Football Quotes (2851 Quotes)


    I think that is our identity, ... We run the football whether it's Warrick, T.J. or me. That's what makes our game go. If that's the way it's going to be, as long as we keep winning and as long as I make my plays when I have to, things are all good.

    We do physical exercises where he can gauge a little bit their physical toughness and their leadership and their commitment to it, but (now) he gets to coach real football. That's what's exciting.

    England should change their name to Great Britain, if only to help Welshmen like me have easier lives. It's so tedious explaining to work colleagues how I can support 'England' in cricket and England's opposition in rugby and football.

    The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.




    To identify that is to sort of identify exactly what we think is happening. We can say generally from a football standpoint, it's something we need to have greater success at. We take ourselves out of field-goal position (by giving up sacks), we stall drives. Sacks also lose field position for us. They put us in a dysfunctional situation when we have that kind of play, but to say why is probably not the wisest thing. We don't want to give (the opposition any advantage). They watch the film and they can see and know.

    I think he's been what a coach should be. He wants everything done the right way. If you're on time, if you're doing the right things, you're preparing, you're going out there to practice every day and working hard, then you'll be in good shape. That's kind of the way I've always expected a football coach to be.

    The early church, when they started, they were together. They had unity. They had oneness. And they ended up impacting the world, ... One morning I read that and I said, 'That's just like the game of football.' It's not necessarily that the church had the richest people or the brightest people, but they had unity and they had oneness. A football team, you don't necessarily have to have the biggest and the fastest, guys who can jump the highest and bench press the most, but if you've got unity and oneness, you have a chance to be a champion.

    You have to compete every time you walk on the field. You want to get better, no matter how long you have played. I don't care how many years you play, the game of football you always have to be learning.

    As far as getting the ball, I don't have so much pride where I have to have the ball or it's like, 'Get me the ball,' ... It will come when it comes and when I do get my opportunities I have to make plays. At the same I have to do other things as far as blocking or clearing out a route so that someone else can get open. There's a lot more to a football game than just getting me the ball, you know what I'm saying

    is that he's just not passionate enough about football. But when we started talking basketball he got excited. I think he's going to get his rookie paycheck and cruise. He also didn't do well in the psychological profiling we did on him.


    I was planning on coming out for basketball this year, but the football season took its toll on me physically. I needed to rest and rehabilitate some injuries. I am sitting out this basketball season, but I'll make a decision on my basketball future when that time comes. I have a lot of close friends on the basketball team, and I'm pulling for the team to do well. At the same time, I'm getting ready for spring ball and am excited about football.

    I'd be surprised if he did. Reggie Bush has the potential to become the most significant endorser in the universe of football players. But top-flight basketball players as a general rule are more sought-after.

    I'm biased. I've had No. 52 here for 10 years of great football. He's a great player and a great leader. You can talk about individual greatness, but you aren't a great football player until you can carry 10 other guys with you.

    The fans chanting 'Texas fight' were as loud as those at a football game. The atmosphere was incredible. Every time we scored a basket, I couldn't hear myself think because the crowd was so loud. We played so hard, and it made it so much more exciting to cut down the nets in front of all of our fans.




    I always thought I was an all-right writer, so I decided to join the newspaper. It's been fun. I get to write about wrestling, basketball and even write about outside sports like the Bears and college football.

    I think he's brought defined purpose to the football team. Everything they do, there is a reason. There is a specific plan of action. I think he's brought leadership and discipline to the football team and direction - all things that leaders are hired to bring beyond Xs and Os.

    We didn't want this thing to be a distraction. It was totally under the radar. This is special for me. The organization showed they'd like me to retire with it. We can just toss around the football now and that makes it so much easier.

    I've been there on many occasions with my wife and it's always one of the highlights of the football season to visit the tremendous fans in Kansas City - both before and after the game.


    We've had a difficult and trying time with all the political troubles but throughout that period, football has been a unifying force and the fans remained supportive. The atmosphere was unbelievable and I guess I felt it more than most given past history. Let's hope this is a stimulant and the starting point for a new future for Northern Irish football, because we've been in the dumps for many years.




    Midshipmen and cadets remain stronger and more aggressive than their male counterparts at civilian schools. They eagerly play sports such as rugby, boxing, karate, lacrosse, and football. They drive fast cars, usually sports cars. They play hard. They drink hard. They are physical, often abusive among each other. They are not trying to prove their manhood they are celebrating their masculinity. They are competitive, often vulgar, and tough, and every citizen who may someday send a friend or relative into war should rejoice, because combat is competitive, vulgar, and tough, and they will be leading men in combat.

    It wasn't his best effort. He will play better. He was hobbling a little bit, but that's part of football. He's one of our guys who we expect to play better. He's one of our leaders and best players. So we're counting on Levi, just like we're counting on (right tackle) Willie (Anderson).

    When you're a football player at the University of Texas and you're playing in the national championship game the players understand the scrutiny is going to be a little more than usual. I think we'll handle it.


    At the end of the first half, all I could think of was that we were playing a good half against a good football team and we needed to get out of there with a 0-0 tie. But kids make mistakes. In high school football, that's going to happen.

    Man, I always felt like high school football was where I needed to be. Having three boys helps that decision. Here at Calvary, I know I can have them in school with me and coach them when they're older. It's one of the reasons I came to Calvary. Stan is the same way. He's got daughters there.

    Her foreign policy influence in 2005 was very impressive and constructive, in contrast to her time as National Security Council adviser her role in the first term of the Bush administration. She has charisma - that rock star appearance at the football game in Alabama was really something. Whether that makes her a viable candidate for the presidency is another matter entirely.

    We want to play football. We have an obligation to everyone, particularly our fans. My gut is we're going to come up with something, but it's still up in the air. It's going to be long and drawn out and tough.

    There was one series (on Saturday) that was absolutely beautiful one-touch soccer. That's the type of football that I want to play. It's necessary that we have the ability to attack in the middle channel, that we have the ability to attack on the flanks. So yes, we continue to work on varying the way we attack. That's the only way we're going to repeat as champions.

    Like I told the football team, I thought we had a tremendous season. We accomplished a lot with some of the things we went through.

    But come Sunday, I get paid extremely well to go out there and play football, and that's what I plan to do. If anything, it tells you in life one minute you can have everything and the next it's gone. I'm going to go out and enjoy every game I get to play

    I look back at my days at Iowa, and we walked out on the football field with those guys, and we had no doubt we were going to win. It didn't matter what anyone was saying or doing. We walked out there knowing what we had was good enough to win. That's a g

    I've never had a make-or-break year in my life. I'm going to coach football, it's what I do. This program, to me, everything is pointing in the right direction. So we're going to work as hard as we can and be as smart as we can.

    I was clearly the best hurdler in 1980, and not getting a chance to go to the Olympics was very hurtful to me, ... It took me many, many years to address it. That was the single biggest motivating factor in going into football.

    Nederland is always such a sound and solid football team. Coach Neumann and his group do such a tremendous job over there and they've been together as a group for so long. I think they've been to the playoffs 10 straight years or so. They always have some good-looking kids. They look the same as they did in 1981. They have big kids that work hard year around. They look like they're just cut from a different mold. They just seem to reload every year with the tremendous depth they have. Another key to their success is that they don't turn over the football. They've won a lot of games over the years doing that.

    Coach was a great man obviously, a great coach, a very powerful coach. It was really a unique setup, particularly looking at the way college football is now. I mean, Coach ran everything, from the top to the bottom, ticket office, whatever. If there was a decision to be made about anything, he made it.


    I have no idea what I will do after the World Cup, but I am not losing sleep over it. I am not having any discussions, but I think that I will still be working in football in August.



    One of the great things about the Southeastern Conference is our fans and our support -- the importance of college football. On occasion that exuberance goes over the top. What we'd ultimately like to do is channel it on the field.



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