Quotes About American Football

#1. American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

Sue Lawley

#2. [American football] fanbase resemble that of contemporary boxing: rich people watching poor people play a game they would never play themselves.

Chuck Klosterman

#3. And the reason you play American Football, Hiruma-san?"
"Because it's fun."
(Translated)

Riichiro Inagaki

#4. I'm an ardent American Football fan.

Don King

#5. I'm a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

Alexander Hanson

#6. 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

#7. Anybody who knows me knows I'm passionate about American football. I gave this game everything I had. In college, that's what I looked to do. Everything. Everything for so long, and all you hear growing up is that hard work pays off, hard work pays off, hard work pays off.

La'el Collins

#8. American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

David Mamet

#9. When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.

Abby Wambach

#10. 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

#11. Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes ... Do they need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.

Michael Wilbon

#12. I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

Carlos Slim

#13. I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

Jim Jarmusch

#14. My father was an all-American football player.

Edwin Moses

#15. Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move - you don't interrupt.

Franz Beckenbauer

#16. I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

Sting

#17. I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.

Chad Harbach

#18. One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.

Tim Tebow

#19. The number of fighters that are ISIS fighters wouldn't fill up most American football stadiums. This is not a large group of individuals, but they're tenacious, and they rule with absolute terror.

James Lankford

#20. Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

Thierry Henry

#21. I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.

Andrew Luck

#22. It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.

Mal Peet

#23. In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.

Kevin McKidd

#24. American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.

Noel Gallagher

#25. And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

Parminder Nagra

#26. The Frankfurt Galaxy( The NFL Europe team) always had tremendous success, at that time there were 2,000 American football clubs in Europe playing the game from juniors through to adults.

Bill Peterson

#27. I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

Gabriel Luna

#28. I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

Wally Schirra

#29. While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.

Gabriel Luna

#30. 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

#31. You can go super American and get barbecue and beer and be like, 'Whatever, I'm watching a football game.' That's exactly what I'm going to do.

Emily Ratajkowski

#32. Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

Thomas A. Edison

#33. Football is American; why are the Romans numering our bowls?!

Stephen Colbert

#34. 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

#35. I'm a light eater. As soon as it's light, I start to eat.

Art Donovan

#36. This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.

Kevin Kelly

#37. What cooler way to grow up for an American boy than to be around cars and football?

William Clay Ford Jr.

#38. There are many reasons why I hate college football. The 4-hour games drone on longer than Steve Lyons during the American League playoffs. The ever-expanding season threatens to creep into early July. Boise, Idaho, hosts a bowl game. And it's played on blue artificial turf.

Stephen Rodrick

#39. People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.

Pete Rozelle

#40. I grew up playing football since the day I could walk; some of my greatest memories of childhood are playing touch football in all kinds of weather with my best friends. That's a part of the American experience that no corporation can destroy.

Greg Graffin

#41. As she reached for the plates, she wondered if her life could get any weirder. Her life savings had been handed over to a band of South American guerrillas, she had a phony engagement to a famous football player, she was homeless and jobless, and she was making breakfast for Mad Jack Patriot.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#42. He's an American, qualified to play for Wales because he has a Welsh grandmother, who was on the bench against Switzerland.

Guy Mowbray

#43. The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

Joe Montana

#44. Fantasy football is actually an amazing American pastime, because it takes the ultimate team sport, NFL and football, and turns it into the quest for individual achievement.

Jeff Schaffer

#45. It didn't matter whether "football" for you was soccer or the American sport played by men in helmets.

Neal Stephenson

#46. Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George F. Will

#47. Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

Barry Sanders

#48. There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.

Dean Cain

#49. I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

Peter Robinson

#50. Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

Froma Harrop

#51. College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.

Noel Gallagher

#52. Are we really celebrating the troops, or are we exploiting them? Using them to make football and the NFL seem as patriotic, as all-American as the troops who actually fight and die for us?

Johnny Anonymous

#53. One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.

Quentin Tarantino

#54. You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

Harrison Ford

#55. The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

Deacon Jones

#56. I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.

Frank Deford

#57. I'm Canadian. The only difference between dating American and Canadian guys is whether you'll be watching football or hockey. I have no preference.

Serinda Swan