Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gus Van Sant

It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.

Greg Schiano

The running backs are the strengths of their football team. They have quality players who can do a number of things for their team.

Greg Schiano

There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.

Greg Mortenson

Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country of thirty-minute power lunches and two-minute football drills. Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

Graham Roberts

I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football.

Graham Taylor

Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

Graham Taylor

Footballers are no different from human beings.

Graham Taylor

In football, time and space are the same thing.

Graham Taylor

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

Graham Taylor

I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.

Graham Taylor

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

Graham Taylor

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

Graham Taylor

The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.

Graham Taylor

Very few great goals actually go in.

Graham Taylor

If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.

Graham Taylor

His football does not seem to suffer by all of this going on around him. You look at his passing and he makes it look so simple. When he passes the ball, it always seems to go where he wants it to go. That sounds simple, but believe me, it is not. (on David Beckham)

Graham Taylor

There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."

Jim Brown

I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me.

Jim Brown

I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

Jim Brown

I'm not pro-owner or pro-player. I am pro-football. I want the game to go on. I want the game to be tough. I don't want the game to be a killer of our players.

Jim Brown

If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.

Jim Brown

I loved the game. We played because we loved it.

Jim Brown

I'd rather play lacrosse six days a week and football on the seventh.

Jim Brown

When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

Jim Brown

The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.

Jim Brown

I don't teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that's not it. You don't have to be number 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

Jim Brown

Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts.

Jerry Kramer

Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap.

Jean Baudrillard

Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupifying the masses

Jay Mohr

Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.

Jay Mohr

Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.

Jay Hernandez

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

Jay Leno

You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network.