164 Football Season Quotes

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Famous Football Season Quotes

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season. — Darius Rucker

Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake. — John Facenda

Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation. — Bob Ufer

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball. — Bill Veeck

Life is good. Football is better. — Steve Sabol

I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite. — Verne Troyer

There are two times of the year that stir the blood. In the fall, for the hunt, and now for lacrosse. — Oren Lyons

Life is great, football is better. — Steve Sabol

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League. — George Vecsey

I love football, football is my life. — Wayne Rooney

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends. — Tommy Lasorda

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest. - Tom Landry

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest. — Tom Landry

College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night. — Rick Reilly

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. — Bill Peterson

Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time. — Arnold J. Mandell

Short Football Season Quotes

  • What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball. — Bill Shankly
  • This ain't a football game, we do this every day. — Earl Weaver
  • Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become. — Mary McGrory
  • Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. — Tom Landry
  • I'm a huge sports fan. — Marc Anthony
  • That's what you work all season for, to get into the playoff games, and you don't want to blow it. — Ray Nitschke
  • Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. — Jose Mourinho
  • I am a huge sports fan. — Kris Allen
  • Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up. — Knute Rockne
  • Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. — Elbert Hubbard

Football Season Image Quotes

Football season quote It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

New Football Season Quotes

The new season will be all about scoring more goals than the opposition. — Alvin Martin

In my first season I was learning about English football in a new team. I scored 13 which isn't bad, but I think I can do better. — Luis Garcia

I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away. — Kate Mara

Football season quote Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.
Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying. — George Carlin

Football Team Quotes

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team. — Eric Cantona

A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit. — Pele

Hungry is a word that I've been analyzing here of late. It's not hunger that drives me, it's not hunger that needs to drive our football team. Hunger and thirst are things that can be quenched. We have to be a driven group, we have to seek greatness. — Mike Tomlin

Football season quote Football, beer, and above all gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in contro
Football, beer, and above all gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. — Dennis Bergkamp

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful — Arsene Wenger

I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. — Les Miles

Football season quote Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it. And if I was a bird I would fly about the earth seek
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it. And if I was a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

It's time for the New England Patriots to move on and that's what our job is. And as I said, our goal is the same: to have a winning football team, to be a pillar in the community. That's what our direction is; that's what we're going to do. — Bill Belichick

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne

I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day! — Les Miles

It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team. — Woody Hayes

Sports Football Quotes

Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football. — Pele

Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for. — Ernie Davis

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. — Henry Van Dyke

Football season quote Love is like roses. It blooms one season and dies next.
Love is like roses. It blooms one season and dies next.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day. — Ray Lewis

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. — Pele

Football season quote Seasons change, but people don't
Seasons change, but people don't

I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in general. The first time I was a bridesmaid, to my auntie, I refused to go down the aisle without my football shorts underneath my dress. — Cara Delevingne

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb. — Knute Rockne

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. — Duffy Daugherty

If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later. — Bob Paisley

Football Game Quotes

Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last. — Ronaldinho

Mike, did you ever see the movie 'Cast Away?' In that movie, Tom Hanks' only friend was a ball named Wilson. In this game, Russell Wilson's only friend is a football. — Jon Gruden

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. — Dave Barry

Football season quote That's the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry.
That's the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry.

Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young or old, players or fans, rich or poor, the game makes everyone equal, stirs the imagination, makes people happy and makes them sad — Franz Beckenbauer

The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game. — Wim Crouwel

I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose. — Woody Hayes

Football season quote Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then I was young, eight or nine
Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then I was young, eight or nine years, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. — Lionel Messi

If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible. — Wilhelm Reich

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. — Erma Bombeck

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes. — Jurgen Klopp

Nfl Football Quotes

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to. — Tom Landry

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence. — Tom Landry

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order. — Bud Grant

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else. — Bum Phillips

Respect all.  Fear none. - Bum Phillips

Respect all. Fear none. — Bum Phillips

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. — Don Shula

If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler. — Jack Lambert

I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest - If you can't take it, you shouldn't play! — Jack Lambert

Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that! — Bill Parcells

Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong. — Chuck Noll

Football Match Quotes

A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one. - Peter Drury

A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one. — Peter Drury

When I arrive at the gates of Heaven the Good Lord will ask ‘what did you do in your life?’ I will respond ‘I tried to win football matches.’ He will say: ‘Are you certain that’s all?’ But, well, that’s the story of my life. — Arsene Wenger

Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them. — Jose Mourinho

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us. — Ruud Gullit

I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford. — George Best

When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not. — Sayings

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind. — Roy Keane

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together. — Eamon de Valera

Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears. — Bill Shankly

People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what? — Roy Keane

Football Player Quotes

It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain. — Ian Rush

If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both — George Best

Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem. — Pele

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother. — Bo Jackson

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field. — Walter Payton

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton

Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet. — Ronaldo

It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners. - Roberto Baggio

It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners. — Roberto Baggio

What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment. — Thierry Henry

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life. — George Best

Pro Football Quotes

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today. — Gerald R. Ford

Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats. — Herschel Walker

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts. — Bob Lilly

Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry. — Barry Sanders

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. — Joe Namath

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass. — Ron Jaworski

If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same. — Bob Golic

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. — Frank Gifford

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party. — Sue Lawley

I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf. — Joe Namath

Football Field Quotes

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field. — Snoop Dogg

Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score. — Tim Tebow

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game. — Roy Clark

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts. — Darrell Royal

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game. — Roy Clarke

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? — Jim Bouton

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds. — Sachin Tendulkar

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game. — Jerry Rice

I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work. — Jerry Rice

Football Coach Quotes

I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here. — Bill Belichick

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. — Lou Holtz

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be. — Tom Landry

True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty. — Fielding H. Yost

There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character. — Walter Camp

I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach. — Bill Belichick

Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn. - Pat Dye

Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn. — Pat Dye

They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach. — Joe Paterno

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. — Don Shula

Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential. - Bud Wilkinson

Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential. — Bud Wilkinson

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More Football Season Quotes

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability. — LeBron James

Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg. — Bobby Robson

I've been consistent in patches this season. — Theo Walcott

Ronaldinho is better than Cristiano Ronaldo, but neither are as good as Leo Messi. He holds numerous records, such as the most goals scored in a single La Liga season and the most goals scored in a calendar year. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. He has everything. We must protect him. — Jose Mourinho

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday. — Graham Taylor

Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows. — Bennett Cerf

I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger. — Terry Bradshaw

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again. — Sally Quinn

In high school football, the coach kept me on the bench all year. On the last game of the season, the crowd was yelling, We want Youngman! We want Youngman! The coach says, Youngman - go see what they want! — Henny Youngman

All of West Ham's away victories have come on opponents' territory this season — Rob Hawthorne

When it's football season, I'm all football. — Hayden Fry

When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part of the city. Football players didn't make close to the money they make today and most took jobs in the off-season. Some were mechanics, others worked at furniture stores, and you could find them drinking at a neighborhood watering hole. — Barry Levinson

That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game. — Alan Parry

SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season. — Joe Paterno

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect. — Tony Dungy

I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway. — Bill Simmons

Have we become a cupcake league? We already have better helmets and gear. Wonder how the old school players feel about this. Not in the back of minds when talking about 18 game season so let's play football please... Even guys using shoulders to hit are getting flagged for helmet-to-helmet. Defense is getting sloppy because guys are avoiding fines and will get worse if suspending comes into play. — Phillip Daniels

We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it's over it's over and you do in the next one as well as you can. Plenty of managers who have won the Champions League will not be considered great managers. — Arsene Wenger

I really enjoy the football season. — Jimmie Johnson

I have been keeping myself fit. I am going on holiday next week in the Mediterranean so that I can really unwind after the football season and have a rest. — David Ginola

Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys. — Joshua Bell

Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves. — Bill Shankly

A great deal of it is mental, the ability to learn within the game, to perform at a high level - often with injury - and to weather the ups and downs of an emotional game through a 16-game season. Also, there is the willingness to prepare in the offseason, the film room, to learn the scheme and execute without a lot of repetition - that's football character. — Brendan Daly

There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both. — James Reston, Jr.

Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much. — Michael Wilbon

He came in shouting 'goal of the season' - typical Jonjo. He's got that in the locker. — Garry Monk

You can win the Champions League in the worst season. — Roberto Di Matteo

It's football season; anything can happen. — Troy Brown

You don't realize how long that NFL season is. It's a long season, especially in your first year. Not only do you spend a lot of time preparing for the draft and working out, but they you have OTAs, minicamps, training camp, preseason games. By the time you get to week six you've already had one of the longest years of your football life and you still have 11 weeks to go, plus the playoffs. — Giovani Bernard

We all have personalities, but in football a lot of times you don't talk about that because you want to focus more on the grit and grind of the season, instead of people's personal styles or worldly habits. — Dhani Jones

Though I hope to have a few more seasons still in senior football, I am studying to be a physiotherapist and masseur when my playing days are over. We married men have to look to the future, you know. — Bob Paisley

Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated. — Megan McCafferty

I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time. — Jerry Ferrara

You never judge a person if they're going through their downs because you always stick with them when they're going through their ups. If you stay in football business long enough, you're going to have some bad games and you're going to have some bad seasons. — Ray Lewis

When Zinédine Zidane retired, he said he'd never be a manager and it wasn't in his plans. But after two years out, he missed football a lot. I think he retired a little bit early, he could have gone on for at least another season, and it would have been a pleasure for us to have him. — Michel Salgado

Everybody is a football senator for a while, but it is a much shorter season and there are not that many teams that are on top, and baseball is just built into the American psyche. — Jay Rockefeller

I've always felt like the most improvement you can make is from year 1 to year 2, much like a college freshman who the most improvement he can make in an entire one year of college football is going from year 1 freshman year to his sophomore year. Like a pro football player going from his rookie season to his second season. There's a window there that will never come again that you have a chance to making your biggest strides. — Jim Harbaugh

I like watching sports. I like going to sports games and that's kind of my life during football season for sure. — Kris Allen

I play football every Tuesday and Thursday early in the season. I am smart enough at the game. I score a lot of goals. I wouldn't be the best in the world but I am OK. — Usain Bolt

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