Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irwin Shaw

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

Jack Nicklaus

I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.

Jack Nicklaus

When I look back on when I grew up, not even football players lifted weights. That was back 50 years ago.

Jack Nicholson

I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread.

Jack Kent Cooke

As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.

Jack Kemp

I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.

Jack Kemp

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Jack Kemp

You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

Most people know more about professional poker players than football players. It's amazing.

Youri Djorkaeff

Mo guaranteed me some new players, and a kind of football, more offensive. He didn't guarantee me victory, but to try, it was very important to me.

Mt. Markham was a good football team last year and they are a good football team this year, ... I know they lost their big back from last year but this was a good test. Next up is Richfield and they are another good team. They played us tough last year at their place.

Joe King

Me and the team want to win the state championship. We want to go undefeated this year and show the state what Southside football is all about.

Alex Wood

One person is kind of running it, but we all have great ideas and know as much football as the other guy. It's been interesting.

Joe Hamilton

Obviously you never prepare for just one person, but when you play a team like Hopewell that has so many weapons, it makes things that much more difficult, ... They can hurt you in a variety of ways. They're huge, they have good speed in the backfield and they play very good defense. Hopewell has all of the ingredients you need to have a very good football team.

Dan Marino

Of course, in the end, every quarterback wants one more Sunday with a football in his hands and going deep,

Dick Vermeil

I think they've demonstrated that they are a playoff-caliber football team. We just didn't get some things done that we had to get done at the time we needed to get them done.

Dick Vermeil

I think they've demonstrated that they are a playoff-caliber football team.

I think these people are appreciating that we are playing good football.

I think there's a rivalry. They're a good football team. We can get better. This was the first of many battles.

Just getting kids interested in football here is a job in itself. We get 50 freshmen, and all of them want to play basketball.

Just being around him when we were growing up, Vestal football was such a big part of our life from the time I can remember,

Kyle's very intelligent, very football smart. He's willing to learn about the upcoming defenses as an offensive player. He's a good kid and works hard.

Larry knows how to find the football. He might not make a lot of big plays, but that's not what he's called upon to do. He just doesn't make mistakes. He's always where he needs to be. He's a true linebacker.

Jim Nantz

I think football is a more interesting 'watch' on television than in the arena. Every year, we tweak the information we give fans. We give information you can never get at the stadium.

Mike Minter

I said, 'Look, Thomas, the great thing about football is there's always next Sunday,

John Callahan

People have got to realize that we have had a lot of injuries and this is a school of 140 kids. When we have everybody, we're a pretty good football team. But suffering injuries and having people step up are part of the game.

Dirk Koetter

Spring football is a two-way street. You don't want guys that are going to be out long term and have to have surgery, but yet, you've got to protect some guys, too.

Terence Newman

some of the same things on the football field.

Mark Robson

Some of the lads are unhappy that they might not be getting as much football as they want but it is a long season and everyone will get their chance.

(That building) might not be here when we come back, but we'll make sure we can play football.

Mark Brunell

That allows me to put things in perspective, knowing I've got some priorities in my life. At the top is my relationship with God, and then my relationship with my wife and kids, and football's down there around three or four. Knowing that helps me be a good football player.

My neighborhood was like 'The Wonder Years.' We played until 10 o'clock at night. We used to tell scary stories. I was the one scaring them. We used to play football by this place called the Myer's House. It was a big, spooky house with the gables; we'd hang out there and scare each other.

Myron ought to be getting ready for the junior-senior prom, but he's out here trying to become a better football player. And he has done that.