Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's an outstanding football player, and people are going to come from miles around to see him next year.

Pete Carroll

He's an extraordinary football player. He's so fast. He's big. He probably made us miss 11 tackles.

Mark Brunell

Good player. He just had a big day. You've got to give him a lot of credit. Very good athlete, very good football player.

George Best

Football is a sad game.

George Best

I want to be remembered for my football and the pleasure I gave people.

George Best

He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.

Gary Lineker

If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

Gary Lineker

I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

Gary Lineker

I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it's been a large part of my life, it's not the only thing in my life.

Gary Lineker

Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business life. During my football career I realised quickly what difference language skills can make

Gary Lineker

Chris Hughton has been sacked by Norwich. Now? With 5 games to go? Utterly bonkers!

I don't know if they were wrong. Sure you want your 1-2-3-4 picks to make it ---- that's how you get to have a good football team. But it's going to be hard for a sixth- or seventh-rounder to make it.

I don't know if I've ever been more proud of a football team than I was today. Especially on defense.

I don't know if I've ever been involved in a football game where we gave away so much so many times.

Bill Cowher

I don't know if I've been around a player more respected on a football team.

I don't know if it's broken. Something is wrong with his hand. It was a big loss, he's a good football player and he's had the most practice time. We are a little more freewheeling with him.

Rich Rodriguez

I don't know how those people come up with that and I don't want to know. Georgia should be the favorites. They are a very good football team. We are playing them in their home state.

I didn't know a thing about football. But I got hooked.

J. D. Salinger

I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know.

Irwin Shaw

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

Jack Nicklaus

I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.

Jack Nicklaus

When I look back on when I grew up, not even football players lifted weights. That was back 50 years ago.

Jack Nicholson

I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread.

Jack Kent Cooke

As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.

Jack Kemp

I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.

Jack Kemp

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Jack Kemp

You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

J. C. Watts

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

Gregg Easterbrook

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

Gregg Easterbrook

I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football.

Steve Coppell

He's strong and when he's got a sight of goal he thinks about nothing but scoring. Whether he keeps his place and plays at the weekend, though, I don't know. Last time he was injured I was guilty of rushing him back too quickly, so we'll see how he reacts to two hours of football and take it from there.

Jon Gruden

He's everything we're looking for in an offensive linemen, in a future leader for our football team.

He's just a sophomore, so we're trying him everywhere. He's got a lot of work to do, but he's got natural foot speed.