Football Quotes

Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.

My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.

It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

I really do love football.

I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done.

In the States, there's ESPN3, and each country has different options, and other than premiere league football, there tends to be very little global content. And movie and TV rights are pretty broad content.

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.

I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

Growing up in Canada, I didn't watch football much.

It's football season; anything can happen.

With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.

There are hundreds of Beckhams playing football all over the world.

After all, is football a game or a religion?

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

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.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.