Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Temple

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

Peter Kenyon

The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.

Terry Pratchett

Well, yes, but it's not about the football." "You're saying that football is not about football?" "It's the sharing," she said. "It's being part of the crowd. It's chanting together. It's all of it. the whole thing.

Terry Crews

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

Terry Gross

I mean, Dad was one of these people who simply could not lose, you know? He could not stand it when a kid was beating him. He would go crazy when the child came to that moment, which, you know, you have to come to - I mean, Dad played Old Maids like he played football. He just simply had to win every single thing every single time.

Terry Bradshaw

There really has been only one thing in my life that has made me feel complete, and that is the game of football. The ability to throw a football was my God-given talent. That was my blessing and my passion; that was my calling in live, and everything that I've accomplished has derived from that.

Terry Bradshaw

Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride.

Terry Bradshaw

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

Terry Bradshaw

Fans are fans. I hated and loved them, hated and loved them, hated and loved them.

Terry Bradshaw

The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

Terry Bradshaw

Ride it when you retire.

Terry Bradshaw

I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.

Terry Bradshaw

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

Terry Bradshaw

Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith.

Terry Bradshaw

No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.

Terrell Davis

There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.

Tedy Bruschi

I'm a football player by trade. That's what I do, ... So I did everything I could to make myself a football player again.

Shania Twain

I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.

Sean Harris

When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.

Scott Linehan

It's still about making a good decision. We all want to have the Reggie Bush's of the world on our football team, but it's not reality.

Shannon Sharpe

Tell Ray to put the eyeliner, the lipstick and the high heels away. I'm not saying he's a cross-dresser, that's just what I heard.

Lesley Garrett

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

Lee Majors

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

Lee Majors

I started out wanting to coach football.

Larry Coker

Micheal Barrow and Darrin Smith, those guys were really intelligent. They're smart football players. They'd always be a step ahead of the offense and could predict what was coming. Dan Morgan has that. Jonathan Vilma has that. Ray Lewis has that.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I'm passionate about the game of football.

Neil Lennon

As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill [at Leicester and Celtic] and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life.

Marcello Lippi

To this day I am not convinced of having brought together with me in Germany the technically best players that could have been. But I was firmly convinced I called the ones that could create a team, and they could play with one another to the best of their possibility. In this day and age you win if you become a team. It doesn't necessarily mean that you've got to have the best football players in the country. It's possible that the best, all together, don't become a team. It's like a mosaic, you have to put all the pieces together.

Marc Trestman

Football became my obvious metaphor as it does for many, and I began to equate this as being 'halftime' in my life. As I reflected on my professional life I realized how much time I had spent trying to make first downs and score touchdowns. My focus had now changed into trying to be more about people and serving others.

Thomas A. Edison

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

Simeon Rice

I approach football like a street-ball game, like I'm playing with the fellas in the yard.

Sidney Crosby

It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

Sidney Crosby

Growing up in Canada, I didn't watch football much.