Football Quotes (2851 Quotes)

I think the best place to work in football is England.

We need to make sure we are putting the best product on. Not only professional hockey and a potential upgrade to the teams that are there, but also arena football.

He's here, he's paying his own way for classes, and he's taking part in football activities. He's a walk-on who'll be fighting for a chance to play, just like everybody else.

On the positive side for the Wolverines, Lloyd Carr said he felt they had found a defense after it had been widely dismissed as incapable. Notre Dame finished with 244 yards of offense and was 4-for-15 on third down. It gained a paltry 56 yards in the second half. We lost a football game, but I think we found a defense, ... I liked the way we played from a standpoint of effort and aggressiveness. I thought we were very physical. That's the kind of defense, if we can maintain that kind of effort, we'll have a good football team.

We've been around long enough to know ... if we start off 0-3, there's still a lot of football left, ... And while we can't wait too much longer, we know we've got to get this thing righted. I think we have the makeup to do it, and I think we've got the talent to do it.

I'm not exactly a huge video game player, but I'm thinking about getting it. You always see the football guys playing their game, so I thought, 'Why isn't there a college baseball game' Now that there is, I just hope I'm not bad in it.

It will be good for team building and bonding and to travel with the football team, ... Hopefully, it will be a trip to remember.

We're kinda in the same boat. It probably will come down to who takes better care of the football. It'll come down to who's matured the most to this point in the season. Both teams will have a lot of first-time Friday night players.

Wherever he's at next year, whether it's here or somewhere else, they are going to be fortunate to have Dom Capers. He's one of my best friends in football. I have so much respect for him, more so now than in the first three years, just because of what he's gone through. He's just as strong as a rock on the sidelines. He hasn't changed.

I haven't heard anything formal, but if Ben does quit rep football, it would be a blow because he has been such an influential and tremendous player for NSW and Australia over the years.

That is very important to know that he is really a friend, and it's not just a football thing. That he can communicate with you at all times, not only on a football basis.

Probably the hardest thing for them to understand, especially the kids we have who play football, is that lacrosse offense isn't based on set plays. It's more prudent to just have an offensive scheme. Being creative with the ball is the best way to score.

It was really weird. We played football, basketball and baseball but it didn't matter until it was Cass. Then it was different. It seemed like all of the games would go down to one point.

Could it be minus 40 ... Yeah. Would that be too cold to play Yeah. But that's the risk you take when you put an NHL hockey game in a football stadium outside in November.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

We're expecting a lot better sales due to the large freshman class. Also, we are looking forward to the football season when things cool down and we get into 'pizza weather,'

Coach Adams has a first-hand understanding of our football tradition and a wonderful vision for what is possible going forward. There have been a lot of positives within the football program over the past seven months and we are looking forward to seeing these play out as success on the field.

I have heard every threat that there is. It's just that time of year where people posture. But to take the year off and not play football, that is professional suicide.

Anything that happens in Boston that's as large as the Coltrane concert demands our attention. It's a major part of our cultural landscape. Football comes in the fall, and so does the Coltrane concert.

You can't beat a football team like Ware County if you turn it over that many times.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Mario can really lay the wood. If you cross his path with the football, you are going to get stuck. He inspires other players with how hard he hits.

It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that.

Both players are dismissed for conduct detrimental to the welfare of the football team.

Over the last six years with licenses, whenever I've given somebody a foot, they've taken a football field,

I thought our defense would be able to stop the run better than we did last year (a 60-34 loss). That was our weakness last year, and it didn't happen. I was surprised they were able to run the football like they did.

I think pressure is everything. When people get in the playoffs, there's pressure to win. It's win or go home. I don't feel any more this week than I did last week or the week before. It's one and done if you don't play well. We're looking at this week no different than last week. We're just trying to win a football game. If we do, we have an opportunity to go on, and if not, our season is done. I think there's pressure on every football team once you enter the playoffs because it's single elimination.

Can they co-exist Absolutely. They've been together for a year, T.O. knows the offense, he's an incredible athlete in fabulous shape, and I think he understands now that the best thing for him is to shut up, play football, help this team get to another Super Bowl and win it.

This isn't football. You don't have to be the best team all season. In the tournament, it's one night.

I told John he doesn't have to make that decision. I'll make that decision for him, basically. And if he's not 100 percent, he really can't help the football team.

I've been treated fair since I got here, ... I have no problem with how I've been treated. I've been booed, but that's football. A lot of the time, I would have booed, too.

Attitude on campus associated with the football team has changed dramatically. That all starts with Dan Hawkins. As you get a chance to hear from him and meet him, you will see why that is. He brings an incredible, positive attitude to his coaching style and to this team. He pushes the players in a different way. It's all with coaching and teaching, and he takes great pride in helping develop young men. He loves our kids.

There are things that we still need to do. There's certain things at stake and our guys understand that. Also, we need to keep improving as a football team. That's the mentality that this group has taken on. They understand that they haven't reached their peak.

Just getting kids interested in football here is a job in itself. We get 50 freshmen, and all of them want to play basketball.

They're pretty base in what they do. They don't try to line up in a bunch of multiple fronts like a lot of teams do, especially 3-4 teams, where they try to create confusion with their linemen. They've got great run-support safeties who come up and make plays. Their linebackers and defensive line are physical. These guys line up and play football.

We have to be able to run the ball on a consistent basis. We open up at Wilkes and you never know what the weather is going to be like this time of year. You cant count on throwing the ball 40 or 50 times a game. Plus, in this league, you have to be able to manage the football and manage the clock. The way some of these teams are, the best way to beat them is to keep their offense off the field.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

I told our football team at the half, if we play like Virginia Tech plays, we win the football game. Thats being efficient, hard-nosed, tough, chasing the football, playing aggressively I was proud we ended the day playing like Virginia Tech plays. I thought our kids gave great effort. They hung in there and kept battling and kept coming back.

Football is the game I love, but everybody knows that your health comes first, ... In a way, it's been a blessing. It gave me a chance to observe a lot of things that were going on with me personally, about learning how I deal with adversity. And it gave me time to think about my future beyond football. Usually, when football season's going on, it's all about football.

The less Tad knows the better, ... I don't want Tad to worry about me. I want him to focus on school and football.

Glanville said he faced similar long odds 15 years ago, when he was the Atlanta Falcons' head coach. We were a 17-point underdog (against Houston), ... For pro football, that's huge.

We'll have to stay away from turnovers, control the football and keep the ball away from them as much as possible.

I'm not wild and crazy, there's nothing going on here, if the Steelers were playing we'd go to a football game, or otherwise watch movies.

In the game of football, there's a lot of passion involved. To have a young man missing from your family, it makes you look at things with a different mindset. We've raised funds every year, but this year, there's no doubt what our fund-raiser was going t

Yes, we've got a few Scotland internationals who play regularly but their last game was still in front of just 1,500 people, ... So, OK, you're playing international football against decent players but European football is about the night, the occasion, t

Edwards commented as he signed an extension to his contract. We have good young players in the program and strong schedules in the coming years. The future looks bright for BYU football. I also want to get a number of projects off the ground before I retire.

We're going to go into the game and simply play Denver Broncos football, and that's how it's been all season long.

Football in this country, especially the national team, means a lot to them. If the national team is not doing well, people -- I'll go as far as to say they have less confidence and they don't believe in Germany anymore. It's tightly knit. Politics and soccer, they're close.

They do such a great job with that show. I get up and watch the football one all the time. This is a neat thing, something to get excited about.

He's a big sucker, and he plays hard. He's as good as it gets in college football.