Subject: Sports » Football (Page 5)

Three or four plane crashes and we're in the playoffs.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

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

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

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

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in bad humor.

American football player & coach

He's a leading leader on this football team.

American football coach

Defensively, I think it’s important for us to tackle.

professional football player

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

American basketball coach & executive

I think they have to take this bunch down to the slaughterhouse to get weighed.

American football coach

Three things are bad for you: I can't remember the first two, but doughnuts are the third.

football coach

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

300+ pound American football player

Well the frog men finally got Rosie.

(1925 – ) American professional football player

 I want a school my football team can be proud of.

(1905 – 1998) botanist, author & University of Oklahoma president

Football doesn’t build character; it eliminates the weak ones.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.

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

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

American football player

Sure, luck means a lot in football; not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

(1930 – ) American football player & coach

I had a lifetime contract, but the administration declared me dead.

Clemson football coach

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

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor

I’m traveling to all 51 states to see who can stop #85.

professional football player (#85)

Hollywood made a movie of my life; the film had me proposing to my wife on the football field… I would never misuse a football field that way.

American football player