Football Quotes - Page 78

People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher.

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

And now with Argentina out, they will be on the plane home with France

One or two of their players aren't getting any younger

I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

We might have the worst bunch of guys together we've ever seen as a football team. I don't know what anybody else has, but I'd trade mine with anybody, sight unseen.

You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable.

Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.

I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester.

I know how it goes. Six or seven months ago I was the manager of the year and I was going to be this and that, tactically this and tactically that, and now, because we have lost two world-class players, I am useless. But I accept that.

I do want to play the short ball and I do want to play the long ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about.

There is only one word to describe football and that is 'if only'.

If you don't score you are not going to win a match.

If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.

I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. In so many ways Scholes is my favourite.

I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.

The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.

In New York now, they have Harvey Milk High School for gay students. They don't have much of a football team, but the half-time show . . .

I've learned about the inflation range situation. Obviously with our footballs being inflated to the 12.5-pound range, any deflation would then take us under that specification limit. Knowing that now, in the future we will certainly inflate the footballs above that low level to account for any possible change during the game.

I was out of the country for a period of time but followed everything closely through other people in our organization and we've made the decisions that we felt were right for the football team and we'll continue to do that and be as diligent as we can going forward.

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad.

They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.