Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bear Bryant

I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.

Bear Bryant

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

Bear Bryant

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

Bear Bryant

Three rules for coaching: 1.) Surround yourself with people who can't live without football. 2.) Recognize winners. They come in all forms. 3.) Have a plan for everything.

Bear Bryant

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

Bear Bryant

That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

Bear Bryant

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

Bear Bryant

What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.

Bear Bryant

If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"

Bernie Siegel

I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, 'It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.'

Brian Urlacher

I want to be remembered as a championship football player.

Brian Urlacher

I like to think of myself as a regular guy, except I play football for a living. I try not to be an arrogant turd out there.

Brian Urlacher

I love football in the rain. That is what it's all about.

Brian Urlacher

It's freaking football. There are going to be big hits. I don't understand how they can do this after one weekend of hitting. And I can't understand how they can suspend us for it. I think it's a bunch of bull.

Brian Urlacher

You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable.

Brian Jordan

I'm in great shape, back-in-my-football-days shape. I've worked hard to get to this point.

Brian J. White

Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.

Brian Bosworth

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

Brian Bosworth

I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.

Brian Bosworth

Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.

Brian Bosworth

The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.

Brian Bosworth

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

Brian Bosworth

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

There are practicing Muslims playing in the National Football League. They were playing that night.

We're playing better football but we're just shooting ourselves in the foot.

Curtis Sliwa

We hope to get a foot patrol out. For a very small city, Newburgh has some severe and intense problems.

Jeremy Shockey

We didn't want this thing to be a distraction. It was totally under the radar. This is special for me. The organization showed they'd like me to retire with it. We can just toss around the football now and that makes it so much easier.

Charles Bukowski

Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane.

Lovie Smith

We've seen improvement each day. And it shown, he's given us a taste of it each game that he's played lately the last two football games,

Cam Newton

I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.

Cam Newton

There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.

Cam Newton

I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.

Cam Newton

In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.