Football Quotes

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.

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

There are things players go through on an everyday basis in the business of football. You don't see it all with the glitz and glamour of game day.

I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.

I'm a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It's pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football too.

One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

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

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It's not a job, it's a passion. When you become good at it, it's a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.

In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.

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

My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field.

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.