Football Quotes (2851 Quotes)

It stems from the football field. Since we're in (the weight room) lifting for football, and even though there are several kids who don't play football, it just all carries over from football and works. I think that everyone understands Ben is really the heart of (the team).

We're praying for a fast recovery and that everything will be back to normal. There's a lot of life after football.

For the amount of help he (Rodgers) had, and we weren't blessed with a lot of football people in those days, he did an outstanding job. He got a lot of backing in the community. This community was definitely ready for football.

There is a real danger here that this can become a political issue, that this young boy will be a political football. And I think the president has made it very clear to everyone that they ought to stay away from politics here and stick to what the facts and the law dictate.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up -- from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's OK You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

It's really sad. He was a young kid trying to do what we're all doing. Play football.

I feel bad that we didn't play the way we needed to on the football field. He's going to end up helping some other team out a lot.

He won't have to think about it or hear from his agent what the organization is thinking. He can stay focused on football - not that Jeremy hasn't been focused.

A lot of riders think of something like a football helmet, but over the past four or five years, they've become very lightweight, ventilated and comfortable. The important thing is a good fit you have to try models from different manufacturers.

I had a weird moment a couple days ago where I was sitting there during stretching, and I was like, 'I can't believe I've won two Super Bowls and I'm 27 years old and I'm sitting here playing professional football,' ... I guess I never thought I could possibly do that.

We wanted to control the clock and keep our hands on the football.

Like a quarterback for a football team, CEOs get to take all of the credit when things go well and have to take all of the blame when things go badly. Yet legally, they are not held accountable. When a quarterback fumbles, throws a few interceptions, maybe even throws the game, the coach has a responsibility to bench him, so that no more follies will occur.

He's got nine Division I offers right now. Honestly, it's not for his speed as much as it is based on his technique and his ability to cover the pass as well as help on the run. He's got good size at around 6-foot-2 and 200 pounds. The only true time I have on him, from the Nike Combine, is in the 4.5 neighborhood. In talking to college coaches, they're very impressed with his footwork and in that he has a great nose for the football.

Every kid in the family, besides Marvel, left the house by the age of 16. There was less stress living on our own than trying to survive in the environment we were in. I don't know how Marvel did it. He spent his time playing football, but the cards were stacked against him.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

He wants to be good and will do whatever it takes to be good. He wants to understand everything. He's got a great work ethic and a great understanding of football. He understood football when he got here.

We just didn't catch the football like we should have caught it. We've got to get better at that. We've got a guy who does a great job throwing the football.

While Richard was listening to music in the basement, I was out playing baseball and football, and playing with my machine gun I was very tomboyish, quite a character, I hear.

It's great to have this behind me and to know I'm going to be with the Giants and with this group of guys for a long time, ... This is a big relief and it means I can just concentrate on playing football. No one knew the negotiations were going on, so it

I repeat, I made a good decision. Anyone who understands the rules of football must see that. In all this business, I have never doubted for a moment that I was right. Not for one moment.

Their football is not like our football, and I was asking Vinnie to explain cricket to me and he asked me to explain American football to him.

That was a heck of a football game. I've got to give all the credit in the world to (our) players. This is a team that believes a lot in itself even when others don't.

They're very dependent on their core. I think they've got a little more depth than us because they can bring some bigger guys off the bench. But they don't have football, so that's one advantage we have, I guess, over them.

He shared my concerns and my thoughts that if we had the opportunity to add a guy who's experienced, who's played and who's won and who's taken his team to the Super Bowl that would be in the best interest of the football team,

Although we would have liked to play a game, there are more important things in life than football. We understand the decision and our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends affected by Hurricane Katrina.

It's part of our sport, ... It's kind of like going to a football game, and you hope you see a big hit or a big tackle. It's part of the theater that's involved with our sport it's part of what draws fans in. If we were out there in go-karts running 10 miles an hour, they wouldn't be watching. It's part of the risk. Of course, I don't want anybody to crash, I don't want to crash, but we've made a lot of gains in the safety department so that we are having wrecks and everybody is walking away.

They don't want to just sit there, line up and play football. They want to try to catch you off guard. They don't want to play smash-mouth football. They want to trick you. They want to catch you substituting. They want to make you think. They want it to be a thinking game instead of a football game.

We've always felt that when you change coaches, you become like an expansion team, because you're starting over, in a sense. Football is our family business, and we tend to believe that you're better served with stability. We kind of think that patience isn't such a bad virtue to have.

His boys are at that age where they're throwing the football, ... He sees there are the boys out there playing ball, and I'm almost positive that he went, My dad used to be out there all the time.'

When I was visiting the UW Athletic Department, they had a (computer-generated) promotional picture of the football team in front of the Colosseum, all wearing gladiator outfits, ... I knew I was on the right track.

The No. 1 (criterion) in my mind for drafting a player is tape. How did he play as a college player The second-most-valuable piece is going to be the character side, football and personal. That gives you a better way to predict how he'll be as a pro. Those two things will tell you.

It wasn't easy after the way the game started for us. There was a little lack of concentration at the start but we reacted very well and played some good football.

I know everybody wants to see the ball slung all over the field, and everybody can stand up and cheer. As former quarterback, I love to throw the football, and we're going to get better.

I've been with him in public he's almost annoyingly nice. He'll sit there and hold a conversation with people that want to talk football. The next thing you know, they're talking baseball, they're talking, 'Where are you from' That's just the kind of guy he is. Everywhere I go with him, he ends up holding an extended conversation with a stranger.

This is three games, this is not the season. We have a lot of football ahead of us. We come into work tomorrow, we're looking forward, not backwards, same as we did last year.

He played basketball, but he ate lunch with me in the cafeteria last year. I told him, 'You're going to play football.' He said, 'I am' I just said, 'Yes, you are.' Then one day, he turned around and said, 'Coach, how do I block as a receiver' Right then, I knew I was going to have a good one.

We didn't come here just to come here. We're good and we play a tough schedule. I wanted to represent the Huron League, because everybody thinks we're just a football league.

It gives people an opportunity to know a little bit more about us and what we like to do instead of just what happens on the football field. And it's a great treat for us as well.

When you think of college football, that's one of the games you think about right off the bat. Kids want to play in it.

We set up a hazardous waste collection site down by the football field. It's a good way to get the club out there.

We addressed our concerns with respect to his contract. I don't want to get into the details, but I will tell you the concerns over play time, those were a part of our negotiations. If Kurt is playing and we're producing as a football team, then I think everyone is happy.

It takes a special athlete to compete at such a high level in both football and basketball. James came here to play both sports, and I admire the way he handles the dual role. Wide receiver is one of the more complex positions on the football field, so to have that much success in his first season speaks volumes about James' talent and potential.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

We've made some changes over the past few months, such as recently adding new athletic fields -- for soccer, football, lacrosse and varsity baseball -- by the end of this past summer before starting the actual construction for the building.

Now I just want to play football.

At the appropriate time, Elvis' pink Cadillac arrived on the football field and made a slow trip in front of everyone in the bleachers. The top was down, and he was sitting on the top of the back seat waving at us as he went by.

It's difficult to swallow the defeat. We started well and took the lead, but unfortunately we couldn't sustain it or extend it. It's hard for the players, but they should be proud. In the end, this is football.

Hunting is deeply ingrained in our folklore and heritage. Just like former US president Richard Nixon watched the Washington Redskins play football, here you go kill Bambi or some birds and you're part of one of the boys.

I think football is a more interesting 'watch' on television than in the arena. Every year, we tweak the information we give fans. We give information you can never get at the stadium.