Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Benson

We intend to present a first-class football team ... all the way to the Super Bowl.

You have to find a hobby, other than football. You have to have an escape. When I go out there, I forget what day of the week it is.

You'll see a better football team. The first two years were truly growing pains for everybody. Sometimes to get to where you want to go, you have to make sacrifices. And sometimes that means doing things differently.

George Foster

You just pray for the best. That's all you can do now. Football is secondary.

Sathya Baba

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

Matt Lauer

Will the Superdome (New Orleans) be ready for football season?

Bill Cowher

Willie's got the one thing we've never had - the speed. For a team that runs the football the way we want to run the football, to have a big-play player back there is a bonus.

Nancy Carroll

We can't forget about the silent tax payer that will never set foot in the facility,

We were very disappointed in the way our special teams played. Those things got us off on the wrong foot and got Virginia State off on a high note, and we never recovered.

We were looking for leverage and speed. Football has become a game of speed, and that's true even on the offensive line.

We can play power football with him down after down, ... He can take that punishment.

We're a little unpredictable right now. We're still Metamora football where we'll run, but we're learning what this offense can do. This is fun.

Paul Tagliabue

Wellington Mara represented the heart and soul of the National Football League. He always ensured that the Giants were one of the premiere franchises in sports, but he kept the interests of the league at the forefront.

We proved to people we can throw the football. We'd practiced it, but we hadn't shown it as much. If people try to gang up on us and stop the run, they're going to give up big plays.

We played hard but we didn't play a good football game tonight.

We played football tonight. We simplified things and talked about being football players and not spectators.

Norv Turner

We played a very good football team. There's a reason why they've won (21) straight here.

We have to show a marked improvement in the next two weeks, in my opinion, throwing the football.

Jerry Kramer

Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap.

Jean Baudrillard

Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupifying the masses

Jay Mohr

Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.

Jay Mohr

Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.

Jay Hernandez

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

Jay Leno

You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network.

Jay Leno

The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.

Jay Leno

In the NFL, 31 players have been arrested just since the Super Bowl. In fact, a lot of teams are switching to the no-huddle offense because players aren't allowed to associate with known felons.

Carles Puyol

There's a special part of Messi's brain allowing him to see the split-second chaos of football in his own personal super slow motion.

Carlo Ancelotti

Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.

Buzz Bissinger

I actually like football a great deal.

Buzz Bissinger

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

Buzz Bissinger

But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

Buzz Bissinger

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

Bum Phillips

The harder we played, the behinder we got.