Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Arnold

Hey, Warren, the Raiders signed you to a seven-year deal. I guess Bill Callahan was right - they are the dumbest team in America.

Tom Arnold

I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football.

Todd Helton

I really enjoyed high-school football, but I didn't really enjoy college football. I liked to play the games, but I didn't like the practice. In baseball, I enjoy the practice almost as much as the games.

Tony Gonzalez

I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone.

Tony Gonzalez

Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.

Tony Gonzalez

I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!

Tony Gonzalez

I love football. The games are a pure rush. By the time I'm done playing, I want to be among the best tight ends ever to play the game.

Tony Gonzalez

It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.

Tony Gonzalez

Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.

Steve Sabol

I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments in time. He would look at a woman's face and he would see almost a three-dimensional look even though it was a flat canvas. I thought, well why couldn't we do the same thing with a football play?

Steve Sabol

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull,

Steve Sabol

Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now.

Steve Sabol

If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

Steve Sabol

To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

Steve Sabol

I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.

Steve Sabol

But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.

Steve Sabol

Life is good. Football is better.

Steve Sabol

Life is great, football is better.

Steve Largent

I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they got through playing. Today's player doesn't.

Usain Bolt

I play football every Tuesday and Thursday early in the season. I am smart enough at the game. I score a lot of goals. I wouldn't be the best in the world but I am OK.

Usain Bolt

When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a very good cricketer if I was a professional now. I think I would probably have been the best, in fact.

Summer Altice

I would play football, because I love it.

Stuart Pearce

In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.

Stuart Pearce

His return gives England another key to its bow.

Stuart Pearce

I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.

Stuart Pearce

Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.

Stuart Pearce

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

Stevie Nicks

I was so mad I wasn't sitting at the stadium watching it in person. So when Prince came back to the box where I would have been after he performed, he said to my makeup artist, "Where's Stevie?" She said, "She's sick, and she was told by our manager that she would have to walk across the football field when the game was over in the mud and try to find a limo, so she made the decision that she couldn't do that." He was not happy that I wasn't there, and now today I'm not happy about it because I should have gone and I should have walked in that mud for him.

Robbie Savage

I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt. (on retiring from international football)

Robbie Savage

There are kids out there who'd chop their legs off to play football for Brighton

Robbie Fowler

As a young kid, I wasn't really interested at that stage - getting financial advice was far from my mind. I was focused on playing football. But I got onboard with this financial adviser and I heeded his advice, and that was my smartest money decision.

Robbie Fowler

I hate talking about football. I just do it, you know?

Ricky Williams

Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.