Subject: Sports » Football (Page 14)

They say a tie is like kissing your sister; I guess that is better than kissing your brother.

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

There isn't anything wrong with winning ugly… as a matter of fact, there isn't anything wrong with being ugly – as long as you're successful.

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

It was an ideal day for football – too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter

The people of this country have allowed football to get completely out of hand, and that’s fortunate for my bank account.

(1918 – 1995) American sports journalist & television commentator

If he wanted me to run 26 miles through the hills, I would. If he wanted me to carry water bottles, I would. If he wanted me to get my hair cut like his… well, you have to draw the line somewhere.

American football player

Pain is only temporary, no matter how long it lasts.

American football player

One player was lost because he broke his nose; how do you go about getting a nose in condition for football?

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach

I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation; I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.

Nebraska football coach

Sports is the toy department of human life, and Monday Night Football is the largest attraction in the toy department.

(1918 – 1995) American sports journalist & television commentator

Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach

 This job is better than I could get if I used my college degree, which, at this point, I can't remember what it was in.

professional football player

You usually wind up staying up all night, or until your best player comes in.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

When it’s third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I’ll take the whiskey drinkers every time.

professional football player

He's not twins.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Sportscaster: The extra point is no good!

Robert Scott: Then it isn’t an extra point, is it?

The older you get, the faster you ran as a kid.

professional football player & coach

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

I play football… I’m not trying to be a professor; the tests don’t seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven’t been through in school.

Clemson football recruit

Tom Landry is such a perfectionist that if he were married to Dolly Parton, he’d ask her to cook.

American football player

We are not going to be any three-clouds-and-a-yard-of-dust team.

football coach

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