Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Kurt Warner

Alex Smith, what he’s done over the last two years for this football team, this is a mistake in not starting him. He needs to be the guy and it’s going to be tough if (Colin) Kaepernick doesn’t play well today and now you’re coming back saying, ‘Alex, we’re going to put you back in there.’

Kurt Warner

No matter what happens on the football field it doesn't change the kind of person I am.

Kurt Warner

On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out.

Kurt Warner

It's a group of guys that put their mind to going out and playing great football. Everybody that needed to step up, stepped up. Everybody that needed to make a play, made a play, and that's what it's all about.

Julio Iglesias

I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

Julie Harris

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

Joyce Brothers

Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.

Julianne Moore

We [with husband] try and spend time alone, which is really hard to do. Of course, when you have kids they're like: "Why are you going out? You went out last night... you can't go out tonight!" so, you try to do that, and you try and ask somebody to please turn off the football game because you can't stand it any longer and you'd rather talk to them.You try to make time for each other where you can. You try to plan a trip away somewhere.

Pamela Anderson

My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' called and offered me a cover just like that. I turned them down initially, because I was nervous about it and my boyfriend at the time didn't want me to do it, but they kept coming back , so I eventually said yes.

Otto Rehhagel

A football team is really a big family. There's a give and take... but a few are working for their name only. They go the whole week trying to figure out who said something, what they said and where it happened instead of showing that they're big men.

Junior Seau

I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.

Junior Seau

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

Junior Seau

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

Patrick Vieira

Thierry is the best striker in the world. By far he's the best in the world. Thierry doesn't just score goals. Even when he's not having a good day he can make an important pass. He is a strong character. If things go wrong, he bounces straight back. His effect on the club is very big.

John Scales

Harry [Redknapp] is going to be literally, literally pulling his hair out.

John Scales

That's put a strain on his left-hand knee.

John Pilger

Al journalism should be investigative, from football to cookery

Mark Noble

Not to win is guttering.

P. G. Wodehouse

Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general principles, of course. I mean to say, I know that the main scheme is to work the ball down the field somehow and deposit it over the line at the other end and that, in order to squalch this programme, each side is allowed to put in a certain amount of assault and battery and do things to its fellow man which, if done elsewhere, would result in 14 days without the option, coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench.