Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sandra Bullock

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.

Ronnie Lott

Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.

Roger Moore

Football is being used as a language in that project...The vital message being communicated to the boys and young men is about safe sex, the use of condoms and preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Rod Stewart

I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too.

Rod Stewart

I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.

Robert M. Hutchins

Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

Robert M. Hutchins

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

Roger Goodell

I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare.

Roger Goodell

My job is to protect the integrity of the NFL and to make sure the game is as safe as possible.

Roger Goodell

The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.

Sandra Bernhard

Barbara Bush has her finger on the pulse of America. Im so glad shes back and more compassionate than ever, ... Thats right, of course people just sat around New Orleans, boring, uninspired, soulless New Orleans, and dreamed of someday relocating to the Astrodome. Oh, dear Lord, if only I could leave my unhappy existence and head on up to wonderful Houston and live with my friends side by side in a spacious football stadium, my life would be so much richer and complete.

Vincent Tan

Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.

Vincent Tan

I wear sunglasses because of the glare of spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold.

Vince Young

All I have to do is play football now.

Ving Rhames

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

Will Shields

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

Walter Lippmann

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

Wilhelm Reich

If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.

Willie Lanier

There is no way that I could have survived if I had not changed my style of play.

Willie Lanier

We had the kind of team that didn't back down from anybody. If they wanted to intimidate us, we could intimidate as well as they could. Our team was too big and too good to intimidate.

Willie Lanier

My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.

Willie McGinest

This group right here is one of the most underrated groups in football. We don’t talk enough about this group. Very smart, they don’t leave the field, they play every single down, and they can cover backs and tight ends out of the backfield. This group is special.

Vinnie Jones

I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.

Vinnie Jones

I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.

Vinnie Jones

Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.

Vinnie Jones

I got into moisturiser when I played football. If you're out in all weathers you have to take care of your face.

Vinnie Jones

Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.

Vinnie Jones

Over the years, I've had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don't think I look intimidating, but I'm sure other people have their opinions.

Woody Hayes

I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.

Woody Hayes

No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.

Woody Hayes

The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt—and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.

Woody Hayes

The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.

Woody Hayes

In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves. And that's what people have to do, too-make sure they don't beat themselves.