Best 3811 quotes in «football quotes» category

The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain.

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.

The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.

The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

The NFL has done a great job in giving players information on how to go to a second career after football and how to invest their money while they're playing to ensure when their career is over, that they have something else in place to fall back on. One of the big things the NFL does is promote education in different fields.

The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.

Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.

Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.

The offense sells tickets and the defense wins the games.

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

The one I can't imagine anyone taking seriously, but was one of my favorites, was the mesh football jersey top, paired with a really short pair of athletic shorts.

The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing.

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.

The one great thing about football is that whatever happens it will manifest itself on the pitch. If it's right, you'll see it on the pitch, if it's wrong, it will be on the pitch. In business you can get fellas who are doing crooked deals and nobody knows anything about it. There is an ultimate honesty about football. Politics is part of the lying game, I wouldn't trust any of them. In football you can hide for a while, but ultimately the truth comes out. I always loved that.

The only bowl Rutgers is going to is the one I just got off of.

The one thing that I really dislike, is being alone.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

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

The only moment football really stops is with a penalty kick - and that is a moment that is really dramatic. A penalty kick becomes a Western duel. It's two guys facing each other. Destiny and potential death, whether metaphorical or literal. That's why in the penalty kick at the end of the film, I shot it like an homage to the Sergio Leone Westerns I saw when I was a kid, especially The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

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

The only place where we're not segregated in mass is in sports. You go to a football stadium or a basketball arena, and all of America is there: the wealthy, the poor, the black, white, Latino, conservative, liberal, and we all talk about sports.

The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.

The only reason you get drafted or even looked at by the NFL is because they believe you can play at the next level ... if they believe I can do that, you know I believe I can do it.

The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

The only team that believed in me was the Saints, and I feel like I owe them a great debt of gratitude. I want to give them what they saw in me-a guy who could lead this team to a championship.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.

The only thing that's running well in Bulgaria is the Bulgarian Football Union. Unlike the BFU, many footballers here don't run, they limp.

The only time I got the absolute most insanely nervous in my life was at the Olympic trials, because archery is a horrible spectator sport. Nobody goes and watches an archery tournament. Because the targets are three-quarters of a football field away. Who can tell who's winning? You can't even see your own target from where you are.

The only thing that really bugs me about television's coverage is those damn women they have down on the sidelines who don't know what the hell they're talking about. I mean, I'm not a sexist person, but a woman has no business being down there trying to make some comment about a football game.

The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to EuroDisney.

The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.

The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.

The part of football you don't see with all the buddies I ever had, we might have gone out and thrown some passes, but we never went out to knock the hell out of each other just to do it. You do that when the time comes to push the ball downfield or keep it from going down the field. That's why I think football has a great place.

The people don't take baths and they don't speak English. No golf courses, no room service. Who needs it?

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than simply to pocket six million quid for having been a failure and run for the hills. They want beautiful, flowing football and tangible success, at St James' Park. Fine. I, meanwhile, want Jessica Alba and the Nobel prize for literature. I make my prospects slightly more realistic.

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter.

The positions I played, every play, I was making contact, not like that Deion Sanders. He couldn't tackle my wife. He's back there dancing out there instead of hitting.

The Premier League is the No1 league in the world in many areas. The events, the shocks, the production, the viewing figures, the worldwide audience are by far the best. Do I think at this moment in time it's got the highest quality levels in Europe in terms of Champions League football and domination of that area? In quality terms it needs to rise again to get to that point where it's by far the best in all areas.

The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.

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

The press keep asking me but I will stop when I stop scoring. The problem is football is very ageist. When you reach 30, they keep talking about your age.

The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don't want to see this turned into some great political football

The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old - maybe 35, who knows?

The punt returner got smacked like Nancy Kerrigan's knee on souvenir pipe night.