Texas Football Quotes

We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches. ~ Darrell Royal

If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas. ~ Ricky Williams

In keeping with the Laws of the Prophet Bubba and the Code of the UIL, as set forth in the Book of First Downs, as the sun sets on Friday nights the rites of the Texas state religion are celebrated: high school, smash-mouth football. 'And lo, the children of Jim Bob do take to the roads in caravans and they do go up unto the stadium by tribes, the Indians of Groveton, the Panthers of Lufkin, the Mustangs of Overton, and the very Wildcats of Palestine, and who shall withstand the traffic jams thereof?' Thus is it written, and so it is and shall be. ~ Markham Shaw Pyle

At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any. ~ Erk Russell

Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid. ~ Tammy Faye Bakker

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it. ~ Jay Hernandez

England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.' ~ Joey Barton

Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind. ~ John Steinbeck

My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time. ~ Evan Williams

Several Watford supporters disgracefully started leaving the ground, and the Arsenal surprised us by adding another chant to their repertoire – making a total of two chants if my mathematics serves me correctly. 'You might as well go home.' What they don't realise, of course, is that we are home. Watford's not a pretty place, but its home. I live a half-hour walk from Vicarage Road. The chant went up from our end, 'We support our local team,' which always shuts up Premiership supporters from Borehamwood, Radlett and Surrey, no matter which of the top four teams they follow. ~ Karl Wiggins

I really do love football. ~ Ricky Williams

I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the reality of modern football. Big teams only want big players, big players are in big clubs, big clubs want to keep their big players. ~ Jose Mourinho

Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you're capable of. It's only two teams on that Monday night. ~ Jerry Rice

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

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?' ~ Chuck Pagano

I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood. ~ Peter Landesman

You know, I stopped being competitive after I played football. ~ Isaiah Mustafa

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

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision! ~ Sam Houston

In high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop. ~ Rodney Dangerfield

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise. ~ Susan Orlean

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 was baptized Methodist, but I was mainly raised First Church of NFL, which is to say that my family, especially my father, was much more concerned with watching football on Sundays than attending services. ~ Christopher Moore

Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals ~ George Hamilton

So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern ... Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult. ~ George Orwell

My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game. ~ Jurnee Smollett

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much. ~ Arsene Wenger

At the end of the day, the only people a One Voice doctrine silences are those who should be the most loyal. ~ Tony Dungy

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes. ~ Ruud Gullit

The White House says that the vacation in Texas will give President Bush the chance to unwind. My question is, when does the guy wind? ~ David Letterman

He's disappeared to Azerbaijan, or somewhere ridiculous in the world. ~ Harry Redknapp

If someone states that Ajax played a negative game then maybe we are smarter than Manchester City. ~ Ronald Koeman

Progressing to where you can play a big role in football is nothing you can achieve in just two years. It will at least take five, six, well more likely seven years. A once-in-a-life-time success does not help you, constant quality is what you have to go for. ~ Berti Vogts

One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams. ~ George Osborne

Most players don't mind drug testing once they realize they don't have to study for it. ~ Mack Brown

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that. ~ Alex Ferguson

The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art. ~ Kasey Keller

I love playing football. I started playing for a school team, which is fun, and I play a lot of five a side. I nowhere near good enough to go professional but it's definitely one of my main hobbies. I play three times a week. ~ Matthew Lewis

I assured myself that I'd seen the most wicked block perpetuated by man or beast. ~ Sid Luckman

With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther. ~ David Beckham

I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester. ~ Brendan Rodgers

The Dell will continue to be a hard place to go and take points. ~ Dwight Yorke

The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper ... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me. ~ Audie Murphy

Let us have Texas, the Empire State, governed by the people; not Texas, the truck-patch, ruled by corporate lobbyists. ~ James Stephen Hogg