Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Noll

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

Chuck Noll

Never make a major decision based solely on money.

Chuck Noll

Watch the film, not the stopwatch.

Chuck Noll

Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

Chuck Pagano

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?

Alfred Hitchcock

Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

Alfred Hitchcock

There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game.

Alfred Hitchcock

There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

Amy Trask

Al Davis is a legend and his contribution and influence on the game of football, the National Football League, and the Oakland Raiders has been profound for decades. To view his contribution and influence on a season-by-season basis does not make sense: he has dominated the industry for a lifetime. I can't tell you how he may have impacted or guided other individuals during their careers but I can speak from personal experience. He inspires me to be better every day than I was the day before.

Andy Serkis

You're watching your kids playing football, and you're not present. It's like the worst... it's horrible. I despise myself for it. I think it's a particularly male thing. Being present and in the moment with your kids is something a lot of men struggle with.

Andy Rooney

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

Andy Rooney

I mean, I'm not a sexist person, but a woman has no business being down there trying to make some comment about a football game.

Andrew O'Hagan

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

Andrew O'Hagan

I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.

Andrew O'Hagan

I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.

Andre Caldwell

They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.

Andre Benjamin

If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.

Gene Cernan

What I remember perhaps most is starting up that ladder and looking over my shoulder and looking at those footprints down there and realizing that they were really mine and that there weren't going to be any (more) for a long time to come.

Alex Karras

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

Alex Karras

Everybody always wanted me to be sorry, I guess, and I am. And I'm tired of it. And I want to play football and, well, if I can't I'll have to do something else.

Alex Kapranos

The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'

E. M. Forster

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Drew Bledsoe

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

Drew Brees

The only team that believed in me was the Saints, and I feel like I owe them a great debt of gratitude. I want to give them what they saw in me-a guy who could lead this team to a championship.

Drew Brees

We've got something special going here. We want to keep it going. You don't have many opportunities like this, and the window of opportunity for us is now.

Drew Brees

I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

Drew Brees

I don't believe that you can be too short as a quarterback. It's not about height.

Drew Brees

I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state

Drew Brees

When you care about a guy beyond just the field, that's when the chemistry becomes really special.

Drew Brees

I expect to make big plays. And when I don't, I'm upset about it.

Drew Brees

Four years ago, who ever thought this would have happened?

Drew Brees

I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.

Drew Brees

It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays.