Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.

Neil Gaiman

Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.

John O. Brennan

A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.

John Toshack

Winning all the time is not necessarily good.

John Toshack

I don't like champagne, I don't smoke cigars, I haven't any real jewellery at all, apart from the 8 pieces of gold I picked up at Anfield, the most important relationship at a football club is not between the manager and the chairman, but the players and the fans.

John Terry

The manager could not even talk to us at the interval. He said we were bad.

John Steinbeck

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers...

John Steinbeck

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

Terrell Owens

I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game.

Terrell Owens

I had my family before I played football.

Terrell Owens

When I was a kid, I'd watch pro football on TV and I'd see someone make a play and I'd say, 'I wish that could be me.' But then I'd have to wonder, 'Could I make that big play?'

Terrell Owens

God blessed me to play football.

Terrell Owens

I don't have to play football.

Terrell Owens

I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.

Terrell Owens

I'm going to have my family after I play football.

Ted Thompson

I've always been connected to football, but for some reason, there's never been a connection.

Theodore Roosevelt

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

Theodore Roosevelt

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

Theodore Hesburgh

There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.

Theodore Dreiser

Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.

Theo Walcott

I've been consistent in patches this season.

Theo Walcott

If you're not frustrated that you're not playing football then you shouldn't be playing football

Terry Pratchett

Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time)

Marcus Allen

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

Marcus Allen

But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

Michael Lewis

The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

Melissa McCarthy

To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys.

Melissa McCarthy

I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.

Michael Strahan

My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'

Michael Strahan

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

Michael Strahan

When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!

Michael Strahan

That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!

Michael Owen

I don't particularly enjoy watching international football in the way that I used to. It hurts me to say that, but it's true.