FOOTBALL QUOTES II

quotations about football

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You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

DAN BIRDWELL

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We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football team right now.

BRUCE COSLET

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If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

BO JACKSON

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The game has changed. You can't go into a ballgame saying, hey, we have a great defense and we'll win 17-10. Those days, I think, are generally over, except if the Ravens play the Jets.

STEVE YOUNG

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Are you ready for some football?
A Monday night party
Yes, sir, this is Hank and my mission is to get this whole thing started
You know helmets crashin', the crowd is psyched
Cause all my rowdy friends are back for Monday night

HANK WILLIAMS, JR.

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The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.

LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON

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Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.

MARY MCGRORY

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In the NFL, 31 players have been arrested just since the Super Bowl. In fact, a lot of teams are switching to the no-huddle offense because players aren't allowed to associate with known felons.

JAY LENO

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College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

ELBERT HUBBARD

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Football is like any other sport. It's pretty hard to do it well. There are 11 opponents paid handsomely on the other side of the ball trying to prevent you from doing what you're attempting to do.

GARION THORNE

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What’s the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

TERRY BRADSHAW

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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

ERMA BOMBECK

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I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

BILL PARCELLS

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I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.

JOE NAMATH

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I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

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Those were the days--
booting a leather football
truer and farther
than you ever expected!

SEAMUS HEANEY

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Speed is not your fastest, but your slowest man. No back can run faster than his interference.

JOCK SUTHERLAND

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I'm a football baby,
Rolling round the field.
I've been passed and fumbled,
Till I don't know what I feel.

IGGY POP

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There have been a lot of coaches with good ball clubs who know the fundamentals and have plenty of discipline but still don't win the game. Then you come to the third ingredient: If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. You've got to love each other. Each player has to be thinking about the next guy and saying to himself: If I don't block that man, Paul is going to get his legs broken. I have to do my job well in order that he can do his. The difference between mediocrity and greatness is the feeling these guys have for each other. Most people call it team spirit. When the players are imbued with that special feeling, you know you've got yourself a winning team.

VINCE LOMBARDI

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The preseason is a cracked and murky crystal ball from which everybody is trying to divine some meaning.

ONE COOL CUSTOMER

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