Football Season Over Quotes

#1. SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.

Joe Paterno

#2. We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it's over it's over and you do in the next one as well as you can. Plenty of managers who have won the Champions League will not be considered great managers.

Arsene Wenger

#3. I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. 'You're in theater but you can play football?'

Dennis Haysbert

#4. I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

LeBron James

#5. Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.

Megan McCafferty

#6. The coaches will offer a direction, a plan, routine, discipline and the players must develop the desire to work together accepting their roles as they learn in preparation for the season.

George M. Gilbert

#7. In the normal process of evaluating the end of the season, I meet with key executives for thorough discussions and evaluations of all aspects of football operations.

Jeffrey Lurie

#8. 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

#9. For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

Marcus Samuelsson

#10. It's football season; anything can happen.

Troy Brown

#11. I still don't think it's sunk in that I won the Heisman. I'll be able to reflect back on the season, appreciate those types of things and realize that although I wanted to 'be like Mike' when I was growing up, now I get to go out and be in the NFL.

Robert Griffin III

#12. Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

Troy Aikman

#13. There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both.

James Reston Jr.

#14. Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.

Bennett Cerf

#15. I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous pre-season training - something I've not previously experienced. And I knocked local football on the head this winter, simply to ensure I didn't pick up any injuries.

James Hibberd

#16. It's important for people to know that I'm still focused on football ... I'm handling my business to get ready for the next season.

Colin Kaepernick

#17. If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.

Keyshawn Johnson

#18. I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.

Kate Mara

#19. Michael Owen will get double figures this season - or at least 10, possibly more.

Garth Crooks

#20. There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

Darius Rucker

#21. I made no secret of the fact I'd love to stay in football and to do that, you need badges. I'm starting them and that's the next step for me - to continue this next season.

Alan Shearer

#22. I get excited when fantasy football season's coming. This guy gets excited when war season's coming.

Paul Rieckhoff

#23. Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!

Bill Parcells

#24. I'm definitely not a football player, but I can play one for a season.

Nikki Ziering

#25. Thank you ... preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.

Jimmy Fallon

#26. These two clubs had a monopoly of the domestic honours last season.

Tony Gubba

#27. 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

#28. Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.

Bill Shankly

#29. You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.

Tony Dungy

#30. Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.

Bobby Robson

#31. He came in shouting 'goal of the season' - typical Jonjo. He's got that in the locker.

Garry Monk

#32. How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we have a chance to have a good football team. I don't have any health problems. I don't know how any of the stuff gets started ... My health is very good.

LaVell Edwards