Top 100 Quotes About Football Games
#1. When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong.
Joe Paterno
#2. All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.
Duffy Daugherty
#3. It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.
Joe Montana
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Fourth quarter field goals often wins games; first quarter field goals often lose them.
R.A. Mathis
#7. There was nothing wrong with the performance, apart from throwing away the game.
Glenn Hoddle
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. To be second with one game to go - you can't ask for more.
Stuart McCall
#19. There's never a lot of Brazillian football played in these games.
Gareth Barry
#20. 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.
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. When Paul Brown talked contract, the championship game was part of it. We took the championship game for granted.
Otto Graham
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.
Sepp Herberger
#31. There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.
Bobby Robson
#32. 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
#33. Supporters have every divine right to slag your players off when they're not winning games.
Dean Windass
#34. I can't believe anyone can have played the game of football as well as Messi.
Michael Owen
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Sure, football is a silly game. But have you seen what else is on television?
Pliny The Elder
#44. The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts.
Dennis Miller
#45. 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
#46. Did she go to Washington Redskins football games, or follow the Nats baseball team?
Ken Follett
#47. I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.
Merlin Olsen
#48. 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
#49. I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.
Madison Pettis
#50. I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game.
Terrell Owens
#51. 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
#52. I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
Emmanuel Jal
#53. Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.
Erma Bombeck
#54. 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
#55. Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.
Chuck Bednarik
#56. 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
#57. To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
E.F. Benson
#58. I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.
Bobby Layne
#59. There's never been a greater game than football.
Joe Paterno
#60. Manchester United are substituting Blomqvist for Giggs just to bring more legs into the game.
Tony Gale
#61. If you look at the world-class performers at the top of the game, their numbers are just exceptional and that is the level he is at.
Brendan Rodgers
#62. I thought I did until I looked at some old game films. (When asked if he played college football)
Bum Phillips
#63. Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.
Alessandro Del Piero
#64. Football is a game that fascinates people around the World like nothing else.
Berti Vogts
#65. I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked.
Richard M. Nixon
#66. No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game.
Woody Allen
#67. Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.
Arnold J. Mandell
#68. I do like to just have football on, so I will TiVo, like, three or four games for the weekend, and I'll just turn it on when there's no live football on, just to have the background noise.
Christopher Gorham
#69. I took my bag, and the suitcase of clothes, and I took the thing he wanted most - a little boy, maybe, as yet unmade; a sturdy little runaround fella, for sitting on his shoulders, and video games down the arcade, and football in the park.
Anne Enright
#70. Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.
Bo Jackson
#71. Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#72. Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan.
Katherine Tate
#74. I can't keep protecting people who don't want to run about and train, who are about three stone overweight. What am I supposed to keep saying? 'Keep getting your 60, 70 grand a week but don't train'? What's the game coming to?
Harry Redknapp
#75. It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn
Walt Disney
#76. He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.
Franz Beckenbauer
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. Now Manchester United are 2-1 down on aggregate, they are in a better position than when they started the game at 1-1.
Ron Atkinson
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.
Steven Chu
#85. It is more likely that coaches have players go down in games they are losing than games they are winning.
George M. Gilbert
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. If [the Packers] can protect Aaron Rodgers and allow him to throw the ball down the field this game will not even be a contest. But if they do not, and Minnesota can come in here and run the football, we are going to have ourselves a good game tonight.
Marshall Faulk
#90. Right now Von Miller is the best pass rusher in the world. He looks exactly like Derrick Thomas did in his heyday. He can absolutely destroy a football game.
Jon Gruden
#91. For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.
Eamon De Valera
#92. The war seemed as far away as the football games of someone else's college.
Ernest Hemingway,
#93. 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
#94. One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.
Chuck Todd
#95. Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
Bill Shankly
#96. I mean, I'm not a sexist person, but a woman has no business being down there trying to make some comment about a football game.
Andy Rooney
#97. 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
#98. As a fan, you want to be able to go to a football game, you want to feel secure, you want to be able to just watch the game, root for your team, and that's the way it should be.
Jerry Rice
#99. 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
#100. Celtic have scored in the 50th consecutive game in which they've managed to score
Barry Davies
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