Subject: Sports » Football (Page 3)

It's like my ex-wife… 21 different personalities and seven of them hated me.

American football coach

Most football players are temperamental… that’s 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

professional football player

Never was a man more aptly named.

The shoulder surgery was a success; the lobotomy failed.

(1939 – ) American football player & coach

He had a God-given killer instinct.

professional football owner & coach

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

(1918 – 2001) American sportswriter, commentator & actor

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

College football 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

He’s about the size of a lot of guys that size.

football coach

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

(1939 – ) American football player & coach

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb; to be a back, you only have to be dumb.

(1888 – 1931) American football player & coach

I’ll probably take a little time off and go hide somewhere. We will be back. Maybe not this century, but we will be back.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

The only way that Miami will beat Florida St. is if they outscore them.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

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

professional football player

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

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter

If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.

novelist, screenwriter & businessman

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

It’s shattering when a player loses interest in camp. When you lose your interest in standing around eating steaks you lose everything.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

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

I’m not dropping a bar of soap in the shower near [kicker] Garo Yepremian.

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

Sportscaster: The extra point is no good!

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