Subject: Sports » Football (Page 13)

Some teams are fair haired, we're not – some teams are the Smiths, we're the Grabowskis.

(1939 – ) American football player & coach

He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way.

professional football player & coach

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

[Punter] Bill Bradley kicks them so high and so short you can't run them back; you have to fair catch every one. Us coaches call that the punt of no return.

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

When I played football, we were small, but we were slow. Our record was five and five; we lost five games at home and five on the road.

Texas businessman

I don’t think this is an example of life and limb being at risk; I like the fact that our fans care.

football team president

I really just have to see a picture of the Chicago Bears once a week and I don't miss anything.

American football player

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

It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

1913 – 1983) American college football coach

In Montana, they renamed a town after an all-time great, Joe Montana. Well, a town in Massachusetts changed their name to honor my guy Terry Bradshaw – Marblehead.

American football player & commentator

We get no respect. Everybody we play on the road has made us their homecoming game.

Indiana University football coach & sports commentator

Tighten the loose ends and loosen the tight ends.

American football player

The older you get, the faster you ran as a kid.

professional football player & coach

Kickers are like horse manure. They're all over the place.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.

professional football player

The wrong quarterback is the one that’s in there.

Football kickers are like taxi cabs… you can always go out and hire another one.

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

Football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

(1856 – 1915) writer, publisher, artist & philosopher

I’m fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.

wife of coach Don Shula

It would have been a good pass if Harry had been playing for us.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach