Subject: Sports » Football (Page 4)

I don't mind starting the season with a bunch of unknowns. I just don't like finishing a season with a bunch of them.

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

I feel like I’m the best, but you’re not going to get me to say that.

professional football player

It’s weird… people say they’re not like apes, but how do you explain football then?

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and be dumb enough to think it’s important.

(1916 – 2005) American politician & poet

The place was so empty, they could have had archery practice.

American football coach

The Bears aren't very genteel; some teams tend to remove the football from you, the Bears remove you from the football – it's much quicker.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

We are not going to be any three-clouds-and-a-yard-of-dust team.

football coach

Football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport; dancing is a contact sport.

(1915 – 1987) American football player and coach

I play football… I’m not trying to be a professor; the tests don’t seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven’t been through in school.

Clemson football recruit

It is committee meetings, called huddles, separated by outburst of violence.

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

(1918 – 2001) American sportswriter, commentator & actor

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

(1946 – ) English broadcaster

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

football coach

The (orange) uniforms were already picked out by the time I got here. I didn't give it too much thought until I saw our buses and I said, `My God, we're dressed just like that bus.'

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

That is because I don't have one.

American football player

If lessons are learned in defeat, as they say, our team is really getting a great education.

American football coach

Man's got courage. Man's got guts. And I don't think he'll be with us very long.

professional football & TV commentator

Playing middle linebacker is like walking through a lion's cage in a three-piece porkchop suit.

professional football player

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

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

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