Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Favre

I love doing what I do.

Brett Favre

That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.

Brett Favre

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

Brett Favre

I'd write over and over, 'I will not throw into coverage.'

Brett Favre

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

Brett Favre

There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.

Brett Favre

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

Brett Favre

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

Brett Favre

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

Brett Favre

I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

Brandon Marshall

If I wasn't playing football, I'd be a juvenile probation officer.

Brandon Marshall

Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.

Brandon Marshall

Football is easy; I’ve done this since I was a baby. To me, that’s not success. Success to me is being a world changer…I say football is my platform, not my purpose. How can I use my platform to fulfill my purpose? I want people to say that he fulfilled his purpose.

Brandon Jacobs

The stuff I went through at Auburn? It didn't matter anymore. I just wanted to play football.

Brandon Jacobs

I fought as a kid. But football is what kept me out of trouble. You could always fight, whether you're in trouble or not

Brandon Jacobs

I have a soft side that I like people to see. I'm not mean. That's just football. That's just the way you've got to go. You can't go into a game that is that violent and be soft. You can't be that way.

Archie Manning

I wish I’d played my whole career in flag football.

Jeff Mullins

We're here to go to college, ... Even playing football you have to have time management and know why you're where you are.

Ted Forrest

We're happy to have him. He's got a good understanding of the scheme ... plus, he's got a good football mind. He's very intelligent.

The only place for women in football is making the tea at half-time.

Apolo Ohno

I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I was watching short track, and it was obscure, but they looked like superheroes in their tight outfits, and I thought it was amazing. I wanted to do that. I made the national team at 14.

Ben Roethlisberger

I have a great family. I can call them and they don't want to talk just football They want to find out how my day went outside of football.

Ben Roethlisberger

I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships.

Bear Bryant

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

Bear Bryant

If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.

Bear Bryant

They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.

Bear Bryant

Football changes and so do people.

Bear Bryant

Here's a twenty, bury two.

Bear Bryant

People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.

Bear Bryant

I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.

Bear Bryant

It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

Bear Bryant

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

Bear Bryant

Three rules for coaching: 1.) Surround yourself with people who can't live without football. 2.) Recognize winners. They come in all forms. 3.) Have a plan for everything.