Subject: Sports » Football (Page 6)

You want a messenger boy, call Western Union.

American football player

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

professional football player

It's like my ex-wife… 21 different personalities and seven of them hated me.

American football coach

Frank Leahy was here [Notre Dame] for three years and went to war; I think sometimes that would be a welcome relief to get away from the pressures.

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

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

College football coach

Sportscaster: The extra point is no good!

Robert Scott: Then it isn’t an extra point, is it?

It does not take a rocket scientist to coach a professional football team, but, of course, I was one of the few who happened to be a rocket scientist.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Capece is kaput.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

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

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor

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

I'm all in favor of it.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

If you’re mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It’s about the same.

professional football player

The pads don't keep you from getting hurt. They just keep you from getting killed.

American football player

They're a little bit like money. You don't want to die with them and give them to your kids, so you might as well use them if you need them.

American football coach

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

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

Losing the Super Bowl is worse then death… you have to get up in the morning.

(1918 – 1990) football coach

What’s the toughest thing in a professional football game? … Its being the mother of the quarterback.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

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

football coach

After indulging in some heavy, late-night research with scholarly friends, Bobby was driving back to his hotel, innocently enough, when he was sideswiped by several empty cars lurking at curbside.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter

George Halas throws nickels around like man hole covers.

(1939 – ) American football player & coach

The guy in front of me got number 76 and the guy behind me got number 78.

American football player & coach