Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Holmgren

Listen to what I tell you and do it. If you do, three things can happen: One, it will work and you'll get credit. Two, it won't work and I'll get the blame. Three, you'll do it wrong and you'll be gone.

Peter Temple

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

Peter Kenyon

The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.

Terry Pratchett

Well, yes, but it's not about the football." "You're saying that football is not about football?" "It's the sharing," she said. "It's being part of the crowd. It's chanting together. It's all of it. the whole thing.

Terry Gross

I mean, Dad was one of these people who simply could not lose, you know? He could not stand it when a kid was beating him. He would go crazy when the child came to that moment, which, you know, you have to come to - I mean, Dad played Old Maids like he played football. He just simply had to win every single thing every single time.

Terry Bradshaw

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 always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.

Terry Bradshaw

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

Terry Bradshaw

Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith.

Terry Bradshaw

No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.

Terrell Davis

There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.

Shania Twain

I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.

Sean Harris

When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.

Scott Linehan

It's still about making a good decision. We all want to have the Reggie Bush's of the world on our football team, but it's not reality.

Shannon Sharpe

Tell Ray to put the eyeliner, the lipstick and the high heels away. I'm not saying he's a cross-dresser, that's just what I heard.

Lesley Garrett

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

Lee Majors

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

Lee Majors

I started out wanting to coach football.

Larry Coker

Micheal Barrow and Darrin Smith, those guys were really intelligent. They're smart football players. They'd always be a step ahead of the offense and could predict what was coming. Dan Morgan has that. Jonathan Vilma has that. Ray Lewis has that.

Thomas A. Edison

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

Leigh Steinberg

Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.

Lawrence Taylor

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

Lawrence Taylor

Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'

Kurt Warner

No matter what happens on the football field it doesn't change the kind of person I am.

Pele

Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.

Pele

Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.

Kevin Keegan

Football's always easier when you've got the ball.

Les Miles

I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day!

Junior Seau

I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.

Justin Timberlake

I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

Jimmie Johnson

A losing football team looks at excuses. A championship football team looks at solutions.

John Motson

Ruud Gullit was able to impose his multi-lingual skills on this match.

Johan Cruijff

Football is simple, you're either on time, or you're too late. If you're too late then you have to leave earlier.