Pro Football Quotes

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them. ~ Vince Lombardi

We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games. ~ Louise Erickson

The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time. ~ Alan Page

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts. ~ Bob Lilly

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. ~ Don Shula

I'm not like some guys who, if the Ravens lose, are ready to jump off the top of M&M Stadium. There are other things in life besides pro football. ~ Art Donovan

Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself. ~ Ralph Wiley

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football? ~ Art Donovan

There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance
physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its 'national pastime' pedestal in less than fifteen years. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

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

The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013. ~ Steve Sabol

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

My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself. ~ Bill Cosby

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. ~ Bill Peterson

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy. ~ Jack Kemp

I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium. ~ Al Davis

People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life. ~ Pete Rozelle

I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on. ~ Peter Landesman

I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It's been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I've enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work. ~ John Madden

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. ~ Frank Gifford

No pro football player should die of heatstroke, any more than cholera, in this day and age if the most basic attention is paid and precautions are taken. ~ Sally Jenkins

I stopped looking around when I heard a soft "mew" and I looked toward Tate to see he was crouched. He straightened and turned to me.
I froze and stared.
Tatum Jackson, ex-pro football player, ex-cop, now bartender/bounty hunter, tall, beautiful and more man than I'd ever experienced in my life was standing on the edge of his kitchen holding a cat.
And it wasn't just any cat and he wasn't just holding it. He was cradling it. ~ Kristen Ashley

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

A new force in pro football, Taylor demanded not just a tactical response but an explanation. Many people pointed to his unusual combination of size and speed. As one of the Redskins' linemen put it, "No human being should be six four, two forty-five, and run a four-five forty." Bill Parcells thought Taylor's size and speed were closer to the beginning than to the end of the explanation. New York Giants' scouts were scouring the country for young men six three or taller, 240 pounds or heavier, with speed. They could be found. In that pool of physical specimens what was precious - far more precious than an inch, or ten pounds, or one tenth of a second - was Taylor's peculiar energy and mind: relentless, manic, with grandiose ambitions and private standards of performance. ~ Michael Lewis

A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are. ~ Joe Don Looney

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass. ~ Ron Jaworski

A consulting position might work in another profession, but not in pro football. There's no such thing. They give a guy a parking spot and put his name up as a consultant, and in six months, they erase the name. ~ John Madden

If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent. ~ Vince Lombardi

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section. ~ Dan Jenkins

If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something. ~ Ryan Leaf

Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud ... He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now. ~ Steve Sabol

Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts. ~ Jay Mohr

I love college football and I love pro football. This is how fair-weathered I am. I used to be a Giants fan, but my son who's turning 12 has really gotten into football, and he likes the Jets, so I totally jumped ships so we can root for the same team. ~ Chris Bauer

I'm not pro-owner or pro-player. I am pro-football. I want the game to go on. I want the game to be tough. I don't want the game to be a killer of our players. ~ Jim Brown

Pro Football Hall of Famer is something that everyone recognizes as the pinnacle of any achievement in sport. All the fame and all the recognition that we single out in various industries, the Pro Football Hall of Fame is really special. ~ John Riggins

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. ~ Angela Carter

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

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's. ~ Alex Karras

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself. ~ Eric Cantona

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

You can talk about your Psalms and your John 3:16. Well, Austin 3:16 says I just whooped your *ss. ~ Stone Cold Steve Austin

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

All who are genuinely committed to the advancement of women can and must offer a woman or a girl who is pregnant, frightened, and alone a better alternative than the destruction of her own unborn child ~ Mary Ann Glendon

I really enjoy the football season. ~ Jimmie Johnson

As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy ... there's something about winning a Super Bowl. ~ Terry Bradshaw

Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly. ~ George Will

It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left. ~ Harry Redknapp

Millwall fans are an earthy bunch, and there's nothing wrong with that, but many of them lack social graces, and the demographics are far removed from architect's impressions of the New Den, which is a superb ground ~ Karl Wiggins

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win. ~ Terry Bradshaw

Colt was a big guy and there was a lot to see, all of it good. He'd need to walk down a football field for you to have time to get it all in. ~ Kristen Ashley

No disrespect to the country. It's a wonderful place, the ... where's he gone again? ~ Steve Bruce

As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill [at Leicester and Celtic] and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life. ~ Neil Lennon

Right now, I am a football player and I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best. ~ J. J. Watt

Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football. ~ Roy Blount, Jr.

I was pretty much seen as a basketball player coming out of high school. Football was my second love, but luckily, I turned out to be pretty good. Something just drew me to football; besides, I ended up being too short for my position in basketball. ~ Justin Tuck

I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen. ~ Abhishek Bachchan

It's a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don't feel as high. It is a different kind of test - can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one? ~ Arsene Wenger

It's going to take a shoehorn to prise these two teams apart ~ Alan Parry

Of course, women are capable of all sorts of major unpleasantness, and there are violent crimes by women, but the so-called war of the sexes is extraordinarily lopsided when it comes to actual violence. Unlike the last (male) head of the International Monetary Fund, the current (female) head is not going to assault an employee at a luxury hotel; top-ranking female officers in the US military, unlike their male counterparts, are not accused of any sexual assaults; and young female athletes, unlike those male football players in Steubenville, aren't likely to urinate on unconscious boys, let alone violate them and boast about it in YouTube videos and Twitter feeds. No female bus riders in India have ganged up to sexually assault a man so badly he dies of his injuries, nor are marauding packs of women terrorizing men in Cairo's Tahrir Square, and there's no maternal equivalent to the 11 percent of rapes that are by fathers or stepfathers. ~ Rebecca Solnit

I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that. ~ David Beckham

I do not play football, I score goals. ~ Dada Maravilha

I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching. ~ Gabriel Iglesias

Football is an art players paint with their feet. ~ Maswood Alam Khan

I miss being a mistress. I enjoyed it. I loved it, in fact. I never felt guilty. I pretended I did. I had to, with my married girlfriends, the ones who live in terror of the pert au pair or the pretty, funny girl in the office who can talk about football and spends half her life in the gym. I had to tell them that of course I felt terrible about it, of course I felt bad for his wife, I never meant for any of this to happen, we fell in love, what could we do? The truth is, I never felt bad for Rachel.... She just wasn't real to me, and anyway, I was enjoying myself too much. Being the other woman is a huge turn-on, there's no point denying it: you're the one he can't help but betray his wife for, even though he loves her. That's just how irresistible you are. ~ Paula Hawkins

In her nervous system and she can't get up and her face is like an inch from the football-field ~ John Green

I just want to continue to play great football - that's all that matters. I don't really care about the accolades or any of that. ~ Justin Tuck

I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by. ~ Kenny Cunningham

Over the past couple of months, Chantel had become a pro at leading book discussions and inventing fun games and trivia questions that all related to that particular month's book selection. Although, last month's theme, dystopian and the book selection "Matched" by Allie Condie, had the retirement home director a little concerned when everyone wanted to stop taking their medications. Not... a good... thing! ~ JoJo Sutis

Three rules for coaching: 1.) Surround yourself with people who can't live without football. 2.) Recognize winners. They come in all forms. 3.) Have a plan for everything. ~ Bear Bryant

I'm nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible. ~ Elon Musk

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

Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support in my football and in everything. They've been very close to me and we have a great relationship. ~ Lionel Messi

Football will always be my foremost passion. ~ David Ginola

We have three kinds of guys on our team. We have guys that get it; they play good; they understand how to play winning football. We have some guys that are trying to get it, and they are working hard every day? We are supporting them, and we want the guys that have it to support them. Then we have some guys that don't get it and don't know that they don't get it. We are trying to replace them. We only have a couple left. ~ Nick Saban

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

That lad must have been born offside. ~ Alex Ferguson

I think you've got the wrong idea. I like women."
"I do too." A light burned in Deacon's eyes that sent something sizzling through Shelby's body. "Most of the time. Nothing like sweet perfume and soft curves, is there?"
Shelby didn't say anything. He couldn't break Deacon's mesmerizing gaze.
"Nothing except the hot, hard body of a man all sweaty and furious after a game of tag football that turned violent and ended with dirt in places dirt isn't meant to go. Or a man's mouth on your cock, god, there is nothing like a man sucking you off, Thursday. Have you ever been sucked off by a man? ~ Mercy Celeste

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

Pro tip," said Hercules. "Don't start a battle by announcing your fatal weakness. ~ Rick Riordan