Quotes About Football Loss

#1. It's certainly a loss for us here at the University of Washington, because Jeff Compher has been a wonderful friend and administrator. Jeff is a football man first, but he has the compassion and desire to make all of Northern Illinois' programs successful. He's one heck of a guy.

Tyrone Willingham

#2. If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.

Tommy Prothro

#4. As you understand the game of football, you understand that it is about wins and losses.

Tyrone Willingham

#5. College football would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss of humanity.

H.L. Mencken

#6. To recount these histories is like unravelling a thread: one means only to tell one little part, but then another comes in, and another, for they are all part of the same garment - Tudor, Lancaster, York, Plantagenet.

Margaret George

#7. As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football.

Ian Mortimer

#8. The eternally sleeping princess, thinks Cam. But I shall free you from those poisoned brambles that surround your heart. And then you will have no choice but to love me.

Neal Shusterman

#9. The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.

Arthur Miller

#10. There's no "I" on the football field. We have a total commitment to each other when we're out there. There is no doubt. It doesn't matter. The wins and losses of the game don't resonate with us. What resonates with us is "how much effort would you give for the man next to you."

Ray Lewis

#11. I feel fragile, like if somebody looked at me the wrong way I might shatter into a million pieces and never be whole again.

Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

#12. Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.

Chris Spielman

#13. The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.

Steve Young

#14. I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

Laura Dern

#15. College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.

H.L. Mencken

#16. As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Corso's would say, I CAN'T READ, BUT I CAN THROW A FOOTBALL. Mr. Shunk's would read, I WISH I COULD TOSS YOU ALL ON AN ISLAND BY YOURSELVES. Dad's would read, I HATE MYSELF FOR NO GOOD REASON.

My Idea grows.

A.S. King

#17. All men are body conscious. If they say they're not, they're lying.

Gilles Marini

#18. Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!

Amy Ray

#19. The problem at Wimbledon seems to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency.

Joe Kinnear

#20. Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

Charles Dudley Warner

#21. 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

#22. I had fewer female clients. I don't know why. It was always the men who chose me. And the ones whose secrets I had to hold. I represented Sophia Loren. She was jailed in Caserta for 17 days.

Giovanna Cau

#23. You can park your snark at the gate, Omaha.

Rainbow Rowell