Football Field Sayings

#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. You can run on a football field but you can't hide out there.

Sam Huff

#3. I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

Ricky Williams

#4. I'm taking T.O., every day ... He gives me the whole football field.

Michael Irvin

#5. This is the outer surface of the brain where much of our thinking is done. Unfolded, this surface layer would cover the area of a football field

James Tagg

#6. Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I added five years to his career, and I just think we complimented each other very well and were able to do some amazing things out on the football field.

Jerry Rice

#7. That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.

Jamal Lewis

#8. There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.

Deacon Jones

#9. Shevchenko is the best attacker in Europe. He has a great deal of consistency and he just keeps scoring - which in Italian football is very difficult. He is a complete player, someone who can do everything on a football field

Andriy Shevchenko

#10. I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

Roy Clark

#11. To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't judge a person's character by what they do between the lines. Judge a man by what he does off the field, what he does for his community, what he does for his family.

Richard Sherman

#12. What we shared and what we were able to accomplish on the football field was something unbelievable.

Emmitt Smith

#13. Defensive players kind of have that two-faced kind of way of being able to be very aggressive on the football field and going out there and getting there job done. At the same time, from my own incidents and my own personality, I'm much a person that's very likable and lovable.

Ndamukong Suh

#14. The ISS moves so quickly that if you fired a rifle bullet from one end of a football field,7 the International Space Station could cross the length of the field before the bullet traveled 10 yards.8

Randall Munroe

#15. Neither my sexuality or my efforts or lack of effort on the football field make up the whole sum of me.

Sean Kennedy

#16. 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

#17. We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff.'

Michael Morpurgo

#18. The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor.

Michael Irvin

#19. No matter what happens on the football field it doesn't change the kind of person I am.

Kurt Warner

#20. When you go out on a football field, you are responsible for taking care of yourself. The more rules you get, the less players truly take care of themselves.

Jim Brown

#21. To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

E.F. Benson

#22. I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

Pat McAfee

#23. If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game ... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

Stanley Rous

#24. I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety.

Cory Booker

#25. All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.

Bobby Bowden

#26. There's just a big, empty football field that's supposed to be filled with monsters that I haven't even thought of.

Rob Letterman

#27. In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

Theodore Roosevelt

#28. You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

Criss Jami

#29. Without fans who pay at the turnstile, football is nothing. Sometimes we are inclined to forget that. The only chance of bringing them into stadiums is if they are entertained by what happens on the football field.

Jock Stein

#30. Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis.

Tim Green

#31. Since I'm not focusing on my speed as much now as I was heading into the combine, I'm really focusing on my position work, trying to perfect how I play the safety position. I've been doing a lot of backpedaling and drills that focus on turning my hips, which help me out on the football field.

Calvin Pryor

#32. It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him. I felt such an honor to be associated with such a player.

Alex Ferguson

#33. The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#34. I think any football is a guy that is able to one, be able to be humble and hungry off the field, but at the same time on the football field understand what they have to get done and be a little bit ferocious.

Ndamukong Suh

#35. You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

Emerson Fittipaldi

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

Bo Jackson

#37. The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.

Wim Crouwel

#38. Bridget felt like she'd been sucked into a game of Clue. Delaney did it. In the football field. With an iron bar. Again, she had to force the words to die on her tongue.

Samantha Blake

#39. I played the game for 20 years, and I think that kept me on the football field, being adjusted. Getting hit so many times, being all out of whack, and going in to see my chiropractor kept me back on the football field.

Jerry Rice

#40. You made it something special. Most of all, I want to thank the fans for your support not through the great times that we shared on the football field, but for the last 17 years of my life. You have supported me through all times.

Michael Irvin

#41. On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out.

Kurt Warner

#42. To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

Theodore Roosevelt

#43. There's a window in my life which is football. I try to remember that it's not going to be there forever. That's why staying humble is important; knowing who I am and the message I'm sending out. I always try to be a person first, before I'm No. 55 on the football field.

Junior Seau

#44. Sometimes on the basketball court or on the football field, you enter this place called 'The Zone.' You're not supposed to acknowledge when you're in 'The Zone,' but when you are, you simply cannot be stopped.

Victor Cruz

#45. Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.

Robert Griffin III

#46. When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

Tom Brady

#47. In her nervous system and she can't get up and her face is like an inch from the football-field

John Green

#48. When the iPhone was first announced, CEO Steve Jobs spewed enough BS to cover a football field full of babies 3 feet deep in bullshit, which sounds cool because he could have potentially murdered a football field full of babies, but he passed on this opportunity by introducing the phone instead.

Maddox

#49. My thing is, and I've always been this way - to get to know as many people as I possibly can on a personal level, so that way, when you get on the football field, you've got your buddy right beside you, and you're ready to go.

Russell Wilson

#50. Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.

Mike McCarthy

#51. A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

Lewis H. Lapham

#52. On the football field, you're still going out to there to win. And if you're not going out there to win, what are you going out there for?

Richard Sherman

#53. Asking for help didn't bother him. He'd learned team-playing on the football field. It didn't matter who scored any one point; everyone worked together to make the team win.

Anonymous

#54. Colt was a big guy and there was a lot to see, all of it good. He'd need to walk down a football field for you to have time to get it all in.

Kristen Ashley

#55. Ok. So the yard is here."
"It's a football field. Don't call it a yard."
"Grass where people sit and hang out is a yard."
"We stole things here, but that doesn't make it a bank.

Daniel Handler

#56. There's no "I" on the football field. We have a total commitment to each other when we're out there. There is no doubt. It doesn't matter. The wins and losses of the game don't resonate with us. What resonates with us is "how much effort would you give for the man next to you."

Ray Lewis

#57. A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#58. The best art on a football field usually happens during kickoff returns.

Kevin Sampsell

#59. I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.

Drew Brees

#60. What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.

Arthur Hopcraft

#61. And there's only two times I like to sweat, on the football field or during sex.

Mercy Celeste

#62. I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life.

Ben Roethlisberger

#63. I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

David Storey

#64. My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field.

Snoop Dogg

#65. To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

Jerry Rice

#66. It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

Warren Moon

#67. It's brutal out on the football field.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#68. What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.

Michael Vick

#69. To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it.
On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina.
Waiting for her.

Sarah Addison Allen

#70. It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

Dan Ariely

#71. Fourth quarter field goals often wins games; first quarter field goals often lose them.

R.A. Mathis

#72. The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access TV station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.

Louis C.K.

#73. 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

#74. To be efficient with the football in practice and on the game field obviously is the most important thing, but be efficient with the football, make smart decisions, be great on third downs, be great in the red zone, when the game's on the line in the fourth quarter - that's what I love.

Russell Wilson

#75. Though the legs of a football coach are never so active on the field of play during playing time, his mind is the best or worse player on the pitch!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#76. 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

#77. There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.

Brett Favre

#78. God bless those runners because they get you the first down, give you ball control and keep your defense off the field. But if you want to ring the cash register, you have to pass.

Sid Gillman

#79. I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field.

Eric Dickerson

#80. In football, you're taught to react by being aggressive, taught to react with violence. If you can't separate that on the field and off the field, you're going to be in a lot of trouble in your life.

Troy Polamalu

#81. 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

#82. To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

John Madden

#83. When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'

Richard Seymour

#84. You don't like to see your guys take the field without you because it makes you feel like, man, maybe they really don't need me out there, which is kind of humbling.

Tom Brady

#85. I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.

Adrian Peterson

#86. I think part of what people are responding to with Lambeau Field is that it's a solid culture. There's so much committed to what hockey means and that's how we feel about football. It's just a great connection between the culture of football and the culture of hockey.

Jon Jones

#87. Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Jim Bouton

#88. Doping in English football is restricted to lager and baked beans with sausages. After which the players take to the field, belching and farting. English football culture is one of pure, intense competition, and that's why I have always preferred it to Italy.

Paolo Di Canio

#89. There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.

Cam Newton

#90. First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.

Tom Landry

#91. Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

Martin Jacques

#92. I guess I'm a fun-loving teddy bear. I've got two sides to me. Obviously, there's the football side that a lot of people see - the mean, ferocious, coming-after-the-quarterback guy. But off the field, I'm a calm, cool, collected guy.

Ndamukong Suh

#93. The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

Shaun Alexander

#94. If [the Packers] can protect Aaron Rodgers and allow him to throw the ball down the field this game will not even be a contest. But if they do not, and Minnesota can come in here and run the football, we are going to have ourselves a good game tonight.

Marshall Faulk

#95. I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.

Randy Pausch

#96. This group right here is one of the most underrated groups in football. We don't talk enough about this group. Very smart, they don't leave the field, they play every single down, and they can cover backs and tight ends out of the backfield. This group is special.

Willie McGinest

#97. The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

Darrell Royal

#98. Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

Lynn Swann

#99. Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

John Steinbeck

#100. Of course, I was a head coach at high school for 15 years, so as far as on the field stuff it's the same but for college football it's off the field experience you got to get used to. It was a great learning experience for me, I learned a lot and I feel very prepared coming in here.

Gus Malzahn