Football Quotes - Page 3

Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations.

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.

I was reminded of another very special word when I was driving into Ann Arbor this morning, and that word is homecoming. Our family's had three homecomings to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in my lifetime.

I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in general. The first time I was a bridesmaid, to my auntie, I refused to go down the aisle without my football shorts underneath my dress.

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.

Loyalty doesn't seem to be in the game that much these days where players leave their clubs which made them the stars they are today either to seek personal glory or fill their pockets. But one man serves as the epitome of club loyalty.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.