Funny Football Team Quotes

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing. ~ Bill Shankly

Germany are a very difficult team to play ... they have eleven internationals out there today. ~ Steve Lomas

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

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team. ~ Eric Cantona

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

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

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

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know. ~ Jimmy Breslin

No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team. ~ Al Davis

I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team. ~ Wayne Knight

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team. ~ Paul Newman

Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be. ~ Stephen Fry

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful ~ Arsene Wenger

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

Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses
they tie
who cares? And why? ~ Edward Abbey

My fantasy football team got mixed up in another fantasy and now they're stuck on a pirate ship with a chick in a Catwoman suit. ~ Dana Gould

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

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt. ~ Vince Flynn

There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team. ~ Taylor Swift

Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team. ~ Fernando Torres

Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more. ~ Alex Ferguson

Without a healthy team spirit you won't get anywhere in football. ~ Berti Vogts

You would not want me on your football team. ~ Seth MacFarlane

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

I think you can learn lots of skills playing football. Team building is one. You also learn how to solve problems within your team. Sometimes you find yourself playing with players that you don't necessarily like, but you have to put your differences aside for the good of the team. It gives you skills that you may not appreciate at the time. ~ Hope Powell

The running backs are the strengths of their football team. They have quality players who can do a number of things for their team. ~ Greg Schiano

Analysts say Obama's new immigration plan will focus on deporting violent criminals. So, this could impact your fantasy football team. ~ Conan O'Brien

The main reason for doing it now had more to do with the players. This is a great group. This particular group has really worked hard to prepare themselves. And we have a chance to have a good football team. ~ LaVell Edwards

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries. ~ Art Modell

If you're going to support a football team, do it 100 per cent. ~ Sean Bean

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones. ~ Lou Holtz

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

A football team represents a way of being, a culture. ~ Michel Patini

Everything to me is about team football, and if we keep winning Super Bowl trophies, I'll be fine. ~ Justin Tuck

Talking of first times Stephanie, I bet your first time was really memorable for you and the captain ot the football team .. and the basketball team .. and the softball team, the track team, the chess club and the pool boy! ~ Chris Jericho

Fantasy football is actually an amazing American pastime, because it takes the ultimate team sport, NFL and football, and turns it into the quest for individual achievement. ~ Jeff Schaffer

The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work. ~ Knute Rockne

First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team. ~ Earl Campbell

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team. ~ Chuck Noll

I like our whole team. That's the biggest thing about football. It's got to be your whole team. It just can't be one side carrying the other. ~ Warren Sapp

A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit. ~ Pele

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization ... ~ Vince Lombardi

We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now. ~ Linda McCartney

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

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here. ~ Leigh Steinberg

For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities. ~ Joe Greene

I consider myself a leader of this football team, along with a lot of other guys. ~ Philip Rivers

I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for. ~ Paul Tagliabue

People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative. ~ Martina Navratilova

When you play a team with as much attacking power as Barcelona and you restrict them to one shot on target in the second leg, you are doing something right. Have the best football team gone through? Yes. Have the best organised team gone through? No. ~ Jamie Redknapp

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best. ~ Alan Shearer

In my first season I was learning about English football in a new team. I scored 13 which isn't bad, but I think I can do better. ~ Luis Garcia

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

There are lots of positives to come out of playing all sports, not just football. Team games can offer you different life skills than an individual sport can. Football improves your time management - you have to be places on time and disciplined in terms of training. ~ Hope Powell

I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school into college in the intramurals and I loved it. There was nothing like a team. ~ Tom Watson

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

The Cincinnati Bengals look like the most complete team in the National Football League. I can't wait to see how they match up against New England. ~ Sterling Sharpe

My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day. ~ Mo Rocca

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

My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player. ~ Jacob Latimore

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days. ~ Rubin Carter

I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players. ~ Pele

I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain. ~ Parker Young

A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional. ~ Emmanuel Petit

In New York now, they have Harvey Milk High School for gay students. They don't have much of a football team, but the half-time show ... ~ Bill Maher

We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we're the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down. ~ D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country. ~ Wayne Rooney

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased ~ Bertrand Russell

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football! ~ John Madden

Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on. ~ Vinnie Jones

An independent Brooklyn probably would have built a new stadium for the Dodgers, so today there might be not just baseball but also the only football team on this side of the Hudson. ~ Pete Hamill

It was the proudest moment of my career to lead my team out at the home of English football. I never, ever dreamt that would happen! ~ Casey Stoney

Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film. ~ Jake Owen

I think the locker room is a huge part of the football team and often is a part thats overlooked. The chemistry in your locker room has a lot to do with how youre going to go out there and perform. ~ Larry Fitzgerald

Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team. ~ Gene Simmons

Governments have supported airlines as if they were local football teams. But there are just too many of them. This is the only industry I know that has lost money consistently and makes money infrequently. ~ Richard L. Hanna

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

A great football team is the right balance and the right mixture of players. Good leaders, good communicators and good technicians. You need people that are strategically astute. People need passion, desire and most importantly, a willingness to keep learning. ~ Hope Powell

Andrew is an integral part of the team and he is staying at my football club. The reality is I need him to score the goals that will get us promoted. ~ Simon Jordan

It's still about making a good decision. We all want to have the Reggie Bush's of the world on our football team, but it's not reality. ~ Scott Linehan

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club) ~ Roman Abramovich

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

The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball. ~ Joe Namath

Owen Owens Field embodies the name of the team that calls it home. It's Spartan to the core. ~ Neil Hayes

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

I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem. ~ Rahul Dravid

A team goal requires a team effort. ~ George M. Gilbert

Sometimes in football you have to score goals. ~ Thierry Henry

I think I've proven I can build a team that plays a way of football that excites and challenges at the top end of the table. ~ Brendan Rodgers

For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain. ~ Dan Maffei

As a football team, you head into the season the same way with confidence and a positive mindset that you are going to win a bunch of football games. ~ Matthew Stafford

The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody's scared of. ~ Gordon Taylor

I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier. ~ Ugo Ehiogu

Football is definitely a team sport. Without one person doing the right thing, the whole team falls. At Navy and in lacrosse, the off-the-field leadership comes into play, you know so if one person is slacking off, we've got everyone making sure everyone is pulling their own weight. It's like that in football too. ~ Sean Price

United have more experience but we have a much better team and play much better football, ~ Roberto Mancini

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

The reality is we are 0-3. The reality is that we can still be a very good football team. We need to show that on Monday night. ~ Aaron Kampman

Here, I have an opportunity to affect the lives of a lot of young people - and not just on my football team. I'm not kidding myself that that would be true at the professional level. ~ Joe Paterno

I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong. ~ Randy Pausch

I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people. ~ Theo Rossi