Football Quotes - Page 60

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.

To start with, there's the alien accent. "Tree" is the number between two and four. "Jeintz" is the name of the New York professional football team. A "fit" is a bottle measuring seven ounces less than a quart. This exotic tongue has no relationship to any of the approved languages at the United Nations, and is only slightly less difficult to master than Urdu.

If you come from Spain, you have to play football.

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football. This fella Ronaldo is a cod.

All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

If the Super Bowl is really the ultimate game, why do they play it again next year?

We all understand what we signed up for, but then again, you don't want this to be a game that puts people in wheelchairs at age 40.

I was brought here [New Orleans] for a reason. I feel like I can make a tremendous impact, not only with the team but in the community.

Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!'' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.

I love to see my records broken, I really do, you get a chance to relive your life, the whole experience.

I love that red wine is good for you. Isn't that cool? I want to hear more of this. I want to hear more things in life like, Red wine, in conjunction with a lap dance, while watching NFL football, is the best cardiovascular workout you can have.

He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical.

Football can generate excitement and bring people together.

I feel like I was drafted to play football, not carry another player's pads.

You'll find your life greatly simplified if you only worry about stuff you can fix.

There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game.

I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans

I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you're not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms.

Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football during a head-on collision, pain in other sports on the occasion of a serious injury. That was more the threat of pain; in rowing there was the absolute guarantee of it every time.

The ball has broken 50-50 for Keegan

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.