Famous Football Quote

Famous Football Quote

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.
Brown, Paul

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.
Delillo, Don

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

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Lombardi, Vince

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up -- from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's OK You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
Lombardi, Vince

Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Lombardi, Vince

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things-blocking and tackling.
Lombardi, Vince

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
Macleish, Archibald

When you win nothing hurts.
Namath, Joe

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann

Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will

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

Most football teams are temperamental.That's 90% temper and 10% mental.
Doug Plank

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
Heywood Hale Brown

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
Dan Birdwell

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

The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
Phyllis Diller

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
Elbert Hubbard

Seasons change, friends move away, and life goes on from day to day. Flowers fade and streams go dry and many times we wonder why. Yet we can always be assured because God tells us in His Word, that unlike changes in the weather, love goes on and las.

"If your friend says of some picture, ""Yes, but what does it mean?"" ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes."
Stephen Potter