Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Loria

I don't watch a lot of football for fun. I've tried, but I'm always looking to see if the left tackle is holding.

Jeffrey Kluger

Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.

Jeff Mangum

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

Jesse Plemons

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Doing the right thing is important, which is where strategy comes in. But doing that thing well—execution—is what sets companies apart. After all, every football play is designed to go for a huge gain. The reason it doesn’t is because of execution—people drop balls, miss blocks, go to the wrong place, and so forth. So, success depends on execution—on the ability to get things done.

Jeff Foxworthy

If you've ever been antique shopping during a big football game, you're either gay, or married.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.

James Cameron

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

Jamal Lewis

I don't watch that much football... I really like to play it.

Jackie Mason

They call it football, but the object of the game is to bash the other guy so hard that he's eventually carried off the field on a stretcher. I can't watch football anymore. My psychiatrist said it's better that way. I used to watch a game, see the players in a huddle - and think they were talking about me.

Jackie Mason

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

Gary Oldman

Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

Gabriel Batistuta

When I was playing football I never enjoyed it that much, I was never happy... if I scored two goals, I wanted a third, I always wanted more. Now it's all over I can look back with satisfaction, but I never felt that way when I was playing.

Gabriel Byrne

I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

Gabriel Iglesias

I know enough football to know that's funny!

Christine Lavin

Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

Chris Van Allsburg

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.

Chris Kamara

Well done to the lady lineswoman.

Chris Kamara

Barnsley have started off the way they mean to begin.

Fabio Capello

Christiano knows English, Messi knows football

F. Scott Fitzgerald

but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game

George Smoot

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

George Steinbrenner

Winning means everything...You show me a good loser and I'll show a loser.

George Orwell

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

George R. R. Martin

I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.

Vince Young

I don't listen to negative things from people that don't understand the game. When I hear positive things, it shows people that know football are really paying attention.

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Come on. Football is instincts and reaction. It's not basketball, where you're waiting for somebody to set a screen. It's ludicrous.

Hunter S. Thompson

It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.

Hunter S. Thompson

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.

Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

Hunter S. Thompson

Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers. He hates music, football and sex, in no particular order, and he is no fun at all.