Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.
Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.
Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.
Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.
What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
Everything I do I always feel very confident. Whether it's tennis, badminton, football, whatever. I just go out there and think I can do it and most of the time I can. What I'm good at I don't mind saying because it's not a secret, is it? For me confidence is so important. It's good to know I can go out on the field and feel I can take on the world.
I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.
For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.
The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.
It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
When I look in the mirror in the morning, I want to take a swing at me.
Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.
You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.
Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.
I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.
I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.
Chelsea are not made to play football. We're good on the counter, a little bit like Real against Bayern.
Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks, too. But we're gonna fool them.
Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver.
Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.
If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace
