Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. — Frank Gifford
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
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment. — Gregg Easterbrook
I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable. — Branch Rickey
American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party. — Sue Lawley
Professional sports are something they can't control. — Troy Vincent
I love football, football is my life. — Wayne Rooney
Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest. — Tom Landry
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
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. — Vince Lombardi
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite. — Verne Troyer
I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle. — Randy Moss
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
Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like. — Jurgen Klopp
Short Pro Football Quotes
This ain't a football game, we do this every day. — Earl Weaver
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game. — Queen Elizabeth II
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. — Elbert Hubbard
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. — Avery Brundage
Football is a more beautiful game in high definition. — Jose Mourinho
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
Football is like life and I know life. — Rush Limbaugh
The NFL, like life, is full of idiots. — Randy Cross
Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation. — Bob Ufer
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist
Pro Football Player Quotes
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. — Don Shula
I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field. — Walter Payton
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
Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. — Bill Peterson
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
Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental. — Doug Plank
Football, beer, and above all gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time. — Alan Page
You guys line up alphabetically by height. — Bill Peterson
If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something. — Ryan Leaf
I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault. — Jack Tatum
Professional Football Quotes
Coming from losing my dream of playing professional football, not having a college degree at the time, and looking to jump into the business world at a young age was pretty daunting for me. — Lewis Howes
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
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
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like artist.
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton
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
Every professional footballer should seek to play at least one game at Celtic Park. I have never felt anything like it. — Paolo Maldini
That's the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry.
I really loved football from a young age. And my only thought, my only objective in life, was to be a professional footballer. — Paul Pogba
In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown. — Cam Newton
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. — J. C. Watts
As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football. — Gareth Bale
What Is Football Quotes
The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think. — David Icke
Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for. — Ernie Davis
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
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.
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
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
I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me. — Jurgen Klopp
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. — E. M. Forster
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
What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment. — Thierry Henry
Football Support Quotes
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
At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks. — Bill Shankly
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. — Novak Djokovic
When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart. — Eric Cantona
Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day. — John Bishop
Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them. — Graham Taylor
Tottenham Hotspur has a huge following across the world and I have great admiration for the passion the fans show for this team. We are determined to give the supporters the kind of attacking football and success that we are all looking to achieve. — Mauricio Pochettino
Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support in my football and in everything. They've been very close to me and we have a great relationship. — Lionel Messi
You made it something special. Most of all, I want to thank the fans for your support not through the great times that we shared on the football field, but for the last 17 years of my life. You have supported me through all times. — Michael Irvin
The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live. — Boomer Esiason
Positive Football Quotes
Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz
Sometimes as a man, you fear what you can't see. Nobody can predict the future. You don't know what's going to happen. Tomorrow's not promised. The only thing you can do is live your life, hope for the best, continue to have faith, believe in yourself. — Michael Vick
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
Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement. — Dennis Bergkamp
Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two. — Tony Gonzalez
When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up. — Herschel Walker
The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team. — Ron Jaworski
I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach. — Don Shula
Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning. — Ron Atkinson
My fellow players are sometimes occupying the spaces I want to play in. That forces me to adjust my runs, based on the position of my fellow players. Unfortunately, they're often playing in my zones. I think that's a shame — Robin van Persie
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
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 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
Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong. — Chuck Noll
When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us. — Marv Levy
A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them. — Tony Dungy
American Football Quotes
Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow. — Pat Tillman
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. — Lou Holtz
Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic — Peyton Manning
But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime. — Ernie Davis
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
Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day. — Ray Lewis
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
Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn. — Pat Dye
Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father. — Barry Sanders
I have two secret weapons -- my legs, my arms and my brain. — Michael Vick
Sports Football Quotes
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. — Henry Van Dyke
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
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
If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed. — Kurt Warner
It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners. — Roberto Baggio
Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that. — Alex Ferguson
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
There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season. — Darius Rucker
I've been consistent in patches this season. — Theo Walcott
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
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
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
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
In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves. — Bill Shankly
If I know that I am the tiniest speck of dust around for a split second only, then why was I so upset when my fantasy football team lost on Sunday? — Tim Urban
Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate. — Sayings
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
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
I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf. — Joe Namath
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. — Don Francis
My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget. — E. J. Holub
Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies. — Dan Fouts
I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium. — Al Davis
It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun. — John Facenda
Pro Football Hall of Famer is something that everyone recognizes as the pinnacle of any achievement in sport. All the fame and all the recognition that we single out in various industries, the Pro Football Hall of Fame is really special. — John Riggins
On the field accolades are great, but in order to reach your full potential, you have to overstep the boundaries of football and go out into the community and be an All-Pro there too. — Derrick Thomas
I want to be recognized as the best-no doubt about it. When they say all-pro middle linebacker, I want them to mean Butkus! — Dick Butkus
A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are. — Joe Don Looney
No talking. Talking doesn't play football, talking isn't going to make you practice harder or play harder. — Ken Simonton
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. — Knute Rockne
If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent. — Vince Lombardi
Pro sports are a tough business--whether you're in baseball, football, or something else. But when you're running around the bases after hitting a home run or jumping up and down after a touchdown, a little boy comes to the surface. — Roy Campanella
In Montana, they renamed a town after an all-time great, Joe Montana. Well, a town in Massachusetts changed their name to honor my guy Terry Bradshaw--Marblehead. — Howie Long
The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win — Charles Spurgeon
I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing. — Deacon Jones
I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football? — Art Donovan
I'd catch a punt naked, in the snow, in Buffalo, for a chance to play in the NFL. — Steve Henderson
If you're a pro coach, NFL stands for 'Not for long. — Jerry Glanville
Terry Bradshaw couldn’t spell ‘cat’ if you spotted him the ‘C’ and the ‘A’. — Thomas Henderson
The principle is competing against yourself. — Steve Young
The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are. — Betty Furness
Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself. — Ralph Wiley
I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football -- too many -- but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here. — Ricky Williams
Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record. — Pete Rozelle
People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life. — Pete Rozelle
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