Football Quotes - Page 55

The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.

When I was a child I had a dream to become a football player. I always played as I played when I was a child. I tried to improve. I never dreamt of becoming a professional football player, I dreamed just to play with the best players in the best team. I never dreamed to be paid to play. I would have paid to play an FA Cup Final in front of 80,000 people in Wembley. I just tried to play the wonderful game that football is. So, I hope young players will still have this dream.

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means your brain is receiving information from your body what your car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.

No, we believed in ourselves all year. That's the position you want to be in.

I played football with my whole body - My hands, my head, my face. I did it all.

I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.

Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport

I don't know about voodoo, but I believe in destiny.

My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.

My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.

All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.

We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.

Politics is like watching football. Yes, you can see it directly on your screen, but I think a lot of people want to have some understanding of what's happening, why the play is unfolding the way it is, and I think that's where it can help them, not to render judgments but to help people make their own judgments in a more informed way.

I love football and I love winning, and when things aren't going right I get annoyed.

Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.

We didn't win a Super Bowl together, and that's something I'll always regret - not knowing what that feels like. But you and I have won more games together than any quarterback and coach combination in the history of the NFL.

Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.

Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane.

Theres something incredible about putting a helmet on just before a game; its a feeling only a football player knows. Your vision narrows, and the whole world shrinks. You cant hear much of what goes on outside you, but you can hear yourself breathe and you can feel yourself sweat.

I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

I thought I did until I looked at some old game films. (When asked if he played college football)