Subject: Sports » Football (Page 10)

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

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

I'm not surprised. The referee is a fine Catholic fellow by the name of Patrick Murphy.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

 He can be a great player in this league for a long time if he learns to say two words: I'm full.

professional football & TV commentator

I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.

Australian 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

On this team, we are all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

(1937 – ) football coach, sportscaster, author & speaker

Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentlemen's game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts.

It was cool, man, but I’m a little depressed they didn’t have a buffet.

300+ pound American football player

Three things can happen when you put a [foot]ball in the air – and two of them are bad.

(1915 – 1987) American football player and coach

I don’t know. I only played there for nine years.

American football player

Show me a good loser, and Ill show you a loser.

(1913 – 1970) football coach

This is something that probably doesn't happen in Tom Landry's office.

American football coach

Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

I’m not allowed to comment on lousy officiating.

professional football general manager

… when we came in at halftime we pulled off our socks and began putting iodine on the teeth marks in our legs.

American football player & coach

The 49ers were so badly flattened that they didn't fly back to San Francisco, they were faxed.

American sports columnist

Football is a fertility festival: eleven sperm trying to get into the egg; I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

(1965 – ) Icelandic singer-songwriter

George Halas throws nickels around like man hole covers.

(1939 – ) American football player & coach

I'm broke and I'm back.

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

I keep a picture of O. J. Simpson at my side at all times to remind me of the days when I knew how to coach.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach