Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bear Bryant

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

Bear Bryant

That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

Bear Bryant

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

Bear Bryant

What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.

Bear Bryant

If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"

Bernie Siegel

I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, 'It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.'

Most people know more about professional poker players than football players. It's amazing.

Youri Djorkaeff

Mo guaranteed me some new players, and a kind of football, more offensive. He didn't guarantee me victory, but to try, it was very important to me.

Brian Molko

There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed up in mother's castoffs and glamour is a certain sophistication, a certain other-worldliness, a certain unattainableness, which I think we certainly calculate. We believe that a band should be slightly larger than life - you should be transported to an alternate reality. I'm giving you some really good answers here, I'm very proud of myself.

Brian McDermott

Football is all I know.

Brian McDermott

People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.

Brian Griese

The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.

Brett Favre

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

Brett Favre

Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.

Brett Favre

In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life.

Brett Favre

Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.

Brett Favre

In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

Brett Favre

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.

Brett Favre

I love doing what I do.

Brett Favre

That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.

Brett Favre

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

Brett Favre

I'd write over and over, 'I will not throw into coverage.'

Brett Favre

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

Brett Favre

There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.

Brett Favre

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

Brett Favre

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

Brett Favre

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

Brett Favre

I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

Brandon Marshall

If I wasn't playing football, I'd be a juvenile probation officer.

Brandon Marshall

Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.

Brandon Marshall

Football is easy; I’ve done this since I was a baby. To me, that’s not success. Success to me is being a world changer…I say football is my platform, not my purpose. How can I use my platform to fulfill my purpose? I want people to say that he fulfilled his purpose.

Brandon Jacobs

The stuff I went through at Auburn? It didn't matter anymore. I just wanted to play football.

Brandon Jacobs

I fought as a kid. But football is what kept me out of trouble. You could always fight, whether you're in trouble or not