Subject: Sports » Football

If I didn’t enjoy gloating so much, I wouldn’t do so many interviews.

American football coach

The pads don't keep you from getting hurt. They just keep you from getting killed.

American football player

Well the frog men finally got Rosie.

(1925 – ) American professional football player

Come on Sandy, baby, loosen up, you’re too tight.

American football player

If defensive linemen’s IQs were 5 points lower, they’d be geraniums.

American football player

I’m fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.

wife of coach Don Shula

Football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

(1856 – 1915) writer, publisher, artist & philosopher

They were absolutely horrible and that’s the best thing I can say. Besides that they were bad.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

What’s one more torpedo in a sinking ship?

American football player

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

When I was duck hunting with Bear Bryant, he shot at one but it kept flying.
"John," he said, "There flies a dead duck…"
Now, that's confidence.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

For his salad, you just pour vinegar and oil on your lawn and let him graze.

American football player

If you have everyone back from a team that lost 10 games, experience isn't too important.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

I had a lifetime contract, but the administration declared me dead.

Clemson football coach

If a contest had 97 prizes, the 98th would be a trip to Green Bay.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Kickers are like horse manure. They're all over the place.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

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

American football coach

Dance with the one what brung ya.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach

Now that Im retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies.

American football player

Urban should know. Almost 30 of his players have been arrested over the years, so he apparently knows a bad guy when he sees one.

sports reporter

They write more books.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach