Football Stadiums Quotes

One of the most universal numbing strategies is what I call crazy-busy. I often say that when they start having twelve-step meetings for busy-aholics, they'll need to rent out football stadiums. We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us. ~ Brene Brown

Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose. ~ David Pleat

I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships. ~ Ben Roethlisberger

The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live. ~ Boomer Esiason

I am a football fan, yeah. ~ Joe Namath

Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd. ~ Johan Cruijff

I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock. ~ Paul Newman

I want your womanizing mama's-boy football-player butt all to myself and if I catch you with any Twinkies or beautify queens or anyone else, you'd better run fast because I will hunt you down. ~ K.A. Tucker

Al journalism should be investigative, from football to cookery ~ John Pilger

And so it went in football. The game attracted the very people most likely to get in trouble outside ~ Michael Lewis

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

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. ~ Novak Djokovic

And then there was Johan Cruyff, who at 35 has added a whole new meaning to the word Anno Domini. ~ Archie Macpherson

Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football. ~ Vicente Del Bosque

I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too. ~ Gary Lineker

You're on your own out there with ten mates. ~ Michael Owen

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition. ~ Emmanuelle Beart

At 1:00 a.m., they were in the Welsh pub again, having drinks and talking opera and football. ~ John Grisham

When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh. ~ Sarah Dessen

I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try. ~ Fernando Torres

People who are following their dreams inspire me. I train at this relatively new gym in West Hollywood called Training Mate. It's owned by a former Australian football player named Luke Milton. The classes are mostly taught by other Australians that are just like Luke: fit, funny, cute, and approachable. Now they're talking about opening another location. He will open another location and be successful because he's following his dream. People like him inspire me because they make me think I can do it too. ~ Dayna Devon

When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I didn't have, and I could order this environment in the way that I couldn't in my actual life. Then, when I learned to write, I learned that I could do this not only for myself, but for other people. I could create whole things that were believable, at least to myself, at that point. And in this way, I began to wield an authority and a power that I had not had before. In other words, every child goes through this. Some pick football and some pick the library. I picked the library. ~ Donald Richie

No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds. ~ Robert Griffin III

You don't want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full. ~ Jason Aldean

What the hell happened to your leg?" Ang asked him.
Matt looked down at his shin, which was scraped and oozing and seemed to be caked in mud. "Crashed."
"Crashed what?" Ang asked.
"My mountain bike. We just got back."
"You crashed, then what? Rolled in dirt?"
He laughed. "Something like that actually. It's not a successful ride if you don't bleed." He must not have noticed the look of horror on my face, because he asked, suddenly enthusiastic, "You guys ride?"Angelo and I just looked at each other, and he seemed to realize that was a "no." "Too bad. Well, make yourselves at home. Beer's in the fridge. I have to get cleaned up. Kickoff's in ten minutes."
"Football?" Angelo asked.
Matt looked at his as if he had just asked if the sky was really blue. "Yeah! First game of the regular season!" We just stared blankly at him, and he just laughed and disappeared down the hall.
Angelo looked at me with a smile on his face. "Four fags watchin' football. Must be pretty fuckin' cold in hell right now. ~ Marie Sexton

You are one of a kind, one in a billion, an incredible unique individual. The problem is, so is everybody else. ~ Deacon Jones

Love of sports will always break your heart, but in doing so, it reminds us we have one. ~ Stuart Stevens

He was the football star. I was the angry girl with a massive chip on her shoulder and my middle finger stuck up in the air at the world." ~ Belle ~ Jessie Lane

Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches. ~ Ronnie Lott

People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do. ~ Tony Dungy

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns. ~ Ron Atkinson

Even though people involved in racing think that it has a big sporting stage, it is a minority sport compared to some of the other high-profile events: football, Formula One or golf. ~ Tony McCoy

You watch pro ball and those guys spend so much time with their hands on each other's rear ends, you'd think they were feeling for diamonds or something. ~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do. ~ Thierry Henry

All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was. ~ Lawrence Taylor

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not. ~ Ricky Williams

A peep, peep, peep, another peep, and that's it. ~ Barry Davies

The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point. ~ Fernando Torres

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years. ~ Ronald Reagan

I hope Stoke stay up this season, and stay up for long enough so that they can get enough money and buy some footballers. ~ Mick Dennis

I can never hope to find words to express my feelings at becoming a member of the Celtic Football Club. ~ Sean Fallon

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's? ~ Rush Limbaugh

Thought like that showed me the needless ambiguity of words like space-time. The average person heard a word like that and figured he'd never understand it. But it was so simple. Every place you ever saw was linked to a specific time ... the school you visited twenty years after you graduated, the football field you played on, the track you ran -- none of them was the same. If they were, you would collide with the generations that had run on them before and after you. The lover you kissed was not the same person he or she was sixty seconds before. In that minute, a million skin cells had died and been replaced by new ones. The smallest slices of space-time separated thought from action Life from death. ~ Greg Iles

I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life ... The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training. ~ Gabe Jennings

We always looked forward to playing Aston Villa to hear him mangle Ugo Ehiogu's name. "Make sure you pick up Ehugu, Ehogy, whatever his name is." ~ Gary Neville

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad. ~ Ian Botham

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them. ~ Jose Mourinho