Top 100 Football League Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.
Darren Flutie
#3. I love the game. I love to watch. I watch it with my kids. I'm able to divorce the beauty of the athletics from the corporate entity that is the National Football League.
Peter Landesman
#4. We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.
Roger Goodell
#5. As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.
Jeffrey Kluger
#6. Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?
Rush Limbaugh
#7. These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros.
Troy Vincent
#8. 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
#9. There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.
George Vecsey
#10. Some people wouldn't say I coached in the National Football League. I coached with the Raiders, right?
Jim McElwain
#11. I'm a friend in the context that we helped fight a battle together for survival of the American Football League. But I don't consider myself close to Al in recent years. You just don't continually sue your business partners like he has.
Lamar Hunt
#12. I've been fortunate and blessed to further my career in the Arena Football League, and I've had a good time doing it.
Jeff Garcia
#13. The Cincinnati Bengals look like the most complete team in the National Football League. I can't wait to see how they match up against New England.
Sterling Sharpe
#14. I shall not rest until Leeds United are kicked out of the football league. Their fans are the scum of the earth, absolute animals and a disgrace. I will do everything in my power to make sure this happens.
Ken Bates
#15. I learned how to take other people's mechanisms of promoting their stuff through me as opposed to promoting my own stuff, as far as getting Snoop DeVilles, SnoopDeGrills, Snoop Doggy Dogg biscuits, Snoop Dogg record label, Snoop Dogg bubble gum, Snoop Youth Football League.
Snoop Dogg
#16. Excluding nobody, I'm the best player in the National Football League.
Randy Moss
#17. Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
Naveen Jain
#18. The National Football league is on the wrong side of history,
Tom Cole
#19. I think success is the biggest challenge you have to handle in the National Football League; that's something we talk about a lot.
Mike McCarthy
#20. Being a part of the National Football League for so long, I've come across so many trainers and equipment managers who've allowed me to be who I am today.
Junior Seau
#21. I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.
Jim Brown
#22. The National Football League needs "a guardian, not a CEO" to deal with the fact that "the sport is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel.
Frank Deford
#23. I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.
Troy Polamalu
#24. 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
#25. And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.
Tony Dungy
#26. When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.
Lynn Swann
#27. I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge.
Jim Otto
#28. You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable.
Brian Urlacher
#29. LeSean McCoy has become the most exciting player in the National Football League. I believe he's the MVP this year.
Kurt Warner
#30. I thought Denver and Seattle was a big game but Houston and Dallas is the kind of game that as players, we want to play in. I haven't missed playing in the National Football League, but every year there are one or two games that makes me wish I could tee it up in that game one more time.
Sterling Sharpe
#31. The simplest way to win in the National Football League is to knock out the starting quarterback. You know, throughout the years, history has proven if your number one quarterback goes down, your chances for success become very limited.
Ron Jaworski
#32. When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.
Oren Lyons
#33. I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.
Warren Moon
#34. You know, I want to be the uncommon one. I think it's pretty cool that I'm only 5'11, you know, and playing in the National Football League.
Russell Wilson
#35. I'm happy with the Arena Football League right now. I'm happy in Denver.
John Elway
#36. Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.
Tony Dungy
#37. Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.
Ricky Williams
#38. We had season tickets to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League, and, as only we Canadians can say, we had prime seats right on the fifty-five-yard line. And
Martin Short
#39. You have just got to face the facts, don't you? I face it head-on. I knew what I was coming in to. I didn't make the impact I hoped for and I believed in.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
#40. Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.
Vincent Tan
#41. Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays and be productive. It's a component of leadership that is necessary. The guys that make it in the league survive that.
Mike McCarthy
#42. He came in shouting 'goal of the season' - typical Jonjo. He's got that in the locker.
Garry Monk
#43. For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world ... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.
Johan Cruijff
#44. I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.
Ian Holloway
#45. Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings.
Ian Holloway
#46. We're in the top six, we've got five points and I've told the lads we need another 80 to win the League.
Joe Kinnear
#47. 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
#48. Manchester United have risen to the pinnacle of the English game at a time when the rewards are so high - thanks to the ticket to the Champions League - that they have resources that only a handful of other sides, through merit or the exploitation of the people of Russia, can approach.
Phil Cornwell
#50. It's probably been the worst three months of my life.
Steven Gerrard
#51. The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old - maybe 35, who knows?
Jose Mourinho
#52. If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.
Graeme Souness
#53. Brendan's chihuahua doesn't do that. During the week it sleeps, eats and trains a little bit. So I have to say his chihuahua is a privileged one.
Jose Mourinho
#54. When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it.
Joe Hart
#55. I like Arsene for his principles but principles are sort of a restriction and restrictions are always lost possibilities.
Alisher Usmanov
#56. England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#57. AFC Wimbledon in the League! Talk about the ashes rising from the flames.
Stan Collymore
#58. I am not taking legal action against any team-mate.
Saido Berahino
#59. I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.
Ike Barinholtz
#60. The call to make that decision is not mine, because obviously I won't resign and I'm not a quitter.
Andre Villas-Boas
#61. We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.
David Moyes
#62. You can't get out-fought and out-desired. I don't want to see that again. I won't tolerate less than 100 percent desire. I'm their manager, not their babysitter.
Tim Sherwood
#63. I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.
Peter Shilton
#64. I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.
Alan Pardew
#66. They have a choice as a club. They don't have to sell. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change ... I don't have sympathy, no.
Brendan Rodgers
#67. Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
J. C. Watts
#68. I was on the computer the other day and typed my name into Google. Everything on there was bad. I hope in a few years there might be something there about me playing football.
Jake Friend
#69. Holland I think is the best school to learn football. I think its a great league for that because it's not the strongest league in Europe.
Rafael Van Der Vaart
#70. I don't have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once. I have only been managing for five years and I have the same amount of Champions League trophies to my name.
Jose Mourinho
#71. If you have a dad who supports Liverpool you always fucking think you can turn anything around. You know! Ever since that Champions League final.
Fredrik Backman
#72. I just want to wear my heart on my sleeve.
Tim Sherwood
#73. He's worse than Dracula because at least Dracula comes out of his coffin now and then. He seems to stay on his line and that's it.
Simon Mignolet
#74. I've seen the slip a few times. I don't have to watch something like that to go through the pain again and again and again.
Steven Gerrard
#75. Remy Cabella, I think he deserves something else than Newcastle. I wouldn't go there. You must get bored s***less in Newcastle.
Louis Nicollin
#76. As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football.
Brett Finch
#77. There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth.
Ian Holloway
#78. Who will win the League? It's a toss of a coin between three of them.
Matthew Le Tissier
#79. Chris Hughton has been sacked by Norwich. Now? With 5 games to go? Utterly bonkers!
Gary Lineker
#80. The dietician is going to get rid of that when he comes in. Although, first, we've got to get a dietician.
Ian Holloway
#81. A very good side playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to.
David Moyes
#82. How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break. They've Riise sitting on the bench who's a different class to this fella.
Johnny Giles
#83. I'm not a big power-and-strength guy, but I have a lot of balance, and I can take hits and stay on my feet. I control myself real good, shift my weight, and run real low. I do things that people haven't seen some of the running backs in the league do.
Marshall Faulk
#84. I didn't even grow up with football. I learned the rules of football on this show [The League].
Katie Aselton
#85. I want to congratulate again Mike Dean. I think his performance was unbelievable and I think when referees have unbelievable performances, I think it's fair that as managers we give them praise. So fantastic performance.
Jose Mourinho
#86. This club needs an impetus of energy - but I just feel tired to be honest. I'm worn out.
Ian Holloway
#87. The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.
Fernando Torres
#88. Arsenal are streets ahead of everyone in this league and Manchester United are up there with them.
Craig Bellamy
#89. The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side.
John Elway
#90. I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.
James Cameron
#91. In the States, there's ESPN3, and each country has different options, and other than premiere league football, there tends to be very little global content. And movie and TV rights are pretty broad content.
Reed Hastings
#92. Biggest lesson I learned my first year in the NFL is no one gives a crap about what you did last week. This league is about what have you done for me now. That's the NFL. It's also our culture. So you keep working hard because that's the biggest truth about football.
Andrew Luck
#96. Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league.
Brendan Rodgers
#97. I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark.
Ian Holloway
#98. We will go back to playing like Manchester United.
Ryan Giggs
#99. I would like to thank the United staff for making me feel so welcome and part of the United family from my first day. And of course thank you to those fans who have supported me throughout the season.
David Moyes
#100. Next year we have to be even better. If we want to be a big club this has to be one of many.
Vincent Kompany
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