Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Landry

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

Tom Landry

Right after the game, say as little as possible.

Tom Landry

First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.

Tom Landry

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

Tom Landry

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.

Tom Landry

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.

Tom Ford

There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park.

Tom Arnold

Hey, Warren, the Raiders signed you to a seven-year deal. I guess Bill Callahan was right - they are the dumbest team in America.

Tom Arnold

I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football.

Todd Helton

I really enjoyed high-school football, but I didn't really enjoy college football. I liked to play the games, but I didn't like the practice. In baseball, I enjoy the practice almost as much as the games.

Tony Gonzalez

I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone.

Tony Gonzalez

Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.

Tony Gonzalez

I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!

Tony Gonzalez

I love football. The games are a pure rush. By the time I'm done playing, I want to be among the best tight ends ever to play the game.

Tony Gonzalez

It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.

Tony Gonzalez

Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.

Steve Sabol

I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments in time. He would look at a woman's face and he would see almost a three-dimensional look even though it was a flat canvas. I thought, well why couldn't we do the same thing with a football play?

Steve Sabol

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull,

Steve Sabol

Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now.

Steve Sabol

If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

Steve Sabol

To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

Steve Sabol

I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.

Steve Sabol

But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.

Steve Sabol

Life is good. Football is better.

Steve Sabol

Life is great, football is better.

Steve Largent

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.

Stella McCartney

More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids.

Spike Dykes

Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.

Spike Dykes

They whipped us like a tied up goat.

Shelley Long

He[Ted Danson] was clearly not a football player, and not only physically. He didn't bring that attitude, that mentality. At the time, there was a [Red Sox] relief pitcher named Bill Lee, the "Spaceman." He was kind of nuts, as we found out a lot of relievers are.

Sergio Ramos

RIP Sir Alfredo Di Stefano. I will never forget each of the shared moments with such a football legend.

Sergio Ramos

If you dont live, eat, breathe, football, then youre not a true football player. You just wear the jersey.

Sergio Aguero

I find it embarrassing when people compare me to Maradona. How can they? There is only one Maradona. People who say this just have no idea, they don't know what they are talking about. Diego was a complete one-off who will never have an equal on the football pitch. No-one, I repeat no-one, could have transformed teams like he did. Maradona was the world's greatest-ever player while I'm just an apprentice.