Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Cosby

When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.

Bill Cosby

My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.

Carl Pohlad

Seldom do we experience the charisma and character of a dynamic personality such as Lou Holtz, the very successful former football coach of Notre Dame. Lou has left his distinctive mark of success everywhere he has coached. Winning Every Day is not just a catchy phrase, but with Coach Holtz, a way of life.

Arsene Wenger

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear. A polar bear.

Arsene Wenger

In England, football is important for everybody.

Arsene Wenger

Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.

Arsene Wenger

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

Arsene Wenger

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

Arsene Wenger

You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.

Arsene Wenger

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

Arsene Wenger

What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.

Arsene Wenger

What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.

Arsene Wenger

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Arsene Wenger

Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

Arsene Wenger

When I arrive at the gates of Heaven the Good Lord will ask ‘what did you do in your life?’ I will respond ‘I tried to win football matches.’ He will say: ‘Are you certain that’s all?’ But, well, that’s the story of my life.

Bertrand Russell

With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious.

Bertrand Russell

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

That was a tough loss. The guys are down about it, but we've got another week to work and North Texas has a good football team.

That was the worst loss physically that we've gone through since the start of varsity football here (in 1993). I haven't been embarrassed here in a long time.

Frank Gifford

That was a major thing that he did. They knew it was better for the future of football by sharing the money equally.

That was a different football team than this year mentally,

That was nothing. This is work. (Today) will be work when we get pads on. When I put pads on in the game (Friday), I hadn't put them on since Jan. 1. It's fun, though. Football is fun.

Jon Gruden

That was a real gut check. Things did not look good for a little while. We made plenty of mistakes, but we were able to hang in there, and that is what I am most proud of this football team.

Pete Carroll

That was a phenomenal night by one guy. I don't want to take anything away from their football team but that guy is an extraordinary player.

That's the lesson in football and in life and everything you do. You can't give up.

Frank Beamer

That's what happens when you start thinking everything's OK, that 'hey, we're a good football team,' ... We were then and we are now. You've got to prove it every week. Certainly, this week we're going to be challenged.

That's what happens when you get Jacob Tamme at tight end. All of a sudden, those other guys don't get quite as many snaps.

That's true of all the teams we have. We are investing more in football, and we want to have a better result in football.

I was really happy with our offense. People say we're a throwing team, and we can run the football.

Ben Roethlisberger

I was probably more nervous before this game than any professional football game I've ever played.

I was really disappointed. We don't see football like that (in the Big 12). Those kids were just completely out of control. ... Louisville wasn't as bad. Virginia Tech was brutal.

I wasn't surprised, we got a good football team. Our kids made up their mind what they wanted to do.

Elliott Sadler

I wasn't really too hot about it in the beginning, but it's grown on me. It's like if there's a football game and the score is 49--3 in the fourth quarter, well, you aren't going to watch it. But if it's 10--10 in the fourth quarter, you're going to pay attention.