Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Beamer

He has a great knack of getting on to the next play, ... As soon as it's over, he's disappointed. Now, he's ready to try and win the football game for us.

Sven Eriksson

He had to pull out unfortunately. They took a scan of his foot and he has a stress fracture. He's probably out for a month at least.

Brian Dawkins

He hasn't mentioned anything other than football since we've been here. If you don't get involved in it with the press, you'd have no idea what was going on.

He hurt his meniscus during football and he said he thinks it's the same thing. I thought we were in trouble. He's an awfully good player.

LaDainian Tomlinson

He has played well. Kirk is a product of hard work. He knows what that is all about; working hard to get on the football field.

Jim Haslett

He is a great football player and I feel sorry for him personally because he worked really hard this season to get to this point. He means a lot to this team and the players like him.

He got the football and did what he was supposed to do.

He got out of the sled and started hobbling over. The second I saw him limping I got concerned. I looked down, saw his foot and said, 'Did I do that?' He said, 'I need a medic.' From that point, we knew it was a serious problem.

He'd obviously been there a long time and whatever he was surviving on wasn't giving him that much nutrition. (He is) a big tall man, six foot two, six foot three, and he was just a walking skeleton basically.

Willie Lanier

We had the kind of team that didn't back down from anybody. If they wanted to intimidate us, we could intimidate as well as they could. Our team was too big and too good to intimidate.

Willie Lanier

My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.

Vinnie Jones

Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.

Vinnie Jones

I got into moisturiser when I played football. If you're out in all weathers you have to take care of your face.

Vinnie Jones

Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.

Vinnie Jones

Over the years, I've had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don't think I look intimidating, but I'm sure other people have their opinions.

Woody Hayes

I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.

Woody Hayes

The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt—and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.

Woody Hayes

The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.

Woody Hayes

In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves. And that's what people have to do, too-make sure they don't beat themselves.

Woody Hayes

The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.

Woody Hayes

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

Woody Hayes

I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him.

Woody Hayes

Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers or people who didn't bother to play.

Woody Hayes

There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.

Woody Hayes

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

William Gallas

Oh I'm sorry - I don't follow football.

Sarah Silverman

Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture of me. The juxtaposition was meant to illustrate two meanings of "offensive." Seriously. It broke my heart. It's that accepted what I do is offensive?

Richard M. Nixon

I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked.

River Phoenix

I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.

Trevor Phillips

Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a disease of the uneducated, unenlightened and socially backward - football hooligans, British National Party supporters, policemen. You could call this the Bad Guy Theory. But the Bad Guy Theory does not explain why Indian-heritage children do nearly twice as well as Pakistani-heritage children at GCSE.

Verne Lundquist

There is no one quite as popular in any form of football as the backup QB.

Sandra Bernhard

Barbara Bush has her finger on the pulse of America. Im so glad shes back and more compassionate than ever, ... Thats right, of course people just sat around New Orleans, boring, uninspired, soulless New Orleans, and dreamed of someday relocating to the Astrodome. Oh, dear Lord, if only I could leave my unhappy existence and head on up to wonderful Houston and live with my friends side by side in a spacious football stadium, my life would be so much richer and complete.

Wayne Wonder

People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.