Football War Quotes

#1. Bobby Tom told me he's not afraid of the Chargers' defense."
"Bobby Tom'll tell you he's not afraid of nuclear war, so I wouldn't put too much stock in his opinion.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#2. Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food.

Richard Corliss

#3. Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

Robert Downey Jr.

#4. Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.

Sven-Goran Eriksson

#5. The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.

Bob Ainsworth

#6. Maybe creatures that are not like each other are supposed to hurt each other to find out which one is stronger, so that the stronger one can take the things it wants. A competition. A game. War! Sex! Football!

Isaac Marion

#7. What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know.

Harry Redknapp

#8. Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.'

Jose Mourinho

#9. This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)

Marv Levy

#10. International football is the continuation of war by other means.

George Orwell

#11. If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

Arsene Wenger

#12. It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.

Jose Mourinho

#13. Matthew had won this battle - a battle in a war marked no more by yards on an open field, but by scars unseen.

Steve V. Cypert

#14. With civilized men ... , it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious.

Bertrand Russell

#15. My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football ... Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.

Camille Paglia

#16. Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself.

Ralph Wiley

#17. Football is like war. It's about taking territory.

Condoleezza Rice

#18. The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.

Steve Sabol

#19. Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don't want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.

Jose Mourinho

#20. Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it's easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.

Daniel Rodriguez

#21. One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#22. Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind

Roy Keane

#23. Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they're black or white, much as soldiers do.

Oliver Stone

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

Paul Rieckhoff

#25. All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war)

Otto Graham

#26. Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

Rinus Michels

#27. The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'

Alex Kapranos

#28. [Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell

#29. When a German soldier is running at you, there's no point quoting Virgil at him, you're better off kicking a football in his face.

Cesca Major

#30. 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

#31. Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

Jane Lynch

#32. If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.

John Curtin

#33. The war seemed as far away as the football games of someone else's college.

Ernest Hemingway,

#34. Bullets an stuff be flying all over. It is something I simply cannot understand - why in hell is we doing all this, anyway? Playing football is one thing. But this, I do not know why. Goddamn.

Winston Groom

#35. Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what's inside someone until he's tested.

Daniel Rodriguez

#36. 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

#37. The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.

Jonathan Raymond

#38. 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

#39. I was into her and it was creating some kind of war inside me. A war between the guy I was and the guy everyone wanted me to be. It never used to be a competition. I was happy to be that guy. The player, the football star, the charmer. I was those things. But I was more.

Cambria Hebert