go out and play football.

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!

When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.

I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

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.

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

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.

As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.

I love football, football is my life.

To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.

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.

Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.

I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.

Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.

I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

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.

You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.

I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.

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.

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.