Subject: Sports » Football (Page 5)

Ten thousand bucks if ya knock him outta the game. I don't care if ya hit him with a whiskey bottle when he gets off the bus.

American football player

While letting Plano East roll up 365 yards of offense, North Garland only prevented a bigger route [sic] by pouncing on the six turnovers.

newspaper reporter

Sportscaster: The extra point is no good!

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

Never was a man more aptly named.

Maybe that will distract the Falcon quarterback.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Statistics and records are baseball talk; they keep records like most times sliding into second base on a Tuesday.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

We were tipping off our plays; whenever we broke from the huddle, three backs were laughing and one was as pale as a ghost.

professional football executive

[Coach Vince] Lombardi treats us all the same… like dogs.

professional football player

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

It is better to give a lick than receive one.

American football player

Football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport; dancing is a contact sport.

(1915 – 1987) American football player and coach

I won’t know until my barber tells me on Monday.

(1888 – 1931) American football player & coach

What’s one more torpedo in a sinking ship?

American football player

If you can’t make the putts and can’t get the man in from second on the bottom of the ninth, you’re not going to win enough football games in this league, and that’s the problem we had today.

football coach

The New York Jets have been given permission to sell Girl Scout Cookies.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

Jack Del Rio and myself are very similar except he's really good looking and was a great player. Other than that we're very similar.

American football coach

Virginia has already spent more on plugging Shawn Moore for the Heisman Trophy than Thomas Jefferson spent getting elected president.

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

The shoulder surgery was a success; the lobotomy failed.

(1939 – ) American football player & coach

I ruined my hands in the ring… the referee kept stepping on them.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

I remember in Pittsburgh we had no players and the ones we did have wanted to stay at the hotel by the fire. I was ticked because that's where I wanted to stand.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

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

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter