Football Quotes

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

~ Steve Sabol

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

~ Jack Youngblood

To be a footballer was just a dream, and I don't believe in dreams. I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.

~ Thierry Henry

Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.

~ Junior Seau

You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around.

~ Tom Brady

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

I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.

~ Troy Polamalu

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

~ Brett Favre

In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.

~ Stephen Rodrick

Football is unconditional love.

~ Tom Brady

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

~ Terry Bradshaw

I've always been a fan of football, always watched the NFL and it's great to always sit back wherever I can this year. You sit back and enjoy the games, pop a little sports drink - not any pop or soda - lay back, watch the games. It's always cool to see how the games go down and just enjoy them.

~ Rob Gronkowski

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

~ Ed Helms

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

~ Robert Griffin Iii

I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.

~ Sarah Shahi

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

~ Marcus Samuelsson

I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

~ Matthew Mcconaughey

Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.

~ John Madden

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

~ Danny Boyle

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

~ Frank Gifford

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 like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to describe it... I was an obsessed Brooklyn Dodgers fan. And I think when they left Brooklyn, which was simultaneous with me starting college, everything changed, and I haven't had the same passion for sports.

~ Brian Dennehy

I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.

~ Robert Kennedy

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

~ Novak Djokovic

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

~ Roger Kahn

It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.

~ Lin Dan

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

~ Gerald R. Ford

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

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

~ Howard Cosell

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

~ Taylor Lautner

You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.

~ Sarah Shahi

American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.

~ Noel Gallagher

My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

~ Karisma Kapoor

When I was a kid, I did many sports. Judo, like my dad, but also volleyball, handball, and gymnastics. We never played much football.

~ Robert Lewandowski

My becoming an actor wasn't planned. My interest always lied in sports such as football, martial arts, gymnastics and dance.

~ Tiger Shroff

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

~ Marilyn Monroe

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with the blurb, 'Can Lou Do It?' I'd just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week's coverage.

~ Lou Holtz

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

~ Lou Holtz

I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.

~ Tom Ford