Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herschel Walker

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

Herschel Walker

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

Herschel Walker

Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.

Hayden Fry

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

Hayden Fry

When it's football season, I'm all football.

Hidetoshi Nakata

I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

Justin Timberlake

I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

Kate Mara

I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.

Josh Lucas

I know for myself my big, long friendships they don't have the same problems any more, but they also-when you get together you often times just have a drink and watch football together. You're not really talking about everything so much the same way. You just need to be around each other, and yet you can look at each other and so much is said just between those minutiae- it's totally subtle is really what it is. I felt like that, you know, a life that's been so totally dramatic then becomes beauty in the fact that it's just so small.

Joshua Bell

Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.

Leigh Steinberg

Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.

Leigh Steinberg

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

Leigh Steinberg

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

Leigh Steinberg

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

Lawrie Sanchez

It's nice for us to have a fresh face in the camp to bounce things off.

Lawrence Taylor

When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.

Lawrence Taylor

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

Lawrence Taylor

Football is not part of that lifestyle anymore.

Lawrence Taylor

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

Lawrence Taylor

Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'

Kyle Chandler

I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.

Kyle Chandler

I also played two years of high school football but I wasn't very, how shall I say it, talented.

Kurt Warner

I think Marshawn Lynch is the most important player in this football game.

Kurt Warner

I’m concerned that if one of those two areas doesn’t play up to par – if they give up some points or they can’t run the football – and it gets stuck on Russell Wilson’s shoulders…if he has to stay in the pocket against good defenses, read coverages, make the right plays, see the field, that’s where I worry.

Kurt Warner

LeSean McCoy has become the most exciting player in the National Football League. I believe he’s the MVP this year.

Kurt Warner

I just always felt I'd be playing football in the NFL - or at least playing for a living.

Lynn Swann

I was not a very good football player when I started out.

Lynn Swann

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

Guus Hiddink

I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.

Guus Hiddink

Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is inferior. It's not.

Grant Teaff

The coaching profession has lost one of its true legends. Though he was best known for winning more football games than any other coach when he retired, Eddie Robinson's impact on coaching and the game of football went far beyond wins and losses. He brought a small school in northern Louisiana from obscurity to nationwide, if not worldwide, acclaim and touched the lives of hundreds and hundreds of young men in his 57 years at Grambling. That will be his greatest legacy.

Gordon Taylor

Football has to work really hard to put a smile on peoples face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if youre always going to sell out to the highest bidder.

Gordon Taylor

People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'.