Football Quotes - page 47

When I was really little, I was on a Pop Warner squad. I did it for a year. My dad was a Pop Warner football coach. I did it because my best friend was also on this cheer squad, and of course I looked up to my sister who was a cheerleader, so I wanted to cheer. (Ashley Tisdale)
I used to tease the other kids because I played better than them. Then my father said, Come here. Don't do this with the kids, because God gave you the gift to play football. You didn't do anything. View quote
Pelé
Football is the ultimate in team sport. And no individual can win a game by himself. Pelé is a famous name, but Pelé made his goals because another player passed to him at the proper time. View quote
Pelé
I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.' View quote
Pelé
The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world. View quote
Pelé
I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually. View quote
Shania Twain
I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration. View quote
Emmitt Smith
There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move in the end zone. You can see Terrell Owens getting his popcorn ready. You can see Ochocinco doing the Riverdance. But not so much when it comes to ballroom. View quote
Emmitt Smith
One thing I can say about the Dallas Cowboys: They have always had talent around them. They have been one of the most talented football teams in all of football. View quote
Emmitt Smith
Emmitt Smith is in a position, in my opinion, where he should be the highest-paid running back in football. He's a guy who has gone out and led the league in rushing and been productive. View quote
Emmitt Smith
Charles Haley changed the way the Cowboys played football in the 90s. And the reason why I say that is because he was such a dominant force coming off the edge, where it took two and three to block him. (Emmitt Smith)
My idea, my dream, my goal, is to go out and legitimize this sport and compete at the Olympic Games with my peers in the football arena. View quote
Emmitt Smith
My mom said 'you are either going to be in jail, or be killed'. So I decided to do something different because I didn't want to be in one of those positions, so I kind of focused on football and took off from there. View quote
Vince Young
... the National Football League needs "a guardian, not a CEO" to deal with the fact that "the sport is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel. View quote
Frank Deford
I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field. View quote
Eric Dickerson
God blessed me to play football. View quote
Terrell Owens
I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football. View quote
Terrell Owens
I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. View quote
Terrell Owens
I don't have to play football. View quote
Terrell Owens
Maybe baseball has to accept that it is now more like classical music than popular music, with football and basketball - and soccer? - being the Justin Biebers and Lady Gagas of sports. Baseball need not hang its head in shame. A lot of things that are good and worthy are not popular. And baseball is plenty popular, for heaven's sake. View quote
Jay Nordlinger
After all, is football a game or a religion? (Howard Cosell)
And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together. View quote
Joan Collins
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on. View quote
Lou Holtz
If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback. View quote
Lou Holtz
My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. View quote
Lou Holtz