Subject: Sports » Football (Page 15)

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

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

Maybe that will distract the Falcon quarterback.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

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

For Michigan fans, football is a religion. And the Ohio State game is Easter.

(1948 – 2003) American actor

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

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

Underdog, overdog, hotdog; I guess you want to be an underdog – but an underdog with the best team.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

The fat lady might have cleared her throat, but she hasn't sung yet.

Texas Tech football coach

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

(1939 – ) American football player & coach

He's great to the old guys. He's got one trainer just to treat varicose veins.

(1935 – 2012) American football player, sports announcer & actor

We didn't lose many games, and we never lost a party.

American football player

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season… one word and one word only – Super Bowl.

football coach

The Bears aren't very genteel; some teams tend to remove the football from you, the Bears remove you from the football – it's much quicker.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

I think they have to take this bunch down to the slaughterhouse to get weighed.

American football coach

I told my team it doesn't matter… there are 750 million people in China who don't even know this game was played. The next day, a guy called me from China and asked, 'What happened, Coach?

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Two kinds of American football players ain't worth a damn: one that never does what he's told and the other that does nothing but what he's told.

(1923 – 2013) American professional football 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

I don't think he's got much of a future here, because I plan on going to all the games.

(1923 – 2001) American 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

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

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Three or four plane crashes and we're in the playoffs.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach