Football Quotes - Page 123

Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.

Well, yes, but it's not about the football." "You're saying that football is not about football?" "It's the sharing," she said. "It's being part of the crowd. It's chanting together. It's all of it. the whole thing.

Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.

If everyone's happy, then I'm the character where when I enter that means there's trouble. In a movie, when I enter, it's not a good thing. But I know where I'm at. But, you know, you don't have to call me by my character's name for months on end. Football taught me that, because you can go from being best friends to having to play that person on another team, you have to be able to turn that on and off. You need to find that middle ground.

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am.

I have to say, Any Given Sunday was good, but it was too ambitious. You can't do everything in three hours. It went on through ownership issues, quarterback issues, the running back issues, LT issues, and all that, even the coach issues. It was too much. Whereas, Playmakers says, Yeah, you got all those problems, but my god, you're playing football, you're doing the best thing in the world. You're playing football, you're having fun, you're getting paid to play a game. Well, with all the bad things about Hollywood all the drug use, all that, it's still a pretty good life.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith.

There really has been only one thing in my life that has made me feel complete, and that is the game of football. The ability to throw a football was my God-given talent. That was my blessing and my passion; that was my calling in live, and everything that I've accomplished has derived from that.

Ride it when you retire.

I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game.

I don't have to play football.

I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform.

I'm going to have my family after I play football.

I had my family before I played football.

I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.

When I was a kid, I'd watch pro football on TV and I'd see someone make a play and I'd say, 'I wish that could be me.' But then I'd have to wonder, 'Could I make that big play?'

There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.

I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature.

I'm a football player by trade. That's what I do, ... So I did everything I could to make myself a football player again.

I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

Before you go anywhere, Mr. Football Player,” Nita said, “I want to know exactly what your intentions are toward my Blue.

When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion.

I would play football, because I love it.