Quotes About Football Players

#1. It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.

Khloe Kardashian

#2. Yes, high school...the land of drama queens and egocentric football players.

Hermione Daguin

#3. For some reason in today's society, people look up to football players and you have a voice. And it's because of that voice you have the opportunity to impact people's lives.

Tim Tebow

#4. When I came to Barcelona, I really liked in the dressing room that I found balanced, normal people: Valdes, Puyol, Iniesta. They don't think they are the center of the world for being football players.

Lilian Thuram

#5. Hope? The word seemed to bang from wall to wall. Hope? No, I don't think there's any hope. We're too empty here ... She touched her heart. This isn't a country at all, it's a collection of football players and Eagle Scouts. Cowards. We think we're happy. We're not. We're doomed.

James Baldwin

#6. Concussion? How the hell can they tell? They're *football* players, for chrissakes!

Dennis Miller

#7. Micheal Barrow and Darrin Smith, those guys were really intelligent. They're smart football players. They'd always be a step ahead of the offense and could predict what was coming. Dan Morgan has that. Jonathan Vilma has that. Ray Lewis has that.

Larry Coker

#8. That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex.

Johnny Weir

#9. Football players should always remember there's a whole lot more to life.

Steve Largent

#10. I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.

Rachel Nichols

#11. Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

George Archer

#12. And a bunch of the other guys on the football team would be teaching kids how to bench-press or tackle or rape or whatever it was that football players knew how to do well.

Melissa Kantor

#13. Two blue men the size of football players walking through a store wrapped in Roman gladiator armor was bound to attract attention.

Missy Lyons

#14. There's so much built-up camaraderie and sacrifice, and football is such a tough man's game. I think that's why it's so popular. That's why so many blue-collar communities and people can really feel attracted to this because it is a blue-collar struggle that football players go through.

Troy Polamalu

#15. You're convincing these big, tough football players to wear what was essentially women's lingerie. There was a little bit of a Jedi mind trick that needed to take place. The product really spoke for itself once guys felt it and touched it.

Kevin Plank

#16. Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Jim Bouton

#17. The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

Red Grange

#18. Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

Steve Sabol

#19. I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

Reggie Bush

#20. It's very hard even for a student with good academic study habits to perform well under circumstances where they are working the equivalent of a full-time job. It's incredibly stressful, especially for football players.

Gilbert M. Gaul

#21. Statistically, I'd say there are about as many gay figure skaters as there are gay football players. The majority are straight. There are just those few exceptions, and those are the ones who have gotten picked on and followed over the years.

Johnny Weir

#22. I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

Ato Boldon

#23. We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level.

Bobby Robson

#24. It is important for students to get a - to be exposed to a variety of people. Just like you want football players, you want piccolo players, you want people from all over the country and different backgrounds.

Paul Gigot

#25. Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school.

Steve Sailer

#26. People like to focus on a narrow stereotype, like if we didn't have football then we wouldn't have made it, ... The reality is, there are a lot of football players like me who came out of the middle class.

Jonathan Vilma

#27. We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.

Ato Boldon

#28. In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical.

Sidney Crosby

#29. Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

Doug Plank

#30. The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?

Daniel Finkelstein

#31. The other two weren't even dancers. They were football players. Which was ridiculous.

Nova Ren Suma

#32. The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

Ato Boldon

#33. Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

Ian Shoales

#34. As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

John Elway

#35. You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns.

Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

#36. Football players throw a 3 pound ball in the air, but cheerleaders throw a 100 pound girl in the air and catch her.

John P. Harley

#37. Those fuckers," Janice said, meaning the football players, "they get me doing hate Kegels.

William Gibson

#38. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

Terrell Owens

#39. 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

#40. Football players win football games.

Chuck Knox

#41. I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.

Gabrielle Union

#42. There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

Pete Hamill

#43. With access to the clubs, access to the strip joints. My house. My boat. We're talking about high school football players. Not anybody can just get into the clubs or strip joints. Who is going to pay for it and make it happen? That was me.

Nevin Shapiro

#44. The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

Arsene Wenger

#45. I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.

Olly Murs

#46. Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

Warren Moon

#47. What's so amazing in today's society is people look up to football players. And as a football player, you have a platform. And it's so much more important than any touchdown or trophy or anything you could win with football. Its taking that platform and be able to influence people.

Tim Tebow

#48. The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.

Pete Carroll

#49. So their cheerleaders are ugly, their football players are wimps, and they're our archrivals because why?

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#50. By high school, I was already tall - 5-foot-8 - and one day I made the mistake of wearing green tights. The football players all started calling me the Jolly Green Giant.

Rene Russo

#51. Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.

Brian Bosworth

#52. Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap.

Jerry Kramer

#53. Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business.

Paddy Chayefsky

#54. IT IS NOT COINCIDENCE THAT AT BARCELONA WE HAVE LOW-KEY LIFESTYLES AND WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL. WE KNOW WE ARE FOOTBALL PLAYERS AND NOT MOVIE STARS.

Lionel Messi

#55. Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.

Antonio Gates

#56. Football players have some bodies! Oh my goodness!

Vivica A. Fox

#57. More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

George Saunders

#58. Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are.

Simone Elkeles

#59. I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.

Peter Landesman

#60. Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools.

Steve Spurrier

#61. I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

Jackie Mason

#62. As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#63. I wanted to show them I will never give up. We have to keep together. I still believe in myself. I will never change. The players need to release the rubbish from their brains.

Paolo Di Canio

#64. AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leopards match, with the opposing goalkeeper being handcuffed and dragged away to jail by police.

David Bennun

#65. 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

#66. High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.

Antonio Gates

#67. Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.

Johan Cruijff

#68. At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

Bill Shankly

#69. If studies come out and show that playing football is detrimental to your health for the long term, even for the short term, I think that's up to the players then to make the decision about whether they're going to play or not play.

Steve Largent

#70. In Missoula, Grizzly football exists in a realm apart, where there is a pervasive sense of entitlement. University of Montana fans, coaches, players, and their lawyers expect, and often receive, special dispensation.

Jon Krakauer

#71. I see football as an art and all players are artists.
If you are a top artist, the last thing you would do is paint a picture somebody else has already painted.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#72. If you were in the Brondby dressing room right now, which of the Liverpool players would you be looking at?

Ray Stubbs

#73. We are trying to educate players to use their spare time to train for a life after football, which comes to everybody. You can lead a lot of horses to water, but you can't make them all drink.

Gordon Taylor

#74. They didn't change positions, they just moved the players around.

Terry Venables

#75. I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the reality of modern football. Big teams only want big players, big players are in big clubs, big clubs want to keep their big players.

Jose Mourinho

#76. Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

Wayne Rooney

#77. Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

Henry Rollins

#78. I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.

Ron Atkinson

#79. As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

Jeffrey Kluger

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

Dean Windass

#81. One or two of their players aren't getting any younger

Clive Tyldesley

#82. There definitely needs to be water on the sidelines for these players, but I also had some Gatorade just in case they were allergic to the water or vice versa.

John Madden

#83. NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

O.J. Simpson

#84. Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

Jim Brown

#85. Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players.

Marv Levy

#86. Systems don't win, players do.

Marv Levy

#87. I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

Pele

#88. There are things players go through on an everyday basis in the business of football. You don't see it all with the glitz and glamour of game day.

Terrell Owens

#89. 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

#90. We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time.

Johan Cruijff

#91. When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.

Johan Cruijff

#92. You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.

Alex Ferguson

#93. At the end of the day, I'm a footballer who has played at some of the biggest football clubs in the world and played with some of the best players in the world.

David Beckham

#94. In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.

Frank Lampard

#95. Defensive players kind of have that two-faced kind of way of being able to be very aggressive on the football field and going out there and getting there job done. At the same time, from my own incidents and my own personality, I'm much a person that's very likable and lovable.

Ndamukong Suh

#96. I think the way we played was as important as winning the title, the way we did it with the players and the fans enjoying it.

Manuel Pellegrini

#97. 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

#98. When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football.

Brent Musburger

#99. Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

Eric Cantona

#100. England are very light up front. Eriksson's decision not to include Jermaine Defoe can be declared an error of judgment, regardless of Rooney's situation. The Swede should have forgone one of his nine midfield players; much will have to go wrong for Jermaine Jenas to get a game.

Matt Dickinson