Subject: Sports » Football (Page 7)

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

(1915 – 1987) American football player and coach

One player was lost because he broke his nose; how do you go about getting a nose in condition for football?

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach

Baseball players are smarter than [American] football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the pitch?

American baseball pitcher

I don’t know. I only played there for nine years.

American football player

Speed, strength and the inability to register pain immediately.

American football player

They didn't hesitate: Wendy's, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and Burger King.

Denver Bronco team nutritionist

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

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach

I made a collect call to the Lions after they drafted me and they wouldn’t accept it.

(1935 – 2012) American football player, sports announcer & actor

If he wanted me to run 26 miles through the hills, I would. If he wanted me to carry water bottles, I would. If he wanted me to get my hair cut like his… well, you have to draw the line somewhere.

American football player

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

Indiana University football coach & sports commentator

I'm gonna ask the Falcons for so much money they'll have to put me on layaway.

American football player

I had an advantage – I slept with his mother.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Sports is the toy department of human life, and Monday Night Football is the largest attraction in the toy department.

(1918 – 1995) American sports journalist & television commentator

There aren't many secrets in coaching…. well, there's one secret: Get a guy like Warrick Dunn, throw him a screen pass and watch him run 52 yards with it.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

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

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor

I’m not allowed to comment on lousy officiating.

professional football general manager

God invented football so grown men would have something to do between wars.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Underdog, overdog, hotdog; I guess you want to be an underdog – but an underdog with the best team.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat; that costs money and we don't have any.

Georgia Southern football coach

Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach