Football Quotes And Sayings From Various Personalities

by allinspiration.com

“Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It’s great to live very comfortably. I’ve been lucky, I’ve had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.”
– Gary Oldman

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

“More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?”
– George Saunders

“Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
– George Will

“I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.”
– Gordon Ramsay

“Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn’t have that experience.”
– Hillary Clinton

“My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.”
– Hillary Clinton

“After all, is football a game or a religion?”
– Howard Cosell

“Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I’m sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that’s important, that’s what leadership‘s all about.”
– Iain Duncan Smith

“Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain’t going to accept nothing but a winner.”
– Ice Cube

“Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.”
– Irwin Shaw

“Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn’t do this out of compassion or guilt. It’s done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.”
– J. C. Watts

“As long as I own this football team and long after I’m gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.”
– Jack K. Cooke

“Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I’d already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.”
– Jack Kemp

“You don’t boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.”
– Jack Kemp

“I don’t play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.”
– James Taylor

“Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.”
– Jeanne Moreau

“You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.”
– Jello Biafra

“Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.”
– Jesse Jackson

“Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?”
– Jim Bouton

“And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don’t have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.”
– Joan Collins

“I’m not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?”
– Joan Jett

“I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas – that’s my favorite of all!”
– Joe Nichols

“Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.”
– Joe Theismann

“Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.”
– John Leonard

“I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There’s great truth in that.”
– John Malkovich

“I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.”
– John Malkovich

“Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.”
– John Steinbeck

“Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.”
– Jonathan Sacks

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