American Football Quotes

We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential. ~ Emmitt Smith

The most prepared are the most dedicated. ~ Raymond Berry

American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though. ~ Noel Gallagher

I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in the zone. ~ Lawrence Taylor

Every team is beatable, you never know. The right moment, the right time, every team is beatable. ~ Tom Coughlin

I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge. ~ Jim Otto

One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you. ~ Tim Tebow

Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move - you don't interrupt. ~ Franz Beckenbauer

I'm an ardent American Football fan. ~ Don King

I'm a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher. ~ Alexander Hanson

Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow. ~ Pat Tillman

There's always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of Florida, for my job with the Denver Broncos, for my position with the New York Jets. And that's the reason to get up earlier or stay up later. ~ Tim Tebow

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing. ~ John Elway

I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body. ~ Dave Barry

Most train to be part of the game. The greatest train to be the game: I am the game. Third-and-9, two-minutes left, that's what I train for. I train for moments everyone runs from. I run for them. ~ Michael Irvin

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets. ~ Sting

I'm a light eater. As soon as it's light, I start to eat. ~ Art Donovan

Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes ... Do they need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no. ~ Michael Wilbon

I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety. ~ Gabriel Luna

Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time. ~ Mike Singletary

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it. ~ John F. Kennedy

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse. ~ Lynn Swann

People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher. ~ Craig Heyward

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football. ~ Albert Camus

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline. ~ Bum Phillips

If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same. ~ Bob Golic

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn. ~ Tom Landry

There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me. ~ Joe Theismann

Anything I do, I always have a reason for. ~ Johnny Unitas

If the Super Bowl is really the ultimate game, why do they play it again next year? ~ Duane Thomas

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

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others. ~ Don Shula

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled. ~ Parminder Nagra

My father was an all-American football player. ~ Edwin Moses

When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players. ~ Abby Wambach

Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass. ~ Terry Crews

If I drop dead tomorrow, at least I'll know I died in good health. ~ Bum Phillips

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party. ~ Sue Lawley

I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage. ~ Joe Theismann

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop. ~ Jack Youngblood

Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. ~ Chuck Knox

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will? ~ Johnny Unitas

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ~ Ambrose Bierce

I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time. ~ Bobby Layne

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach. ~ Amos Alonzo Stagg

...it was perfect. But it was bittersweet too. Because I was running out of time. I wished I could stay in Iran. I wished I could go to school with Sohrab, and play soccer/non-American football every day, though I supposed I would have to start calling it regular football. I wished I could have been born in Yazd. That I could have grown up with Sohrab and Asghar and even Ali-Reza and Hossein. ~ Adib Khorram

Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The contest, for sure, has with [sic] own laws (so that after God and the Devil 'tackle a guy, they don't kick him in the head'), but each side is not above cheating - with God breaking the rules occasionally by throwing in 'a miracle'. Strangely, Mailer doesn't mention Jesus in this agonising analogy, but then the notion of the 'super-sub' may be an image too far even for him. ~ Christopher Hitchens

Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz. ~ Thierry Henry

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger. ~ Tim Tebow

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach. ~ Heywood Broun

Soccer's appeal lay in its opposition to the other popular sports. For children of the sixties, there was something abhorrent about enrolling kids in American football, a game where violence wasn't just incidental but inherent. They didn't want to teach the acceptability of violence, let alone subject their precious children to the risk of physical maiming. Baseball, where each batter must stand center stage four or five times a game, entailed too many stressful, potentially ego-deflating encounters. Basketball, before Larry Bird's prime, still had the taint of the ghetto.
But soccer represented something very different. It was a tabula rasa, a sport onto which a generation of parents could project their values. Quickly, soccer came to represent the fundamental tenets of yuppie parenting, the spirit of Sesame Street and Dr. Benjamin Spock. ~ Franklin Foer

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time. ~ Max McGee

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

Lifting weights is obviously important, because you want to be strong and fast and all of that, but it's not one of those things you gotta go and try to bench as much as you can every day. A bench press isn't going to help you throw a 15-yard out or a deep comeback. It's not about that. It's about training right. ~ Mark Sanchez

Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~ George F. Will

I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me. ~ Anna Quindlen

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room. ~ Junior Seau

Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo. ~ Tony Kornheiser

I'm a friend in the context that we helped fight a battle together for survival of the American Football League. But I don't consider myself close to Al in recent years. You just don't continually sue your business partners like he has. ~ Lamar Hunt

I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans. ~ Greg Kinnear

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out. ~ Lawrence Taylor

The sex act is emotionally the richest and the most imaginatively charged event in our lives, comparable only to the embrace of our children as a source of affection and mystery. But no kinaesthetic language has yet been devised to describe it in detail, and without one we are in the position of an unqualified observer viewing an operation for brain surgery. Ballet, gymnastics, American football and judo are furnished with elaborate kinaesthetic languages, but it's still easier to describe the tango or the cockpit take-off procedures for a 747 than to recount in detail an act of love. ~ J.G. Ballard

Detroit's so bad this year they might lose their bye week. ~ Dennis Miller

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. ~ Don Shula

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East. ~ David Mamet

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. ~ Roger Staubach

Not only does he have the NFC East record for touchdowns, but also the team record. ~ Emmitt Smith

It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time. ~ Mal Peet

After a loss like this we just have to go back and work harder. We got outplayed and that's all there is to it. You have to let it go, move on and just work harder. ~ Peyton Manning

It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that's all that really matters to me. ~ Marshawn Lynch

I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals. ~ Andrew Luck

I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming. ~ Chad Harbach

I knew soccer/non-American football jerseys weren't cheap. Sohrab could have used that money on some new cleats for himself, but he had gotten me the jersey instead. "Are you okay, Darioush?" "Yeah. Yeah." I blinked some more. "It's just really, really nice." It made me feel like I belonged. ~ Adib Khorram

You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday. ~ Tom Brady

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. ~ Eugene McCarthy

Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be. ~ Mike Ditka

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere. ~ Vince Lombardi

[American football] fanbase resemble that of contemporary boxing: rich people watching poor people play a game they would never play themselves. ~ Chuck Klosterman

We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now. ~ Troy Vincent

The only way to stop Jim Brown was to give him a movie contract. ~ Carl "Spider" Lockhart

I'd catch a punt naked, in the snow, in Buffalo, for a chance to play in the NFL. ~ Steve Henderson

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team. ~ Mike Singletary

Football kickers are like taxi cabs. You can always go out and hire another one. ~ Buddy Ryan

If you look at our records, I stood up to corporate America time and time again. I went to Mexico. I saw the lives of people who were working in American factories and making $0.25 an hour. ~ Bernie Sanders

I would have skipped the following day if I could have. I ddin't even like Disney World. I was, in fact, slightly afraid of it. When Khrushchev visited Disneyland in 1959, he wasn't allowed in. It was said that the American authorities couldn't guarantee his safety inside. And whatever else Khrushchev was, I would have backed him against an infantry division. ~ Austin Grossman

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant. ~ Conor Oberst

Without fans who pay at the turnstile, football is nothing. Sometimes we are inclined to forget that. The only chance of bringing them into stadiums is if they are entertained by what happens on the football field. ~ Jock Stein

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house. ~ Martin Scorsese

They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery. It's a very, very small section in the history books. It's not something they really touch on directly with American curriculums. ~ Aldis Hodge

Melinda was still stuck on the 24 thing. "And I don't see you grabbing the remote away from me when that countdown clock starts chiming," she said to Pete. "Unless it's to get a quick check of the scores on Monday nights."

Nick's ears perked up at the mention of scores. Sports. Now there was a topic upon which he could wax poetic. "Too bad Monday night football is over," he lamented to Pete. "But there's always basketball. Who are you eying for the Final Four?"

Pete looked mildly embarrassed as he gestured to Melinda. "She's, um, referring to the scores on Dancing with the Stars."

"He likes it when they do the paso doblé," Melinda threw in.

"The dance symbolizes the drama, artistry, and passion of a bullfight. It's quite masculine," Pete said.

"Except for the sequins and spray tans," Melinda added.

Pete clapped his hands together, ignoring this. "How about you, Nick? Are you a fan of the reality television performing arts? ~ Julie James

What has changed in modern times, however, is that the media, the so-called fourth estate made up of America's best and brightest journalists, are no longer trusted.
Sadly that leaves the American people with no one to rely on: not the politicians; not the media.
Nature may abhor a vacuum, but political systems abhor a vacuum of trust even more. If we don't find someone to fill it, someone who can unify the country behind the truth, then that vacuum will be filled for us. ~ Glenn Beck

We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven't been addressed, and I'd like to stand with them. Also, I'd like to get their views on immigration. ~ Al Franken

I'm surprised you haven't come to hate humans," Rose said with hesitation. "I mean, given all that happened to you here. I'm pretty sure assimilating wasn't easy either. You have a sort of foreign look for an American, and Americans are notorious for their xenophobia."

Zita laughed softly. "Me? Hate humans?" She darkly shook her head. "I fought in the Midnight War for thirty years, Rosie. I know what happens when people let hate make decisions for them. ~ Ash Gray

I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for myself. Not in self-pity, but for the kid who'd come to Iraq. He was gone. I did all this in the dark, away from the platoon, because combat command is the loneliest job in the world. ~ Nathaniel Fick

I knew Arizona's SB 1070 would be controversial when I introduced it, but I did not expect the national immigration debate to revolve around a state law. While the anti-American open-borders Left attack me and the law as 'racist,' 'nativist' and their other empty smear words, the vast majority of the people of Arizona and America support the law. ~ Russell Pearce

It's probably been the worst three months of my life. ~ Steven Gerrard

Caterham realises corporate America and the American consumer market ... is the largest consumer market in the world and it is something that needs to be part of Formula One. ~ Alexander Rossi

Whoa, what is this? Battle of the Sarcastic and Pissed? Should I make popcorn? Forget American Idol, man. This is much more entertaining. (Kish) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness. ~ Pete Gill