Football Death Quotes

#1. Whoever said death couldn't be measured was wrong. Death was a football field. Death was a sprint. Death was measurable distance I wasn't fast enough to reach.

M.R. Merrick

#2. To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

Don DeLillo

#3. Arsenal have been literally passed to death.

Jamie Redknapp

#4. In death, as so often in life, truth is stranger than fiction." Why is life more unpredictable than a football game?

Joanna Eliot

#5. Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Bill Shankly

#6. Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death ... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.

John Facenda

#7. Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

Hunter S. Thompson

#8. Uglier than death backin' outta the outhouse readin' mad magazine and crazy as a football bat.

Alan Moore

#9. you can pass a football,you can gas,but you yourself cannot just pass~cam after lilly's mother informs her that lilly has passed

Wendy Wunder

#10. Some people believe that football[soccer] is a matter of life and death. I'm very dissappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much more important than that.

Bill Shankly

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

Bill Shankly

#12. We never had anybody who froze to death playing football. You probably had somebody who died from heat stroke playing football.

Bud Grant

#13. Some people believe football (soccer) is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.

Bill Shankly

#14. Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.

Erma Bombeck

#15. If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

Eric Cantona

#16. When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team ... It's death by football.

Brendan Rodgers

#17. Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

Bill Shankly