Quotes About Football Safety

#1. Obviously I wanted to be a bus driver - and I still do. If only I could get a part time job.

Jerry Springer

#2. I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.

Gabriel Luna

#3. Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.

Alice Dreger

#4. Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at this to see if there is any way to improve safety. We need to set some standards, because the ones now are not protecting players to the highest level.

G. K. Butterfield

#5. Sometimes I struggled to say something meaningful only to learn that silence is just as powerful as words.

Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

#6. What once was had, forever lost; thy fate is destined, thy love star-crossed.

Nenia Campbell

#7. Success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it's how smoothly we cope with Plan B.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#8. NASCAR stepped up their safety concepts, and I think the drivers feel NASCAR is doing everything that can be done. So we are a little behind NASCAR in that respect. Someone in NASCAR realized there were certain things that could be done to make it safer. The same thing has to happen in football.

Jim Brown

#9. It looks like they've been watching old Japan tapes!

CM Punk

#10. Men are, if nothing else, predictable. Fortunately for us all, women are not.

Karen Hawkins

#11. Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.

Ronnie Lott

#12. Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

Ayn Rand

#13. 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

#14. In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.

James Arthur Ray

#15. Since I'm not focusing on my speed as much now as I was heading into the combine, I'm really focusing on my position work, trying to perfect how I play the safety position. I've been doing a lot of backpedaling and drills that focus on turning my hips, which help me out on the football field.

Calvin Pryor

#16. Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.

A.D. Posey

#17. Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

Christian Kane

#18. If kids stay up late, it's very bad for their brain development ... they said that on TV ... You want to become a stupid girl, Yuuki?

Matsuri Hino