Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Vinnie Jones

I got into moisturiser when I played football. If you're out in all weathers you have to take care of your face.

Vinnie Jones

Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.

Vinnie Jones

Over the years, I've had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don't think I look intimidating, but I'm sure other people have their opinions.

Woody Hayes

I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.

Woody Hayes

The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt—and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.

Woody Hayes

The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.

Woody Hayes

In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves. And that's what people have to do, too-make sure they don't beat themselves.

Woody Hayes

The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.

Woody Hayes

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

Woody Hayes

I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him.

Woody Hayes

Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers or people who didn't bother to play.

Woody Hayes

There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.

Woody Hayes

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

William Gallas

Oh I'm sorry - I don't follow football.

Sarah Silverman

Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture of me. The juxtaposition was meant to illustrate two meanings of "offensive." Seriously. It broke my heart. It's that accepted what I do is offensive?

Richard M. Nixon

I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked.

River Phoenix

I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.

Trevor Phillips

Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a disease of the uneducated, unenlightened and socially backward - football hooligans, British National Party supporters, policemen. You could call this the Bad Guy Theory. But the Bad Guy Theory does not explain why Indian-heritage children do nearly twice as well as Pakistani-heritage children at GCSE.

Verne Lundquist

There is no one quite as popular in any form of football as the backup QB.

Verne Lundquist

I get asked about the best games I've called, and as far as college football goes, the Florida-LSU environment was as good as I've ever been around. I had always heard about night games at Tiger Stadium and had never gotten the chance to call one. It was really special to be a part of that and then the game, my gosh, how can anybody ever forget that. The fourth quarter and LSU's final drive, that's something I'll always remember.

Vance Joy

It wasn't professional, but it was a few levels below the top level. I loved playing football, but my passion was always music. It didn't become a possibility to me until I started playing songs I thought were good. I think it happened during my third song. The dream to become a musician appeared in my heart, and that happened one day.

Robert M. Hutchins

Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

Robert M. Hutchins

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

Roger Goodell

I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare.

Roger Goodell

My job is to protect the integrity of the NFL and to make sure the game is as safe as possible.

Roger Goodell

The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.

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.