Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Manziel

I'm very about football and very about my job, which doesn't get reported or won't get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That's I think what everybody else does, and that's what I should do.

Johnny Giles

Now let me say that Matt Busby was a great manager and Manchester United wouldn't be where they are without him. He was a god at the club, but he wasn't a god to me. Football is like that sometimes.

Johnny Giles

There's only one plan in football: win you next match.

John Woo

I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.

He's not only big and strong, he's got moves. They were just better than we were tonight. They're going to win a lot of football games this year, that's for sure.

Tony Dungy

He's got a little foot soreness, not really a sprain but just a sore foot. But all indications are he should be ready to go. So we just wanted to rest him today.

Jon Gruden

He's made plays. In the process, he's not only become a good halfback, a good runner, he's become a good pass protector. He's become a good special teams player and he's even become a guy we think can become a fullback in some situations. So he's come a long way as a football player.

However, it doesn't mean he will play football after that period. When that moment arrives, Gabriel will be tested to see if he is ready to play football or not.

How many football players have been on Sesame Street ? You want to be creative.

Joe Paterno

I don't look at it as something personal. All I wanted to do was make sure everyone knew that we have a good football team.

Joan Collins

And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.

Jimmy Greaves

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

Jimmy Hill

And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold.

Jimmy Hill

What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.

Manolo Blahnik

I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.

Lucy Powell

Even though I support the blue side of Manchester's football heritage, I don't really mind that wherever I go in the world it's not Manchester City that starts the conversation. 'Ah, yes, Manchester United,' is the response when I say where I come from. It's commonplace everywhere - in Europe, Africa, Asia and even the U.S.

Lou Holtz

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

John Goodman

I ain't never been in no college with famous people. I was a drifter for a while. I just was desperate to fit in with a group. Really, I was swimming. I was lost, treading water, trying to find my way. I wanted to play football. It didn't work out. I didn't really know what I wanted until I found acting in a theater department, and then everything just fell into place, and I had a passion about something. Then, I started living my life.

John F. Kennedy

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

John F. Kennedy

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Jon Postel

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.

Jodie Whittaker

I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.

Jim Otto

I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge.

Jim Otto

I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see.

Jim Otto

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.

George Lucas

Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

Emily Ratajkowski

You can go super American and get barbecue and beer and be like, 'Whatever, I'm watching a football game.' That's exactly what I'm going to do.

Jimmy Fallon

Thank you... preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.

Joe Bob Briggs

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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.