Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Dickerson

I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant. I didn't like the media attention.

Eric Dickerson

Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, "When are you gonna start running hard?" The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth - Man, I love to run!

Eric Dickerson

I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field.

Eric Dickerson

I don't give players a chance to hit me.

Eric Dickerson

Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

Eric Dickerson

I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.

Eric Dickerson

I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.

Eric Dickerson

I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one - and stay healthy.

Eric Dickerson

I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

Emmanuel Petit

I had lots of posters on my bedroom wall of players like Zico, many Brazilian and Italian players, not many players in particular but I loved football so much and I especially loved skilful players.

Emmanuel Petit

A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional.

Emmanuel Petit

Being a footballer is not just about wearing the shirt and playing football on the pitch. You have to be clean, you have to do right things, you have to show courage, you have to show many many things you know. I always say that you play the same way on the pitch as you do in life.

Emmanuel Petit

Being a coach means giving your job 200% all the time and you're family is left on the side so I don't want to risk my family anymore just because I love football. I don't feel this ambition, I'm involved in many businesses and I want to live my own life, to see my daughters grow and want to see my family happy.

Emmanuel Petit

It's sometimes difficult living in France. People are more open minded in England, and of course I'm missing England in terms of football and the passion that the fans show, they're really passionate.

Emmanuel Jal

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

Emmanuelle Beart

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

John Hickenlooper

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

John Hodgman

If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the 'coach' or 'yelling surrogate' dad who will never be happy.

John Heisman

What is this? It is a prolate spheroid, an elongated sphere-in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing. Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

John Heisman

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

John Heisman

Don't cuss. Don't argue with the officials. And don't lose the game.

John Harbaugh

The thing about special teams - and I think football in general - is sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you,

Any time the game means something, it makes it that much more exciting. We missed two opportunities playing two top-10 teams (in LSU and Georgia) on national TV. We just need to get back on track and win a football game right now.

Smith is a great player, but it's not just him. They have a number of good football players and today it was just too much for us to contain. They come at you in all different ways. They are a very good football team.

Mike Holmgren

At the end of the year, if you have a guy who scores 20 touchdowns, gains 1,500 yards, goes to the Pro Bowl, does all those things, you're probably happy you have him, ... And Shaun, I'm glad we have him. If you can have a guy not get hurt and play for you all season long, that will be a positive for your football team.

Chris Scelfo

That's all we have right now, is football. We lost everything else.

Torry Holt

He was telling Marc, 'C'mon, throw it my way,' ... and I told him, 'We're going to throw the football -- you just have to make a play on it.'

Marc Trestman

He was serious about his business; he was into football completely.

Jerry Rice

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, ... it was about the way I played the game.

Chad Pennington

To be honest, it probably made us better football players in the end, ... We had to go out and learn to work with other people.

Eduardo Galeano

There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.

Antonio's an outstanding contributor to our football team. A leader, without a doubt.

Appalachian really is a good football team. They run so much better than other teams. When you look at the league right now, these guys are playing better than anybody.