Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Football.
I played a long time, had a great career up to this point, and can walk away with my head as high as anyone else.
Brett Favre
Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois.(I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)
Albert Camus
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
Don Shula
I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they got through playing. Today's player doesn't.
Steve Largent, March 16, 2004
A winner never whines.
Paul Brown
Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.
John Heisman
My thoughts just before the first real college game of my life: The honor of my race, family and self is at stake. Everyone is expecting me to do big things. I will. My whole body and soul are to be thrown recklessly about the field. Every time the ball is snapped, I will be trying to do more than my part. Fight low, with your eyes open and toward the play. Watch out for crossbucks and reverse end runs. Be on your toes every minute if you expect to make good. (signed) JackTrice was injured in the game (Oct. 6) but doctors missed the severity of his injuries. At 3 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 8, 1923 he died of hemorrhaged lungs and internal bleeding throughout the abdomen.
Jack Trice, letter written by Ja
When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.
Max McGee
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.http://www.barnard.edu/amstud/resources/strenuous/trletter.htm
Theodore Roosevelt, from a lette
That Jim Brown. He says he isn't Superman. What he really means is that Superman isn't Jimmy Brown!
Anon.
I just wrap my arms around the whole backfield and peel 'em one by one until I get to the ball carrier. Him I keep.
Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
John Madden
When in doubt, punt!
I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important
Dick Butkus
Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.
Luke Salisbury
I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.
Deacon Jones
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
Gale Sayers
Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.
Pressbox Maxim
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Tom Landry
Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
