Top 100 Football Player Quotes
#1. I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.
Jevon Kearse
#2. It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.
Khloe Kardashian
#3. The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.
Steve Young
#4. I hope people see us not just as a football player, but also as human beings, we are not machines!
Marco Reus
#5. I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.
Mohamed Al-Fayed
#6. The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.
Alan Page
#7. As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
Luis Figo
#8. If you dont live, eat, breathe, football, then youre not a true football player. You just wear the jersey.
Sergio Ramos
#9. The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
Tom Brady
#10. Football is what you do, but it's not who you are. It's a big part of who you are. Part of who you are is you're a football player. It's your profession. It's a game you love to play. It's a game I love to play.
Andrew Luck
#11. A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones.
Richard Preston
#12. As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.
Troy Polamalu
#13. There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.
Adam Ross
#14. I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
Shaquille O'Neal
#15. 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
#16. I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.
Woody Hayes
#17. When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line.
Joe Greene
#18. 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
#19. I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.
Hines Ward
#20. I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.
Robert Griffin III
#21. If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something.
Ryan Leaf
#22. I'm definitely not a football player, but I can play one for a season.
Nikki Ziering
#23. No pro football player should die of heatstroke, any more than cholera, in this day and age if the most basic attention is paid and precautions are taken.
Sally Jenkins
#24. I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.
Victor Cruz
#26. I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out,
Paula Deen
#27. If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
Ben Carson
#28. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It's been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I've enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work.
John Madden
#29. I wish you guys would just say, 'Michael Sam, how's the football going? How's training going?' But it is what it is. And I just wish you guys would see me as Michael Sam the football player instead of Michael Sam the gay football player.
Michael Sam
#30. 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
#31. I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.
Alessandro Del Piero
#32. Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.
Zinedine Zidane
#33. Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.
Ryan McPartlin
#34. My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
Gary Kemp
#35. I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.
Tippi Hedren
#36. You know, I started this process of being a football player and I'm going to make it to the NFL very soon and I plan on finishing that. And by 'finishing that,' I mean that I'm going to go out and be the best that I can be and put everything forth to make that happen.
Robert Griffin III
#37. I don't judge my self-worth as a football player. Football is something I love. It's a fun career deal, but it's not what I want to do with my life, because I see football as a game.
Tim Tebow
#38. I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.
Darren Flutie
#39. I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
John Malkovich
#40. You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.
Woody Hayes
#41. The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.
Ricky Williams
#42. Then maybe I'll hit on this sweaty, oversexed football player. Maybe we'll have meaningful discussions about politics and philosophy while we bump 'n grind. Ugh. Yeah, right.
Kody Keplinger
#43. I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.
Herschel Walker
#44. I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.
Ricky Williams
#45. I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
Cam Newton
#46. I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.
Troy Polamalu
#47. I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.
Greg Akcelrod
#48. The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.
Shaun Alexander
#49. If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.
Jack Lambert
#50. I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.
Dwyane Wade
#51. I don't judge my success in life as a football player.
Tim Tebow
#52. I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#53. Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.
Donald Driver
#54. Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.
Sven-Goran Eriksson
#55. I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.
Dick Butkus
#56. I always say to my people, 'If you don't sell a Ferrari to a football player, you make a big present to me.' Really. Because they buy to just show off. I don't like.
Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo
#57. I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.
Michael Vick
#58. When you think of Peyton Manning, you think 'ambassador.' The game has grown exponentially during his career because of him and what he means to our game, not only as a football player but as a humanitarian.
Larry Fitzgerald
#59. I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.
Bob Dylan
#60. I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.
Ndamukong Suh
#61. I would say I'm more traditional than I am superstitious. I don't, for example, have to do things ritually before the game in order to feel comfortable going to the game. But I don't think I'm naturally a football player. I don't have that grit and that killer instinct.
Troy Polamalu
#62. My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
Ian McShane
#63. when a football player steps on a field, he should do it all. I realize a great running back doesn't like to play defense, but life isn't based on what you like. If everyone did what he liked to do, we'd be in real trouble.
Brian Curtis
#64. I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
Brett Favre
#65. I went to Brigham Young University on a football scholarship. I wasn't a football player; I was a place kicker.
Jason Chaffetz
#66. I want to improve as a football player, but even more importantly, I really want to improve as a person.
Tim Tebow
#67. Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.
Jeanne Moreau
#68. My father was an all-American football player.
Edwin Moses
#69. Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.
Ricky Williams
#70. When people say that you kind of just get - you know, just feel like a little buzzed or dazed or had your bell rung - they consider that a concussion. I wouldn't. But if that is considered a concussion, I would say any football player at least records 50 to 100 in the course of a year.
Troy Polamalu
#71. If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.
Dick Butkus
#72. I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats.
Ray Lewis
#73. I identified myself through football so when Jason Peter the football player no longer existed, Jason Peter the person was gone as well. Such a huge part of my struggle in life was finding a purpose, trying to find something else that I could be great at.
Jason Peter
#74. I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father.
Terry Crews
#75. I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.
Steve Largent
#76. Just because I'm undersized and under-this and under-that, I've still been a good football player since I was little.
Wes Welker
#77. I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.
Larry Fitzgerald
#78. Before you go anywhere, Mr. Football Player," Nita said, "I want to know exactly what your intentions are toward my Blue.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#79. There is only one, believe it or not. I did get knocked up by a baller. A big football player.
Jessica Simpson
#80. Mom was impressed but didn't want me to go overboard, which was impossible, because I was still eating a lot. I just had taken a break from eating like a professional football player.
Mindy Kaling
#81. It's grossly unfair to judge Walter Payton solely on the yards he gains. He is a complete football player, better than Jim Brown, better than O.J. Simpson.
Jim Finks
#82. I'm a football player by trade. That's what I do, ... So I did everything I could to make myself a football player again.
Tedy Bruschi
#83. He[Ted Danson] was clearly not a football player, and not only physically. He didn't bring that attitude, that mentality. At the time, there was a [Red Sox] relief pitcher named Bill Lee, the "Spaceman." He was kind of nuts, as we found out a lot of relievers are.
Shelley Long
#84. As a football player, you're really an actor. I spent all Sunday getting into character. Sunday at 10 a.m., I have to be upset with someone who didn't do anything to me. By 11 a.m. I have to be angry. And by noon, I have to be furious.
Thomas Jones
#85. Every girl who has dated a football player ... They all have sex the same way.
Kim Kardashian
#86. I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for 'Much Ado About Nothing' and thought: 'That's what I'll do when I recover.' I joined that production and was hooked.
Clark Gregg
#87. The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.
Brian Griese
#88. There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.
Tom Wopat
#89. Theres something incredible about putting a helmet on just before a game; its a feeling only a football player knows. Your vision narrows, and the whole world shrinks. You cant hear much of what goes on outside you, but you can hear yourself breathe and you can feel yourself sweat.
Carl Deuker
#90. My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
Marat Safin
#91. I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.
Esther Williams
#92. He was simply the most intelligent football player I ever saw. If I had one player to choose, out of all of them, to save my life, he'd be the one.
Bobby Charlton
#93. Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.
Tony Gonzalez
#94. Honestly, like, American football is not that big over in the U.K., so we hadn't really heard of Drew Brees before. I did know that he was, like, a massive football player. He's a massive star, so I was still a little bit anxious and nervous to meet him.
Zayn Malik
#95. I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.
Manolo Blahnik
#97. He stood more than a foot taller than I did, his shoulders like a football player's pads, arms corded thick. He was huge, I realized. Kyle had been lean and toned. Colton was ... something else. Obviously powerful. Hard. Primal.
Jasinda Wilder
#98. Bavaro's probably as tough of a - physically and mentally as tough a football player as I've ever coached. So, I would put him in the rare category there.
Bill Belichick
#99. I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.
Ricky Williams
#100. I want to be remembered as a championship football player.
Brian Urlacher
