Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billie Joe Armstrong

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

Mack Brown

When you're a football player at the University of Texas and you're playing in the national championship game the players understand the scrutiny is going to be a little more than usual. I think we'll handle it.

Keith Brooking

When you put winning football teams out there consistently, you get these nationally televised games. You get the notoriety that you deserve. That's the way it works, and that's the way it should be.

Dennis Quaid

I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.

Denis Law

A win would be better than a draw.

Denis Irwin

That kind of ball is meat and two drink for the Palace defence.

Daniel Gilbert

Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our cheering will somehow penetrate the television, travel through the cable system, find its way to the stadium, and influence the trajectory of the ball as it hurtles toward the goalposts!

Dan Barker

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. That implies that everyone else (such as the opposing football team, driver, student, parent) is de-selected, unfavored by God, and that I am special,above it all.

Dan Ariely

It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

Craig Johnston

Our football program is bigger than any one person.

Craig Johnston

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

Craig Johnston

And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me.

Craig Johnston

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

Eli Manning

I'm not satisfied. I'm still enjoying this. I still feel like I'm in the best part of my career and I can play at a high level. This is what I love to do: playing football and winning games.

Eli Manning

It's rare to have a best friend who is also your brother and also an NFL football player, and he knows exactly what I'm talking about.

Eli Manning

My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.

Eli Manning

No, we believed in ourselves all year. That's the position you want to be in.

Arthur Guiterman

In life as in football, fall forward when you fall.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's children may suffer from an underestimation of their needs. Our idea of what a child needs in each case reflects what parents need. The child's needs are thus a cultural football in an economic and marital game.

Apolo Ohno

I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I was watching short track, and it was obscure, but they looked like superheroes in their tight outfits, and I thought it was amazing. I wanted to do that. I made the national team at 14.

Ben Roethlisberger

I have a great family. I can call them and they don't want to talk just football They want to find out how my day went outside of football.

Ben Roethlisberger

I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships.

Bear Bryant

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

Bear Bryant

If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.

Bear Bryant

They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.

Bear Bryant

Football changes and so do people.

Bear Bryant

Here's a twenty, bury two.

Bear Bryant

People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.

Bear Bryant

I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.

Bear Bryant

It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

Bear Bryant

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

Bear Bryant

Three rules for coaching: 1.) Surround yourself with people who can't live without football. 2.) Recognize winners. They come in all forms. 3.) Have a plan for everything.