Football Quotes

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Ronnie Lott

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

Herschel Walker

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Duffy Daugherty

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.1996, on coach Bill Walsh

Joe Theismann, source not found

People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.

Don DeLillo

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Ambrose Bierce

There is a progression of understanding vis-?-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its national pastime pedestal in less than fifteen years.

Hunter S. Thompson

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

Walter Payton

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

Vince Lombardi

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 people try to find things in this game that don't exist; but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

Vince Lombardi

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Jimmy Breslin

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

Tom Landry

Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Vince Lombardi

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Vince Lombardi

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up -- from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's OK You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

Vince Lombardi