Football Quotes - Page 20

Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.

Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.

Losing is not in my vocabulary.

Football really was my salvation in high school. For some kids it's art. For some it's music. For me, it was strapping on those pads, yanking that helmet over my head, and getting out there with the team.

Expect rejection, but expect even more strongly to overcome it.

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

I'm going to scare a lot of kids Thursday night.

A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate.

If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside.

Football is for the fans. It can be the greatest game in the world but if there are no people to watch it, it becomes nothing. The fans are the lifeblood of the game.

Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens, reserved large areas for football, hockey and parks. Earmark areas for Hindu temples, Mohammedan mosques and Christian churches.

He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim -- but there's always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.

Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.

That boy could throw a ball through a car wash and not get it wet. (on Warren Moon)

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

I think everyone should pursue their dreams. Whether you want to play football, act, sing, become a writer or whatever you have burning inside you as you’re growing up, you should pursue it.

It's too easy to blame other people in football.

I had this urge to play the game of football because so many people said I couldn't do it.

Pressue is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.