Football Quotes - Page 15

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.

Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.

I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.

I don't care about three years ago - I don't care about two years ago. I don't care about last year. The only thing I care about is this week.

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

I don't like champagne, I don't smoke cigars, I haven't any real jewellery at all, apart from the 8 pieces of gold I picked up at Anfield, the most important relationship at a football club is not between the manager and the chairman, but the players and the fans.

To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they're good looking and some weeks they're not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best looking lady we ended up taking home but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let's have coffee.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.

Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.

If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Life is great, football is better.

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

The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

Like many athletes, I played in college for the chance to play in the pros. In the years since I retired, I've come to realize that the education I got in college was for life. I will have it forever and for that I am incredibly grateful.

I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

Most players don't mind drug testing once they realize they don't have to study for it.

Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.