Subject: Sports » Football (Page 4)

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they’ve had a bad day.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way.

professional football player & coach

Let's go out there and win one for the quipper.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Old place-kickers never die, they just go on missing the point.

professional football kicker (once seen wearing a watch during a game)

I think all uniforms look nice if you've got good players in 'em.

American football coach

They may have regained all 40 yards… in fact, they may have.

I’m going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time.

professional football coach

There aren't many secrets in coaching…. well, there's one secret: Get a guy like Warrick Dunn, throw him a screen pass and watch him run 52 yards with it.

(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

Young Tight Ends Excite Coaches

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

Give each guy on the line an ax.

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

If there’s a pileup, they’ll have to give some of the players artificial insemination.

(1919 – 2006) American sports announcer

 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

When I was duck hunting with Bear Bryant, he shot at one but it kept flying.
"John," he said, "There flies a dead duck…"
Now, that's confidence.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Playing middle linebacker is like walking through a lion's cage in a three-piece porkchop suit.

professional football player

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

American football coach

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

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

I’m really happy for Coach Cooper and the guys who’ve been around here for six or seven years, especially our seniors.

college football player

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