Top 89 Quotes About High School Football
#1. I also played two years of high school football but I wasn't very, how shall I say it, talented.
Kyle Chandler
#2. Permian had established itself as perhaps the most successful football dynasty in the country - pro, college, or high school. Few brands of sport were more competitive than Class AAAAA Texas high school football, the division for the biggest schools in the state.
H. G. Bissinger
#3. 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
#4. Their high school football is some of the best in the country.
Sylvester Croom
#5. Coaching is like riding a roller coaster with many ups and downs. The true test is weathering the storm. The average length of time anywhere in America that a man is a head high school football coach is three years.
George M. Gilbert
#6. 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
#7. Both of my sons used to coach high school football. When they started, I'd say things I shouldn't have. So I learned my lesson.
John Madden
#8. 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
#9. I was pretty much seen as a basketball player coming out of high school. Football was my second love, but luckily, I turned out to be pretty good. Something just drew me to football; besides, I ended up being too short for my position in basketball.
Justin Tuck
#10. William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#11. They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.
John Madden
#12. I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.
Jimmy Breslin
#13. Louisiana has a heritage of great players that play their high school football within the boundaries of Louisiana.
Les Miles
#14. High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.
Antonio Gates
#15. These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros.
Troy Vincent
#16. If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.
J. R. Martinez
#17. I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.
Kyle Chandler
#18. 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
#19. I really enjoyed high-school football, but I didn't really enjoy college football. I liked to play the games, but I didn't like the practice. In baseball, I enjoy the practice almost as much as the games.
Todd Helton
#20. In high school football, the coach kept me on the bench all year. On the last game of the season, the crowd was yelling, We want Youngman! We want Youngman! The coach says, Youngman - go see what they want!
Henny Youngman
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Drew Houston
#22. The politics at Max's were very similar to high school, except the popular people were not the cheerleaders or football heroes and the prom queen would most certainly e a he, dressed as a she, knowing more about being a she than most she's.
Patti Smith
#23. I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.
Red Grange
#24. Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.
Trevor Bayne
#25. I've often told people that the greatness of this football program will emerge when The Streak ends. I hope you will all live up to that. It's all numbers. It's nothing. It's not what we're about. It's not what this school represents." -Coach Frank Allocco
Neil Hayes
#26. I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.
Bobby Sherman
#27. Understatement has become part of the tradition. A proposal to build a history room to house the football team's memorabilia was immediately shelved when many former players complained. What makes this program so special is what you carry in your heart, they argued, not what you hang on the wall.
Neil Hayes
#28. When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.
Mike Krzyzewski
#29. I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.
Danny Pudi
#30. When I was in high school, my mom hated football. But then, the more I played, the more it grew on her. This game has done a lot for my family - not just from a financial standpoint, but it also helped bring my family together.
Nick Ferguson
#31. I played football growing up in junior high and high school.
Ryan Merriman
#32. I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.
Tom Perrotta
#33. It made me feel almost giddy, like a high-school girl watching the captain of the football team worked up his nerve to ask for a date. You mean me? Little old me? Oh my stars, really? Pardon me while I flutter my eyelashes.
Jeff Lindsay
#35. In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.
Billy Crystal
#36. I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.
Norah O'Donnell
#37. I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare.
Roger Goodell
#38. 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
#39. If we had played Poly a hundred more times that year we wouldn't have beaten them again. On that night we found a way. It was an unbelievable thing. It was a marvelous, miraculous win." -Coach Frank Allocco
Neil Hayes
#40. In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!
Hillary Scott
#41. Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.
Ike Barinholtz
#42. There's no way running on a beach or at some high school playground that you're going to get in football shape like you do when you practice.
Steve Mariucci
#43. When I started, there weren't any arenas. There was football fields, but they would only hold three or four or five hundred people at the most ... We played a lot of high school auditoriums and things like that - a lot of churches ... but boy, it has changed.
Jim Ed Brown
#44. I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.
Frank Grillo
#45. I played football all my life throughout high school and ran track.
Matt Cohen
#46. 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
#47. Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.
Russell Wilson
#48. In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.
Charles Mingus
#49. 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
#50. Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blacks really won't play golf in great numbers until some of these basketball and football stars buy some golf courses where blacks can play.
Charlie Sifford
#51. I'd say I was a tomboy ... I took wood shop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and was very unaware of anything girly for a long time.
Marisa Miller
#52. Quintana had known Tubbs since high school; Tubbs had been one of the slightly nerdy intellectuals on the edge of the popular clique, while Quintana had been metal shop and a football lineman.
John Sandford
#53. Owen Owens Field embodies the name of the team that calls it home. It's Spartan to the core.
Neil Hayes
#54. It's my job, first and foremost, to take care of the football. Guys work their tails off. That's Football 101. From the time you play youth ball to high school, college, pro, every level, that's the starting point for every quarterback. You have to take care of the ball.
Scott Tolzien
#55. When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.
George Raveling
#56. I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.
Robert Griffin III
#57. You have to run the football and stop the run, no matter what level you play at, whether it's high school, college or professional ranks. I'm a firm believer in that.
Chip Kelly
#58. I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't work out because I didn't have the arm. I also played wide receiver my senior year in high school.
Junior Seau
#59. Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.
Norah Jones
#60. In high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop.
Rodney Dangerfield
#61. I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
Irv Kupcinet
#62. 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
#63. The nerds are rich and successful, and those jocks are dumb divorced guys with beer bellies. By the way, in high school, I also played football and, yes, I have a beer belly. Jeannie can't divorce me. We are Catholic. Thank you, Jesus.
Jim Gaffigan
#64. I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
Art Donovan
#65. I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.
Calvin Pryor
#66. In New York now, they have Harvey Milk High School for gay students. They don't have much of a football team, but the half-time show ...
Bill Maher
#67. I actually ran in junior high school a little bit, you know, like most kids do in track and things. Then I got out of it and just trained for football and played ball for so many years - high school, college and the NFL.
Jeff Fisher
#68. I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school into college in the intramurals and I loved it. There was nothing like a team.
Tom Watson
#69. I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.
Katie Aselton
#70. The recruiter didn't bother to introduce himself when Alumbaugh extended his hand. Instead, he turned to Aliotti and said: "He's not six-foot-one."
Nice to meet you, too, Alumbaugh thought.
Neil Hayes
#71. I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
Parker Young
#72. Yes, high school...the land of drama queens and egocentric football players.
Hermione Daguin
#73. I'm a skinny, geeky, high school dropout - it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You'll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team 'cause he's on steroids and he's gonna get fat.
Dave Grohl
#74. I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.
George Smoot
#75. We played a lot of sandlot ball, so we were used to tackling each other, or falling on the concrete, things of that nature. And nine times out of 10, our flag games turned into tackle anyway. So when I got to high school, tackle football was kind of natural.
Nick Ferguson
#76. Of course, I was a head coach at high school for 15 years, so as far as on the field stuff it's the same but for college football it's off the field experience you got to get used to. It was a great learning experience for me, I learned a lot and I feel very prepared coming in here.
Gus Malzahn
#77. The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#78. I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game.
Cory Monteith
#79. 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
#80. When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.
Carson Daly
#81. In all four years of high school, not once did I make the football team. The other part of the story is that I never even tried out. Just raw talent, I guess.
Jarod Kintz
#82. I could dunk a volleyball in high school. I didn't play football because I knew they were going to put me at a fat-guy position, and I didn't want to do that. I am athletic.
Prince Fielder
#83. Football really was my salvation in high school. For some kids it's art. For some it's music. For me, it was strapping on those pads, yanking that helmet over my head, and getting out there with the team.
Rudy Ruettiger
#84. I played soccer growing up, and then high school came along and the football coach came out one day and was like, 'Hey, do you want to kick for us?' I was like, 'Sure, I'll come out and kick one day.' I got moved up to varsity and that's how the story began.
Kyle Brindza
#85. 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
#86. That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.
Garth Brooks
#87. I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
Action Bronson
#88. I played one year of fantasy football in high school. You really get into it. It makes more fans of the NFL, and people love talking about it. They'll come up to me and say, 'Why did you throw an interception? You ruined my fantasy team!' Or they're happy because they got you for a bargain.
Andrew Luck
#89. I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.
Mickey Rourke
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