Football Quotes And Sayings From Various Personalities

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collation of some inspiring or funny football quotes and sayings.

“One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.”
– Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they’re better than us.”
– Alex Ferguson

“Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“You can relax more when you’re playing a silly character than when you’re playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the ‘Twilight’ cast. He’s the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn’t him!”
– Anna Kendrick

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.”
– Arnold H. Glasow

“Football is an art, like dancing is an art – but only when it’s well done does it become an art.”
– Arsene Wenger

“If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.”
– Benjamin Carson

“As a kid, I was always mad – just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don’t want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.”
– Beth Ditto

“I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.”
– Bill Nighy

“A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.”
– Bill Shankly

“Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.”
– Bill Shankly

“Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.”
– Bill Shankly

“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.”
– Bill Shankly

“I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.”
– Billie Joe Armstrong

“I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say ‘Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there’.”
– Billy Corgan

“Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.”
– Bjork

“The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It’s part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.”
– Bob Schieffer

“When I’m on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, ’cause that’s who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.”
– Bobby Flay

“But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life… Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.”
– Brett Favre

“I can’t believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football ’cause half of those eight or nine years I don’t even remember.”
– Brett Favre

“I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.”
– Brett Favre

“If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.”
– Brett Favre

“In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I’m enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.”
– Brett Favre

“In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life.”
– Brett Favre

“Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn’t deal with.”
– Brett Favre

“That’s kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that’s hasn’t happened.”
– Brett Favre

“The town, the team, it’s a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don’t have football as an out.”
– Brett Favre

“Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.”
– Brett Favre

“I suppose young people think football is glamorous – soccer – it’s big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.”
– Bryan Ferry

“I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.”
– Carrie Underwood

“So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you’re going to win.”
– Colin Powell

“Without football, my life is worth nothing.”
– Cristiano Ronaldo

“I’m a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.”
– Danny Boyle

“Don’t matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.”
– Darrell Royal

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