About Football Quotes

#1. I don't like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate their program, their fans. I hate everything

Max Hall

#2. When I talk football with my friends, I don't talk about Tom Brady's hair. I talk about how he handles the blitz, or how he runs his offense. I talk as a fan. I don't want pink jerseys, and I don't want dumbed-down content. I want to be treated as a real fan - because I am proud to be one.

Indra Nooyi

#3. It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith)

Joe Gibbs

#4. They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.

Bear Bryant

#5. People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!

Sophia Bush

#6. Your 40 trillion cells contain at least a quadrillion mitochondria, with a combined convoluted surface area of about 14,000 square metres; about four football fields.

Nick Lane

#7. There's nothing easy about winning a game in the National Football League, let alone winning a championship, things that we've done in the past. However, that's in the past.

Rodney Harrison

#8. Over the years, I've had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don't think I look intimidating, but I'm sure other people have their opinions.

Vinnie Jones

#9. My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

Nancy Gibbs

#10. I think some people just don't know that much about comedy. It would be like a person who didn't know anything about football thinking all offensive linemen are the same.

Anthony Jeselnik

#11. I enjoy watching football on TV. Many times I can visualize the whole field, even on the TV screen, because I still know enough about what the teams are doing.

Tony Dungy

#12. Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.

Spike Dykes

#13. He was about as erotic as an old football coach.

Donna Tartt

#14. There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up.

Robert Griffin III

#15. I get too excited about football and rugby.

Matthew Lewis

#16. Today was about our lack of ability to not produce the ability we've got.

Sam Allardyce

#17. If studies come out and show that playing football is detrimental to your health for the long term, even for the short term, I think that's up to the players then to make the decision about whether they're going to play or not play.

Steve Largent

#18. I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.

Andrew O'Hagan

#19. Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy.

Rod Liddle

#20. I play a lot of football, watch a lot of football, and think about football.

Jamie Blackley

#21. To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.

Alice Dreger

#22. Look, girls and boys are different. Girls like to be touched twenty times a day in a nonsexual way to feel good about themselves - that is why I tickle you and link arms with you - but boys think about sex, snogging and football, and also snogging whilst playing football. Simple.

Louise Rennison

#23. It's a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy.

Luis Suarez

#24. The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter.

Arthur Hopcraft

#25. He'll probably wake up having sleepless nights about that one.

Alan Parry

#26. Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.

Pele

#27. You'll find your life greatly simplified if you only worry about stuff you can fix.

Deacon Jones

#28. It's none of our business, the sexual preference of people. So, I hope if someone's thinking about it, that if they do come out as gay and are a professional football player, and it makes them happy, and it makes their life easier, then I think they should do it.

Andrew Luck

#29. In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

Ruud Gullit

#30. It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.

Bernie Ecclestone

#31. Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

Jim Harbaugh

#32. Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

Wayne Rooney

#33. To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

Tom Brady

#34. In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.

Cam Newton

#35. Okay, I know he was captain of the football team and he could bake a cake - that didn't mean I was ready to suck his finger. I was picky about what I put in my mouth. "I'll wait," I told him. "Wouldn't want to spoil my appetite.

Janet Evanovich

#36. In my first season I was learning about English football in a new team. I scored 13 which isn't bad, but I think I can do better.

Luis Garcia

#37. Right now I don't want to think about Ali's future, the football games and parties she'll be going to without me, the people she'll meet that I won't even know. There's a

Laura Day

#38. Hmm, the best thing about being in the NFL? In America it's the No.1 sport; it's exciting, fun, so to me the best thing is the buzz that surrounds football on and off the field.

Reggie Bush

#39. I dream a lot about football and a lot of them have come true for me.

David Beckham

#40. I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

Max Walker

#41. There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.

Robert Griffin III

#42. I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

Ricky Williams

#43. The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

Ndamukong Suh

#44. I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.

Tamara Tunie

#45. I am from a city (Glasgow) that is not unlike Liverpool. I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans. It is a fantastic opportunity, something you dream about. I said 'yes' right away as it is such a big club.

David Moyes

#46. My goal
and this is kind of my own little secret
but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and, and, and be a missionary around the world. Places where Steve Young
not that it's big really that many places
but places where they have no idea about football.

Steve Young

#47. Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.

Idris Elba

#48. NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

O.J. Simpson

#49. Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

Jim Brown

#50. And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible.

Jonah Goldberg

#51. Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.

Bryce Harper

#52. I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

Pele

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

Jose Mourinho

#54. I don't care about three years ago - I don't care about two years ago. I don't care about last year. The only thing I care about is this week.

Tom Brady

#55. I just want to continue to play great football - that's all that matters. I don't really care about the accolades or any of that.

Justin Tuck

#56. What is especially irritating about the whole abortion debate is the way the subject has been used as a political football by those on both the right and the left of the political aisle.

Chuck Baldwin

#57. Whatever else might be said about Nixon - and there is still serious doubt in my mind that he could pass for Human - he is a goddamn stone fanatic on every facet of pro football.

Hunter S. Thompson

#58. I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

George Orwell

#59. I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.

Victor Cruz

#60. Knowledge relaxes me. Football is all about playing faster. You play faster when you know more.

Marshall Faulk

#61. If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football.

Franz Beckenbauer

#62. Everything to me is about team football, and if we keep winning Super Bowl trophies, I'll be fine.

Justin Tuck

#63. The first thing about Houston is it's an organization run from a different perspective. In Cincy, the team lives off money it earns from football. Houston's owner has other business interests, and he controls the money.

Johnathan Joseph

#64. The thing about special teams - and I think football in general - is sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you,

John Harbaugh

#65. The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.

Robert Carlyle

#66. I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.

Sandra Bullock

#67. I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.

Jerry Rice

#68. AFC Wimbledon in the League! Talk about the ashes rising from the flames.

Stan Collymore

#69. I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.

Jerry Spinelli

#70. I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

Ruby Wax

#71. I'm not trying to be the highest-paid receiver in the National Football League. I've never received that, and that's not ever going to happen. So I'm fine with what I have, I make good money, and I'm happy about it.

Donald Driver

#72. Today, professional football is about profit and making money. But it's not about how much money you spend, it's about how wisely you spend it.

John Riggins

#73. Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.

Bobby Charlton

#74. Harold (about max): he looks kinda like a football couch
Chester (sarcastically): Yay team rah rah. if he says anything athletic i'll scream
max: want to jog?
(chester screams).

James Howe

#75. The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Steve Young

#76. It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball.

Mark Teixeira

#77. Did you hear charming Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism? Do me a favour, love.

Richard Keys

#78. The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art.

Kasey Keller

#79. I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.

Kenny Cunningham

#80. Hell, I live like I did when I was 35. I don't believe in retirement groups because I don't believe in retirement. How long can I keep coaching? How about forever? I'll never walk off the field.

Sid Gillman

#81. Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.

Tom Udall

#82. It was Tottenham at home. I thought: 'Please don't go on about Tottenham, we all know what Tottenham are about. They are nice and tidy but we'll f****** do them.' Alex came in and said: 'Lads, it's only Tottenham.' And that was it! Brilliant!

Roy Keane

#83. I think players tend to get anxious if they've not really done things properly - like eating, resting or training. If you're fully prepared you've got nothing to worry about - it's just a game of football.

Roy Keane

#84. There's something amazing about tea. It's good before a meal, after a meal, when drunk, when taking drugs, while playing football and after being called a poof in the street.

Noel Fielding

#85. Some people in the town did not seem to care about the festival and were watching football on TV. The players were dotted about in neon green. They looked unreal, the way they might be seen by the forgotten man in the moon and the rabbit if they were watching the floodlit pitch forlornly from above.

Olivia Sudjic

#86. Some guys lose their focus. They get caught up in the business deals or the endorsements, and they lose their focus. For me, it's always about football. I've never lost sight of what's making all these other things happen.

Peyton Manning

#87. We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

Jacob Zuma

#88. I care about football, so what Im seeing regarding the image of FIFA, not only now but in the past years, I dont like it,

Luis Figo

#89. Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.

Alessandro Del Piero

#90. My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was told you left the managers to get on with the job and that the chairman must never interfere with the manager's decisions or the performance of his team.

Alan Sugar

#91. The best thing about football is that the rules are so simple. Anyone can play anywhere.

Jermain Defoe

#92. I do not know a lot about football. I guess I'm a Patriots fan because I'm from Boston? But I'm getting to know a lot more about it, and I'm finding it fascinating.

Callie Thorne

#93. The draft is one of my favorite events because it is about football. People are focused on how their teams improve. It's a celebration of football. And most importantly, it represents a very important time in the lives of these men who are entering the NFL, and their families.

Roger Goodell

#94. I didn't answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness.

Kimberly Novosel

#95. I played one year of fantasy football in high school. You really get into it. It makes more fans of the NFL, and people love talking about it. They'll come up to me and say, 'Why did you throw an interception? You ruined my fantasy team!' Or they're happy because they got you for a bargain.

Andrew Luck

#96. Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Archibald MacLeish

#97. Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.

Nick Hornby

#98. There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.

Terrell Davis

#99. There was no football on TV, which meant that I was reduced to watching cricket, which is about as interesting as watching grass grow. Thankfully they had introduced Twenty20 cricket, which was a lot faster paced and more interesting. It was more like watching grass get watered. I

Renae Kaye

#100. We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.

Bubba Smith