Umaine Football Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Arsenal play pretty-boy football. Good to watch on the telly, but there's no real grit in their play. ~ Karl Wiggins

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better. ~ Johan Cruijff

Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field. ~ Mike McCarthy

There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent. ~ Xavi

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

Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore ~ Brendan Rodgers

Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it. ~ Gale Sayers

If they want to play football, we can play football. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach. ~ Heywood Broun

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment. ~ Joe Namath

I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football. ~ Adrian Peterson

We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football. ~ Gerard Houllier

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. ~ Paul Bryant

Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first. ~ Tony Gonzalez

Every football player knows when his time is up. ~ Red Grange

You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television. ~ Berti Vogts

Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football. ~ Diego Maradona

International football is one clog further up the football ladder ~ Glenn Hoddle

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

I'm a football player by trade. That's what I do, ... So I did everything I could to make myself a football player again. ~ Tedy Bruschi

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

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. ~ Terry Pratchett

When I meet a European, the first thing I say is, "I'd much rather watch football than football." But I'm just teasing them, and they know I'd really rather watch football than football. ~ Jarod Kintz

I play a lot of football, watch a lot of football, and think about football. ~ Jamie Blackley

All religions, they play football - even nowadays all girls and women have the right to play football in cultures like the Arabic countries in the Muslim they play football. ~ Sepp Blatter

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames; I'm really into them. ~ Jason Kidd

Is this college football's version of Arena Football? These guys need to grow some hair on their peaches. ~ Gary Danielson

When it's football season, I'm all football. ~ Hayden Fry

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

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday. ~ Tony Dungy

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football. ~ Roger Staubach

I'm the football coach around here and don't you remember it. ~ Bill Peterson

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football. ~ Lawrence Taylor

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

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

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull. ~ Steve Sabol

Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football! ~ Pele

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

My father was an all-American football player. ~ Edwin Moses

Thank you ... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports. ~ Jimmy Fallon

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

If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question. ~ Cris Collinsworth

The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society. ~ Vicente Del Bosque

I think Marshawn Lynch is the most important player in this football game. ~ Kurt Warner

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football. ~ Michael Strahan

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football. ~ Albert Camus

I once read that football was invented so people wouldn't notice summer ending. But I couldn't wait for summer vacation to end. I couldn't wait for football. Football, dominator of fall - football, love of my life. ~ Miranda Kenneally

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting. ~ Lou Holtz

Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.' ~ Delia Smith

American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though. ~ Noel Gallagher

We must have football. What would this country be without football in October? ~ Hunter S. Thompson

I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big football was and everything around football. How many people live for football and love football. I was a professional, but I was a supporter. ~ Fernando Torres

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

I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. ~ Woody Hayes

I was a college football fanatic, and I wanted to play, not sit on the sidelines. It's tough when you know you're just a project. ~ Chad Pennington

I love football in the rain. That is what it's all about. ~ Brian Urlacher

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

There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities. ~ Gary Neville

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it. ~ John F. Kennedy

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

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

You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football. ~ Jose Mourinho

Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do. ~ Bobby Bowden

I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out, ~ Paula Deen

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race. ~ Marilyn Monroe

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

I don't get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What's the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football. ~ Maddox

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise. ~ Johan Cruyff

I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career. ~ Novak Djokovic

Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life. ~ Tony Dungy

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets. ~ Sting

The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO. ~ Pele

I don't judge my self-worth as a football player. Football is something I love. It's a fun career deal, but it's not what I want to do with my life, because I see football as a game. ~ Tim Tebow

I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio. ~ Frank Lampard

It's not just a football club. Celtic means so much to so many people. ~ Fergus McCann

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. ~ Terrell Owens

I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players. ~ Gabrielle Union

Congratulations to Ohio State, your new college football champions. Coach Urban Meyer may be the greatest football coach of all time. Don't confuse him with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. That's urban quagmire. ~ David Letterman

I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football. ~ Barry Larkin

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

When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football. ~ Jose Mourinho

The most important people at Liverpool Football Club are the people who want to be here. ~ Kenny Dalglish

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

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player. ~ Leigh Steinberg

I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it. ~ Chaske Spencer

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

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

Understatement has become part of the tradition. A proposal to build a history room to house the football team's memorabilia was immediately shelved when many former players complained. What makes this program so special is what you carry in your heart, they argued, not what you hang on the wall. ~ Neil Hayes

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

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

Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements. ~ Zinedine Zidane

I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic. ~ Steve McManaman

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

I used to go play football matches in the morning, and I'd go straight from me football game to a dance competition. ~ Tristan MacManus