Subject: Sports » Football (Page 12)

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

American football player
Football Sports

The fat lady might have cleared her throat, but she hasn't sung yet.

Texas Tech football coach
Football Sports

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.

American basketball coach
Basketball Football Sports

Well the frog men finally got Rosie.

(1925 – ) American professional football player
Football

Football coaches walk across the field after the game and pretend to congratulate the opposing coach; baseball managers head right for the beer.

American sportswriter
Baseball Football Sports

You've got to think lucky; if you fall into a mud hole, check your back pocket – you might have caught a fish.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach
Football Situations Sports

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season… one word and one word only – Super Bowl.

football coach
Football Misspokements Sports

I wouldn’t ever set out to hurt anybody deliberately unless it was, you know, important – like a league game or something.

professional football player
Football Sports

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb; to be a back, you only have to be dumb.

(1888 – 1931) American football player & coach
Football Intelligence Sports Stupidity

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

(1888 – 1931) American football player & coach
Football Sports

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
Football Sports

A big factor in the game was the number of points scored.

(1939 – ) American football player & coach
Football Misspokements Sports

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

Tennessee football player
Football Sports

The only problem with doing the impossible is that everybody expects you to duplicate the impossible.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Tighten the loose ends and loosen the tight ends.

American football player
Football Sports

Our strength is that we don’t have any weaknesses; our weakness is that we don’t have any real strengths.

College football coach
Football Sports

Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentlemen's game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts.

Football Sports

God's busy; they'll have to make do with me.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

If we hadn’t given them those first four touchdowns, it might have been different.

American football coach
Football Misspokements Sports

Tom Landry is such a perfectionist that if he were married to Dolly Parton, he’d ask her to cook.

American football player
Football Sports

Dance with the one what brung ya.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach
Football Sports