Famous Quotes & Sayings

Otto Rehhagel

A football team is really a big family. There's a give and take... but a few are working for their name only. They go the whole week trying to figure out who said something, what they said and where it happened instead of showing that they're big men.

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.

Junior Seau

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

Junior Seau

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

Warren Sapp

I like our whole team. That's the biggest thing about football. It's got to be your whole team. It just can't be one side carrying the other.

Warren Moon

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

Warren Moon

It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

Warren Moon

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

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.

Vincent Tan

Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.

Vincent Tan

I wear sunglasses because of the glare of spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold.

Vince Young

All I have to do is play football now.

Ving Rhames

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

Will Shields

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

Will Poole

I like to sneak a game or two of 'Madden' somewhere in between studying and sleeping; it helps me unwind and get my mind off football for a little bit.

Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

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.

Wayne Rooney

I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning.

Wayne Rooney

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

Wayne Rooney

I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

Wayne Rooney

I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.

Wayne Rooney

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

Wayne Rooney

Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.

Walter Lippmann

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

Wilhelm Reich

If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.

Willie Lanier

There is no way that I could have survived if I had not changed my style of play.

Willie Lanier

Sometimes I do feel a little pressure, but not that much because we play different positions.

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.

Willie McGinest

This group right here is one of the most underrated groups in football. We don’t talk enough about this group. Very smart, they don’t leave the field, they play every single down, and they can cover backs and tight ends out of the backfield. This group is special.

Vinnie Jones

I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.

Vinnie Jones

I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.

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.