Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shania Twain

I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.

Sean Harris

When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.

Scott Linehan

It's still about making a good decision. We all want to have the Reggie Bush's of the world on our football team, but it's not reality.

Peter Temple

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

Peter Kenyon

The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.

Peter Berg

I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.

Pele

Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.

Pele

The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

Pele

I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'

Pele

Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!

Pele

I love people. I wanted to be with the people. I wanted to give something back what I get from football, because God gave everything to me.

Pele

Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.

Pele

I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal you need to think quick and play quick so its easier for you when you move to normal football.

Pele

Brazil, always they buy from the United States. The first who was sell to the United States was football.

Pele

Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem.

Pele

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

Pete Rozelle

I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.

Pete Rozelle

People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.

Phyllis Diller

I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

Phyllis Diller

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Roger Milla

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

Roger Milla

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

Roger Staubach

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

Sam Snead

I looked like a monkey trying to wrestle a football.

Rush Limbaugh

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

Rush Limbaugh

In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust.

Rush Limbaugh

Football is like life and I know life.

Tony Kornheiser

So instead of the Super Bowl, we've got the Stupor Bowl. Two once-proud teams, now 0-4 and stumbling through the season like zombies. And if you think the Cowboys are bad (and they are), the Redskins are so bad that every few plays you have to put a mirror under thieir noses to make sure they're still breathing.

Tony Kornheiser

Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.

Tony Dorsett

You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.

Tony Dorsett

You always want to see the NFL try to protect the players.

Tony Dorsett

I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.

Tony Evans

Thanksgiving is not just a warm, cozy holiday. It's not merely a time of recreation and relaxation and watching football all day. As we give thanks, we need to put our mind, soul and spirit into our thanks and into our praise.