Subject: Sports » Football (Page 8)

God's busy; they'll have to make do with me.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

It would have been a good pass if Harry had been playing for us.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

I try to play golf at least once a day.

(1924 – 2012) 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

Here’s a guy who when he runs, he moves faster.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

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

American football coach

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

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

I normally run the 40-yard dash in 4.9, but when a 280-pound guy is chasing me, I run it in 4.6.

American football player

It's like embalming. Nobody likes it, but somebody has to do it.

American football player

If defensive linemen’s IQs were 5 points lower, they’d be geraniums.

American football player

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

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Maybe I have lost a step, but I had a few to lose.

professional football player

I don't speak German, he don't speak English, and I think I just agreed to marry his daughter.

American football player & coach

Some coaches pray for wisdom; I pray for 260-pound tackles… they’ll give me plenty of wisdom.

(1932 – ) American football coach

[Punter] Bill Bradley kicks them so high and so short you can't run them back; you have to fair catch every one. Us coaches call that the punt of no return.

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

Hey, the offensive linemen are the biggest guys on the field, they're bigger than everybody else, and that's what makes them the biggest guys on the field.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.


(1905 – 1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright & novelist,

Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.

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

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

American football coach

I have a lifetime contract. That means I can't be fired during the third quarter if we're ahead and moving the ball.

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