Football Quotes - page 51

How much motivation are they going to get by putting a quote from me on the wall saying that I believe in my football team [...] If that's where you're going to draw motivation from, hell, we'll probably kick your (butt). (Rex Ryan)
The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games. View quote
Questlove
I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure. View quote
Brett Favre
If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough. View quote
Brett Favre
In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football. View quote
Brett Favre
American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East. View quote
David Mamet
I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers. View quote
Wynton Marsalis
I hope to get out before they start football next year. View quote
Bear Bryant
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. View quote
Bear Bryant
I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience. View quote
Brie Larson
I keep saying appalling. Because, I'm running out words. They've just given in. They've just completely given in, actually trying to run around and play football. (Steve McManaman)
You know that wherever you go, not everyone will speak your language. But go and experience the local culture and try to pick up as much as you can. I certainly think going forward - away from football because football is just a small part of your life - you will grow as a person. View quote
Steve McManaman
We're in a special place, Ian. We've seen some football matches in our time. But, I've never seen? Seen a game like this, or been in a spectacle like this. I'll remember this for the rest of my life. View quote
Steve McManaman
I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation. View quote
Gabriel Byrne
I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs. View quote
Vinnie Jones
Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school. View quote
Vinnie Jones
Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on. View quote
Vinnie Jones
Over the years, I've had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don't think I look intimidating, but I'm sure other people have their opinions. View quote
Vinnie Jones
I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed. View quote
Vinnie Jones
I was obsessed with football when I was growing up. View quote
Michael Sheen
People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony. (Don DeLillo)
I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium. View quote
James Taylor
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf. View quote
Jesse Jackson
I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.' View quote
Billy Corgan
Why do I continue getting daily pliability? Because I want to play football for as long as possible. I love my sport. I love my teammates. I love what i do... to me, sustained peak performance means doing what i want to do, and what I love to do, for as long as I can. View quote
Tom Brady