Subject: Sports » Football (Page 10)

He is not in a union; he can carry the ball as many times as we want him to… anyway, the ball doesn't weigh that much.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

We have a lot of success with a dumb person calling plays. I'm hesitant to have a smart one call them.

(1937 – ) football coach, sportscaster, author & speaker

To Dallas Cowboys President Tex Schramm: You're one of the two most efficient organizations in the 20th century.

Schramm: What's the other?

Cook: The Third Reich.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

I keep a picture of O. J. Simpson at my side at all times to remind me of the days when I knew how to coach.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Old place-kickers never die, they just go on missing the point.

professional football kicker (once seen wearing a watch during a game)

Two kinds of American football players ain't worth a damn: one that never does what he's told and the other that does nothing but what he's told.

(1923 – 2013) American professional football coach

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

They may have regained all 40 yards… in fact, they may have.

Give each guy on the line an ax.

(1935 – 2012) American football player, sports announcer & actor

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor

It was cool, man, but I’m a little depressed they didn’t have a buffet.

300+ pound American football player

On this team, we are all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

(1937 – ) football coach, sportscaster, author & speaker

I don’t know. I only played there for nine years.

American football player

We’ve broken down the expansion teams and they’ve averaged winning 2.7 games their first year, which to me is rather difficult. I figured out the 2, but the .7 has got me wondering what the hell is going on.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Could he run? Are you kidding? He had more moves than Mayflower Van Lines.

Tennessee football player

Virginia has already spent more on plugging Shawn Moore for the Heisman Trophy than Thomas Jefferson spent getting elected president.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

It is better to give a lick than receive one.

American football player

Because if it doesn't work out, I don't want to blow the whole day.

American football player

I ruined my hands in the ring… the referee kept stepping on them.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

Emotion disappears about the sixth time that guy hits you in the mouth and you realize those tears in your eyes are not because of dear old alma mater.

American football coach