Football Quotes And Sayings From Various Personalities

by allinspiration.com

“Football doesn’t build character. It eliminates the weak ones.”
– Darrell Royal

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

“American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent’s goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.”
– David Mamet

“One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there’s the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.”
– David Soul

“I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn’t. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people‘s needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.”
– Dee Dee Myers

“It’s quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.”
– Diane Kruger

“When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately – unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.”
– Dick Butkus

“I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people’s faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.”
– Drew Brees

“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.”
– Dwyane Wade

“This ain’t a football game, we do this every day.”
– Earl Weaver

“I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.”
– Ed O’Neill

“Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.”
– Eric Cantona

“Being on stage isn’t so tough compared to the football pitch.”
– Eric Cantona

“Football lost its excitement for me.”
– Eric Cantona

“I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.”
– Eric Cantona

“I stopped playing football because I’d done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.”
– Eric Cantona

“If you have only one passion in life – football – and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.”
– Eric Cantona

“In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.”
– Eric Cantona

“Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.”
– Eric Cantona

“The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.”
– Eric Cantona

“When you arrive in England for football it’s a paradise.”
– Eric Cantona

“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.”
– Fran Lebowitz

“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.”
– Frank Zappa

“I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.”
– Gabrielle Union

“Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that’s it.”
– Gale Sayers

“That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.”
– Garth Brooks

“Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.”
– Gary Lineker

“I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.”
– Gary Neville

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5

Follow this site