Quotes About Texas Football

#1. I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

Jay Hernandez

#2. Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

John Steinbeck

#3. Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

Dan Jenkins

#4. At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

Adam Dunn

#5. If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.

Ricky Williams

#6. 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

#7. Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.

Brent Musburger

#8. 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

#9. In Texas, two things are cherished above all else- football and gossip.

Cora Carmack

#10. You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.

Sarah Shahi

#11. We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.

Nate Berkus

#12. 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

#13. Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

Tom Landry

#14. I start by mulling a question and before I know it, a whole drama is unfolding in my head. Often, an idea sticks before I know what I'm going to do with it.

Jodi Picoult

#15. 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

#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. Every time you read into something you miss the soul, while searching for the motive.

Shannon L. Alder

#18. When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Thomas Merton

#19. Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable.

Kara Goucher

#20. The weapons that helped turn what had been initially peaceful demonstrations in Syria into ruthless civil war were delivered to Turkey with the USA's kind permission, either by ship in gigantic cargo containers or by air. From

Jurgen Todenhofer

#21. I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'

Walt Garrison

#22. My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.

Robert Genn

#23. 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