Subject: Sports » Football

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.

novelist, screenwriter & businessman

I wouldn’t ever set out to hurt anybody deliberately unless it was, you know, important – like a league game or something.

professional football player

It is better to give a lick than receive one.

American football player

If we hadn’t given them those first four touchdowns, it might have been different.

American football coach

He may be the only kicker to kick and collect Social Security at the same time.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

American basketball coach & executive

A big factor in the game was the number of points scored.

(1939 – ) American football player & coach

Emotion is highly overrated in football. My wife Corky is emotional as hell but can't play football worth a damn.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

It's like embalming. Nobody likes it, but somebody has to do it.

American football player

Penn State had less firepower than Sweden did in World War II.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

[Punter] Bill Bradley kicks them so high and so short you can't run them back; you have to fair catch every one. Us coaches call that the punt of no return.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

Most football players are temperamental… that’s 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

professional football player

A genius in the NFL is a guy who won last week.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Whenever they gave him the game ball, he ate it.

American football player

I don’t want to die in the middle of the football season; I have to know who’s No. 1 in the last polls.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

The New York Jets have been given permission to sell Girl Scout Cookies.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

It's like my ex-wife… 21 different personalities and seven of them hated me.

American football coach

Speed, strength and the inability to register pain immediately.

American football player

It would have been a good pass if Harry had been playing for us.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

After indulging in some heavy, late-night research with scholarly friends, Bobby was driving back to his hotel, innocently enough, when he was sideswiped by several empty cars lurking at curbside.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter