Quotes About Football Games

#1. When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong.

Joe Paterno

#2. People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!

Sophia Bush

#3. Are you going to take Sang to the football games, Dakota? It'd make a nice date."
( ... ) "Holy shit," Gabriel said. "The first time Sang gets asked out and it's by Kota's mother.

C.L.Stone

#4. When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.

Bobby Flay

#5. The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access TV station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.

Louis C.K.

#6. Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher.

Daniel J. Evans

#7. If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

Paul Bryant

#8. Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

George Lucas

#9. Right now I don't want to think about Ali's future, the football games and parties she'll be going to without me, the people she'll meet that I won't even know. There's a

Laura Day

#10. Did she go to Washington Redskins football games, or follow the Nats baseball team?

Ken Follett

#11. I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

Merlin Olsen

#12. I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.

Madison Pettis

#13. Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

Erma Bombeck

#14. I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.

John Legend

#15. Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

Faith Hill

#16. I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.

Samantha Isler

#17. I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all.

Raven-Symone

#18. I don't think people can watch University of Texas basketball or football games with me - really, anything Texas is playing - without wanting to punch me in the face. I'm as big a Longhorn fan as you'll find.

Jordan Spieth

#19. Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games.

Solange Knowles

#20. All over America, churchgoers chafe at a Sunday morning service that runs an hour and ten minutes, but have no problem with three-hour football games on television.

Jim Cymbala

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

Ernest Hemingway,

#22. I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

Taylor Phinney

#23. I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.

Randy Pausch

#24. Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.

Garry Wills

#25. If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Erma Bombeck

#26. Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

Darrell Royal

#27. The bottom line is winning. I want to do what we need to do to win football games.

Mike Singletary

#28. J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston's newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.

Hannah Storm

#29. 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

#30. We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games.

Louise Erickson

#31. I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.

Eli Manning

#32. I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

Bear Bryant

#33. Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.

Joyce Brothers

#34. I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.

Brie Larson

#35. I don't get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What's the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football.

Maddox

#36. More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.

Stephen Rodrick

#37. I want to win football games.

Victor Cruz

#38. I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.

Woody Hayes

#39. The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.

Dan Jenkins

#40. I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.

Bud Selig

#41. If you're dating the quarterback and then you go out with the hockey player, you just go to the hockey games. I don't think I'll still go to the football games.

Nicolle Wallace

#42. Football players win football games.

Chuck Knox

#43. Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.

Bear Bryant

#44. I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.

David Gallagher

#45. At football games the other students would cheer the star black running back, and then when a black player on the other team got the ball, they'd yell, "Kill that nigger! Kill that nigger!" They would yell this sitting right next to her, as though she really were not there.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#46. If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question.

Cris Collinsworth

#47. If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.

Bobby Bowden

#48. I live in Beverly Hills and I'm proud of it. The only things I miss are pie and mash shops and football games. I've lived in America longer than I lived in England. When I first got here, it just felt right to me. I like the open space, and the weather's great.

Steve Jones

#49. Can't you just see it? Can't you see us with gray hair, sitting at those late night football games. I'll be the dad with one eye on my football playing sons, and the other on our daughter, who if she looks anything like you, I will need to carry a gun to fight off all of those horny teenage boys.

Jennifer Foor

#50. In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

Mark Duffy

#51. It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.

Sherry Turkle

#52. You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

Jack Kemp

#53. I did all kinds of things as a young person to try to make money. I had a chicken operation - I sold chickens. I can remember going to high school football games as a ten-year-old and gathering Coca-Cola bottles, 'cause you'd turn them in and get a nickel. I wanted not to remain idle.

Charles Schwab

#54. I'm really only capable to two emotions at this point: lust and hunger. I lost revenge a few years back, and even then, it was reserved only for ex-girlfriends and particular football games that caused me to lose a lot of money.

Jason Mulgrew

#55. As a football team, you head into the season the same way with confidence and a positive mindset that you are going to win a bunch of football games.

Matthew Stafford

#56. I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships.

Ben Roethlisberger

#57. My favorite memory from school was going to football games with my friends. We always had so much spirit and dressed up to go to the games, even though our team was pretty bad.

Erin Heatherton

#58. While I'm more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance.

Marcus Samuelsson

#59. All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

Duffy Daugherty

#60. It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.

Joe Montana

#61. My father never did any of the things that my friends' fathers did with them. We never tossed a football around or even watched games together. He would always say, "I don't have time - maybe later," but he always had time to sit around and get drunk.

Susan Forward

#62. Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'

Lawrence Taylor

#63. Fourth quarter field goals often wins games; first quarter field goals often lose them.

R.A. Mathis

#64. There was nothing wrong with the performance, apart from throwing away the game.

Glenn Hoddle

#65. It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.

Tony Dungy

#66. Games were moved to New Year's Eve as part of a plan by college football executives where they want to create a tradition of watching football on New Year's Eve.

Audie Cornish

#67. I'm very honest and I know where I am. If you look at the table and the games we have got left to win, we need a miracle.

Gus Poyet

#68. Sean's our boy, big into computer games and football, wants to help the Redskins build a dynasty, though he doesn't really know what that means.

Catherine Coulter

#69. Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are
retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

Edward Abbey

#70. After the game, I'm a completely different person. I drink some beers with friends and try to get my mind completely off football.

Jeremy Shockey

#71. 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

#72. To be second with one game to go - you can't ask for more.

Stuart McCall

#73. There's never a lot of Brazillian football played in these games.

Gareth Barry

#74. For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.

Rio Ferdinand

#75. I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#76. Football is not played on paper, it is played on a pitch. This game is not mathematics and in football, two plus two very rarely equals four - it's usually three or five.

Leo Beenhakker

#77. China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the game is concerned. Football in the future will get faster and faster.

Berti Vogts

#78. 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

#79. When Paul Brown talked contract, the championship game was part of it. We took the championship game for granted.

Otto Graham

#80. In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.

Vince Lombardi

#81. The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

Sepp Herberger

#82. There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.

Bobby Robson

#83. Supporters have every divine right to slag your players off when they're not winning games.

Dean Windass

#84. I can't believe anyone can have played the game of football as well as Messi.

Michael Owen

#85. I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest - If you can't take it, you shouldn't play!

Jack Lambert

#86. I'm not sure (whether Demetriou did anything wrong). I wouldn't have thought so ... but I'm not the ACC (Australian Crime Commission), I'm not ASADA. I'm a football coach trying to coach a game.

James Hird

#87. I don't actually go to a lot of games because I think football on TV is better. Even though I'm pretty busy, I watch 90 percent of Ohio State's games.

John Legend

#88. Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.

Bud Grant

#89. Football is one of those games that definitely relates to life in a lot of ways. Everything can be going good, and just like that, you have a turnover. Things are going south, you're going the opposite direction. How are you going to recover from it? That's the beauty in this game.

Torrey Smith

#90. I don't feel like I'm getting older. I think it's the way I've looked after myself. I take my football seriously. I love scoring goals and I get a good feeling from it, so I'll do whatever it takes to be fit and feel good in games.

Jermain Defoe

#91. I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.

John Madden

#92. Sure, football is a silly game. But have you seen what else is on television?

Pliny The Elder

#93. The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts.

Dennis Miller

#94. I have a soft side that I like people to see. I'm not mean. That's just football. That's just the way you've got to go. You can't go into a game that is that violent and be soft. You can't be that way.

Brandon Jacobs

#95. I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it.

Lionel Messi

#96. I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game.

Terrell Owens

#97. We all understand what we signed up for, but then again, you don't want this to be a game that puts people in wheelchairs at age 40.

Drew Brees

#98. I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

Emmanuel Jal

#99. So it would be a good thing for Chinese parents to instill enthusiasm among their kids for football. It's a great game, not only regarding the emotions behind it, but it's also a game for young people to gain experience of working in a bigger group and work to achieve goals.

Berti Vogts

#100. Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.

Chuck Bednarik