Football Quotes - Page 129

There's nothing easy about winning a game in the National Football League, let alone winning a championship, things that we've done in the past. However, that's in the past.

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

Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy.

The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than simply to pocket six million quid for having been a failure and run for the hills. They want beautiful, flowing football and tangible success, at St James' Park. Fine. I, meanwhile, want Jessica Alba and the Nobel prize for literature. I make my prospects slightly more realistic.

On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.

I think I'm starting to figure out when I need to get rid of it and when I don't need to.

As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I'm not going to slam it in its face.

I try to go through my reads and then, if I have the option to run, I do run.

There's a fine line between playing with fear and then taking bad plays and playing with no fear.

I think I've proven that I'm throw-first, and then run if I need to.

The mold that everyone is seeing nowadays is kind of the Aaron Rodgers mold - I try to mix and match from the different quarterbacks.

I still don't think it's sunk in that I won the Heisman. I'll be able to reflect back on the season, appreciate those types of things and realize that although I wanted to 'be like Mike' when I was growing up, now I get to go out and be in the NFL.

The Redskins haven't won the division since 1999, and we came in and we did it in one year!

The only reason you get drafted or even looked at by the NFL is because they believe you can play at the next level ... if they believe I can do that, you know I believe I can do it.

Last time I checked I was able to throw the ball a little bit.

There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up.

You know, I started this process of being a football player and I'm going to make it to the NFL very soon and I plan on finishing that. And by 'finishing that,' I mean that I'm going to go out and be the best that I can be and put everything forth to make that happen.

The speed will increase and the players will be better, but also the players around you will be a lot better. It all cancels itself out.

Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.

I'm always studying. I probably wrote the most papers of any college quarterback.

I don't do too much outside of football during football season, because this is my job and I take it seriously. I don't do too much, don't really go out at all that much, don't eat out or anything, try to stay focused and stay to myself.

I don't want people to say I'm a solid quarterback. I want to be the best, and I'll continually work until I get there.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.