Playing Football Quotes

The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited. ~ Ice Cube

Basketball also helps you learn to move your feet by playing defense and guarding guys, and that all carries over to playing football with staying square and having good footwork. ~ Calvin Pryor

Why do I have three Super Bowl rings and still think there's something greater out there for me? I mean, maybe a lot of people would say, 'Hey man, this is what is.' I reached my goal, my dream, my life. I think, 'God, it's got to be more than this.' I mean this isn't, this can't be what it's all cracked up to be ... I love playing football and I love being quarterback for this team. But at the same time, I think there are a lot of other parts about me that I'm trying to find. ~ Tom Brady

Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line. ~ Ray Lewis

Gisele Bundchen is a bit of a jock. 1 of my fave shoots is her playing football ~ Anna Wintour

I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football. ~ Frank Lampard

You don't need a ball to play football; all you need is a strong wish! After then, you can use even a stone as a ball! For all other things you want to do, all you need is a strong wish! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, "If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball ... " Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not. ~ Ice Cube

It's so funny; I grew up in the Midwest, I have two older brothers, and you're just as competitive playing football as you are eating pickled eggs, or trying to kill zombies. As long as you don't take it too far, I think it's a good way for people to relate. ~ Jose Pablo Cantillo

This is what you should do, let it rest. I'm playing football for LSU. I'm preparing for R-Kansas. I'm preparing for the next game, and the next game after that. ~ Les Miles

My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger. ~ Eli Manning

I am very obsessed with ballet now because it is a very difficult sport and a beautiful one because it is not about money. It's not like playing football or tennis - dance has no sponsors, it's just for the beauty. Maybe it is the only last pure sport. ~ Carine Roitfeld

But baseball was different. Schwartz thought of it as Homeric - not a scrum but a series of isolated contests. Batter versus pitcher, fielder versus ball. You couldn't storm around, snorting and slapping people, the way Schwartz did while playing football.You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you fucked up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see? ~ Chad Harbach

My first experience with football was not very good because I didn't plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal - normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be - he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that's how I got introduced to football. ~ Jerry Rice

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

It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back. ~ Jacoby Ellsbury

Where is it written in the Constitution that because a guy played football, he has the automatic right to sit in that booth? How hard is football? If I've spent thirty-five years as a sportswriter, you think I don't know you get six for a touchdown? You think I don't know that? You think I don't know you get three for a field goal? C'mon, c'mon. And I can actually speak English okay, so that would be a difference between me and a guy who spent his whole life playing football. Now, not all of them are like that, but it's that thinking that says, "We have divine right of booth." No, you don't. No you don't. ~ Tony Kornheiser

Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two. ~ Chad Michael Murray

Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet. ~ Ronaldo

I just always felt I'd be playing football in the NFL - or at least playing for a living. ~ Kurt Warner

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do. ~ Paul Scholes

You're watching your kids playing football, and you're not present. It's like the worst ... it's horrible. I despise myself for it. I think it's a particularly male thing. Being present and in the moment with your kids is something a lot of men struggle with. ~ Andy Serkis

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time. ~ Ronaldinho

I'm not satisfied. I'm still enjoying this. I still feel like I'm in the best part of my career and I can play at a high level. This is what I love to do: playing football and winning games. ~ Eli Manning

I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with. ~ Andrea Bocelli

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 realize I'm very fortunate to hopefully make a lot of money playing football. I don't know if I want to abuse that privilege and make myself a larger figure than I am. ~ Andrew Luck

Think of job hunting as a game. Job hunting depends on knowing the rules of the game. Like playing football, you need to know all the rules, particularly the ones you don't want to break, such as being out-of-bounds.
The point of the game is to know how to be comfortable and make others comfortable with you in every situation. ~ John J. Daly Jr.

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.' ~ Billy Corgan

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football. ~ Roger Milla

If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it. ~ Alan Shearer

I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I'd go baseball, and then I'd go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something. ~ Joe Gibbs

Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends ~ Zinedine Zidane

I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football. ~ Channing Tatum

The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything. ~ Troy Polamalu

What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football. ~ Arsene Wenger

I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning. ~ Wayne Rooney

When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names. ~ Stjepan Hauser

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~ Bryce Harper

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember. ~ Brett Favre

There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park. ~ Tom Ford

There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with. ~ Robert Griffin III

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football. ~ Joe Biden

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football. ~ Victor Cruz

Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It's what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport. ~ Junior Seau

I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them. ~ Kris Kristofferson

It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to have been involved even if I've had nothing to do with it. That's why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful with what I say because people always try and twist things. ~ Lionel Messi

As a young kid, I wasn't really interested at that stage - getting financial advice was far from my mind. I was focused on playing football. But I got onboard with this financial adviser and I heeded his advice, and that was my smartest money decision. ~ Robbie Fowler

I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street. ~ Florence Griffith Joyner

I'd have loved to have been a footballer. I was always playing football and I enjoyed it much more than tennis to begin with. It's more fun to play in a team, all the parents are there cheering you on. ~ Andy Murray

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football. ~ Goran Ivanisevic

I grew up playing football and baseball. ~ Amar'e Stoudemire

I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn't go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it's going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I'm not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I'm going to enjoy and it's time for me to do something different. ~ Ricky Williams

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing. ~ David Beckham

Keeping fit is really important as playing football is all I've ever wanted to do. ~ David Beckham

I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love it. ~ Tim Tebow

When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period. ~ Martin Evans

We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. ~ Dee Dee Myers

I've been playing football forever, and I've been making plays forever. ~ Torrey Smith

Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing ~ Alan Green

I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it, I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it. ~ Matteo Manassero

Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is. ~ Johan Cruijff

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football. ~ Eric Cantona

In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this! ~ Parminder Nagra

I always want to be the best at what I do. That doesn't mean compared to other people, but just in what you do. ~ Derek Hough

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

Sure, there are times when the guys talk about playing football in school and I can't relate to that, but I can relate to being a female athlete. And as long as you are prepared, work hard and know your stuff, you will be fine. ~ Megan Alexander

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football. ~ Kenny Chesney

Why is playing football in Europe considered the pinnacle of our game, yet in other spheres of life, that same phrase - 'being in Europe' - is dismissed with suspicion? ~ Gordon Brown

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years. ~ Mickey Rourke

I don't wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it's my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you've got to respect that it's not like baseball. ~ Bryce Harper

Look, girls and boys are different. Girls like to be touched twenty times a day in a nonsexual way to feel good about themselves - that is why I tickle you and link arms with you - but boys think about sex, snogging and football, and also snogging whilst playing football. Simple. ~ Louise Rennison

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football. ~ Burt Bacharach

I love playing football. I love playing for the Patriots. ~ Tom Brady

Being a footballer is not just about wearing the shirt and playing football on the pitch. You have to be clean, you have to do right things, you have to show courage, you have to show many many things you know. I always say that you play the same way on the pitch as you do in life. ~ Emmanuel Petit

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school. ~ Ed O'Neill

I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends, and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football. ~ Andrea Bocelli

When I first started playing football, a headache was called a 'headache.' And now it's called 'a concussion.' ~ Junior Seau

We never had anybody who froze to death playing football. You probably had somebody who died from heat stroke playing football. ~ Bud Grant

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball. ~ Fred Frith

I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football. ~ John Barnes

There are hundreds of Beckhams playing football all over the world. ~ Diego Maradona

I don't know what my future holds. I'm gonna love playing football for as long as I can, but there's a lot of other things that I would love to accomplish. ~ Tim Tebow

I had a dream about you. We were playing football (soccer), and I just needed to score one goal to win. Of course, one goal was one more than I'd scored so far, so it might be next to impossible. One is certainly next to nothing, but it might also be next to everything. In love, one is also next to nothing - and next to everything, as two is all you need to make eternity. ~ Jarod Kintz

There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards. ~ Terrell Davis

Cade eyes traveled over her when she answered the door, coming to rest on her shoes. "Are those the ones from Monday night?"

"They are."

He stepped inside her apartment and kicked the door shut.

Well, then.

"I have good memories of those shoes." With a warm gleam in his eye, he reached up and cupped the nape of her neck, leaning in to kiss her.

Hmm. She might have to wear these shoes all the time around Cade, if they put him in this good of a moo -

He jerked back, cursing under his breath.

Brooke blinked in surprise, still feeling the warm press of his lips on hers. "Um . . . what just happened?"

He winced, rotating his arm gingerly. "I reached around to grab your ass."

"And . . . it electrocuted you?"

He chucked her under the chin. "No, sassy. My shoulder's a little sore after playing football today."

That was news to her. "I didn't know you still played football."

"I don't. I was helping out someone else and got caught up in the moment. ~ Julie James

Motivation is not something I struggle with. I love playing football, I love being in training. ~ Lionel Messi

I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have. ~ Eddie McClintock

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me. ~ Eric Cantona

When it comes to football I think it's vital you always enjoy playing. ~ Jordan Henderson

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid. ~ Michael East

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something. ~ Randy Harrison

It wasn't professional, but it was a few levels below the top level. I loved playing football, but my passion was always music. It didn't become a possibility to me until I started playing songs I thought were good. I think it happened during my third song. The dream to become a musician appeared in my heart, and that happened one day. ~ Vance Joy

There's something amazing about tea. It's good before a meal, after a meal, when drunk, when taking drugs, while playing football and after being called a poof in the street. ~ Noel Fielding

I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar. ~ Brian J. White

I grew up playing football since the day I could walk; some of my greatest memories of childhood are playing touch football in all kinds of weather with my best friends. That's a part of the American experience that no corporation can destroy. ~ Greg Graffin

Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, which they spent on our education to send us to Catholic private school in Oakland, mostly black. The other kids had more money than I did. I started school early; I was young. So I'd come back to my hood and read. ~ Ryan Coogler

One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier. ~ Claire Tomalin

When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep! ~ Michael Strahan