Subject: Sports » Football

Every man’s life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session.

(1782 – 1852) American statesman, senator (Massachusetts) & writer

The only difference between me and General Custer is that I have to watch the films on Sunday.

College football coach

If you can’t make the putts and can’t get the man in from second on the bottom of the ninth, you’re not going to win enough football games in this league, and that’s the problem we had today.

football coach

I know their mother… she'd give them all my plays.

college football coach

I had an advantage – I slept with his mother.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

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

All quitters are good losers.

German-American football coach

Hold when you're at home and don't hold when you're on the road.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

God invented football so grown men would have something to do between wars.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter

The reason women don’t play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

They write more books.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

One thing I've learned over the years is sometimes if you make kicks early in the game, you don't have to make them late.

American football kicker

Football is easy, if you're crazy as hell.

American football player

Baseball players are smarter than [American] football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the pitch?

American baseball pitcher

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

What’s one more torpedo in a sinking ship?

American football player

Remember: Super Bowl is the biggest day of the year for pizza delivery… so no matter what happens in the game, Peyton Manning wins.

(1974 – ) American comedian & impressionist

Some teams are fair haired, we're not – some teams are the Smiths, we're the Grabowskis.

(1939 – ) American football player & coach

That is because I don't have one.

American football player