Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bear Bryant

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

Bear Bryant

That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

Bear Bryant

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

Bear Bryant

What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.

Bear Bryant

If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"

Bernie Siegel

I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, 'It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.'

Brian Urlacher

I want to be remembered as a championship football player.

Brian Urlacher

I like to think of myself as a regular guy, except I play football for a living. I try not to be an arrogant turd out there.

Brian Urlacher

I love football in the rain. That is what it's all about.

Brian Urlacher

It's freaking football. There are going to be big hits. I don't understand how they can do this after one weekend of hitting. And I can't understand how they can suspend us for it. I think it's a bunch of bull.

Brian Urlacher

You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable.

Brian Jordan

I'm in great shape, back-in-my-football-days shape. I've worked hard to get to this point.

Brian J. White

Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.

Brian Bosworth

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

Brian Bosworth

I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.

Brian Bosworth

Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.

Brian Bosworth

The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.

Brian Bosworth

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

Brian Bosworth

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

James Whistler

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

Lea Michele

I'm five foot three. I don't look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean? I look like I'm 12.

Curtis Sliwa

We hope to get a foot patrol out. For a very small city, Newburgh has some severe and intense problems.

Jeremy Shockey

We didn't want this thing to be a distraction. It was totally under the radar. This is special for me. The organization showed they'd like me to retire with it. We can just toss around the football now and that makes it so much easier.

Charles Bukowski

Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane.

Lovie Smith

We've seen improvement each day. And it shown, he's given us a taste of it each game that he's played lately the last two football games,

We've still got a lot of worked to do. We don't want to be a polished football team in week one, we want to be there at week 10.

Shia LaBeouf

When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.

Abby Wambach

When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.

Barry Switzer

It never changes. Football is a game of repetition, mental and physical. You may try to articulate it a little different, but it's the same thing: Get better players, make fewer mistakes, and drill the fundamentals into your players' heads. The rest of it is a joke. Teams aren't winning because of what they had for breakfast of what some coach said in the locker room.

Barry Sanders

It's probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you're driving too slow. It's not the most pleasant thing.

Barry Sanders

As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.

Barry Sanders

As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.

Barry Sanders

I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.