Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamal Lewis

I don't watch that much football... I really like to play it.

Jackie Mason

They call it football, but the object of the game is to bash the other guy so hard that he's eventually carried off the field on a stretcher. I can't watch football anymore. My psychiatrist said it's better that way. I used to watch a game, see the players in a huddle - and think they were talking about me.

Jackie Mason

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

Jason McAteer

It all went a bit grape-shaped.

Jason McAteer

Steve McManaman once described Zinedine Zidane as ridiculous. You can't get a higher compliment than that.

Hines Ward

I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.

Hillary Scott

In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!

Hillary Clinton

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

Erma Bombeck

Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

Erma Bombeck

The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.

Erin Heatherton

My favorite memory from school was going to football games with my friends. We always had so much spirit and dressed up to go to the games, even though our team was pretty bad.

Florence King

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

Florence King

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

Fletcher Knebel

To start with, there's the alien accent. "Tree" is the number between two and four. "Jeintz" is the name of the New York professional football team. A "fit" is a bottle measuring seven ounces less than a quart. This exotic tongue has no relationship to any of the approved languages at the United Nations, and is only slightly less difficult to master than Urdu.

Evel Knievel

This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach.

Eugene McCarthy

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Fran Tarkenton

When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.

Forrest Gregg

If I had to put a percentage on it - I'd say not likely.

Forrest Gregg

He made us realize that if the mind was willing, the body can go.

Forrest Gregg

You structure your system to fit him if he's going to be your guy.

Fran Lebowitz

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

George Weah

Football has been good to me. Everyone has their destiny, but you have to make use of the opportunities. I have spent 15 years at the top of my game. It makes me happy. I love the game. I love scoring goals. But I have always taken it seriously. It is not what the game gives you, it is what you give it.

George Santayana

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

George Orwell

So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

Chris Van Allsburg

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.

Chris Kamara

Well done to the lady lineswoman.

Chris Kamara

Barnsley have started off the way they mean to begin.

Fabio Capello

Christiano knows English, Messi knows football

F. Scott Fitzgerald

but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game

George Smoot

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

George Steinbrenner

Winning means everything...You show me a good loser and I'll show a loser.

George Orwell

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

George R. R. Martin

I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.