Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Young

First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.

Steve Young

The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.

Steve Young

My goal--and this is kind of my own little secret--but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and, and, and be a missionary around the world. Places where Steve Young--not that it's big really that many places--but places where they have no idea about football.

Vince Flynn

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

Vince Flynn

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

Vince Lombardi

Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting

Vince Lombardi

Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.

Vince Lombardi

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

Vince Lombardi

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

Vince Lombardi

Gentlemen, this is the football.

Vince Lombardi

winning is not everything it is the only thing

Vince Lombardi

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

Vince Lombardi

Gentleman, this is a football.

Vince Lombardi

To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

Vince Lombardi

In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.

Vince Lombardi

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

Vince Lombardi

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization...

Vince Lombardi

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Vince Lombardi

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

Vince Lombardi

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

Vince Lombardi

I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.

Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Vijender Singh

I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.

Sting

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

Steve Henderson

I'd catch a punt naked, in the snow, in Buffalo, for a chance to play in the NFL.

Steve Jobs

So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.

Steve Cotterill

I don't want to give Robbie Blake any praise, but he was superb.

Steve Cotterill

If we'd kept a clean sheet tonight we'd have won 1-0.

Steve Coppell

He's carrying his left leg, which, to be honest, is his only leg.

Steve Coppell

The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost's eyes.

Steve Coppell

I'm not going to make it a target, but it's something to aim for.

Sri Chinmoy

Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like forcing oneself to play football in spite of one's utmost unwillingness. One plays, but gets no joy. Conscious effort is like playing football most willingly. One gets real joy. Similarly, conscious meditation gives us inner Delight from the soul.