Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Leno

The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.

Jay Leno

In the NFL, 31 players have been arrested just since the Super Bowl. In fact, a lot of teams are switching to the no-huddle offense because players aren't allowed to associate with known felons.

Carles Puyol

There's a special part of Messi's brain allowing him to see the split-second chaos of football in his own personal super slow motion.

Carlo Ancelotti

Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.

Buzz Bissinger

I actually like football a great deal.

Buzz Bissinger

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

Buzz Bissinger

But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

Buzz Bissinger

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

Bum Phillips

The harder we played, the behinder we got.

Burt Bacharach

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

Bum Phillips

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. (When asked if he noticed how slowly Earl Campbell got up after each play.)

Bum Phillips

I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

Bum Phillips

I thought I did until I looked at some old game films. (When asked if he played college football)

Bum Phillips

Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.

Bum Phillips

Respect all. Fear none.

Bum Phillips

Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.

Bum Phillips

That boy could throw a ball through a car wash and not get it wet. (on Warren Moon)

Bum Phillips

There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.

Bum Phillips

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

Bud Grant

We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.

Bud Grant

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.

Bud Wilkinson

Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.

Kinky Friedman

I'm not pro-life, and I'm not pro-choice. I'm pro-football.

Oliver Kahn

I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.

Oliver Kahn

It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting better at it is supposed to be fun. Perhaps it would have been better if I had understood this as a young man.

Oliver Reed

Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.

Margaret Atwood

I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.

Marcus Thomas

Whoa! I better lay off the peyote!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Marcel Desailly

Football gives the African people hope, a true motivation for their life.

Manuel Pellegrini

I think the way we played was as important as winning the title, the way we did it with the players and the fans enjoying it.

Kevin McKidd

In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.

Kenny Dalglish

It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.