(5751 quotes found)
“Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up”
Knute Rockne
“Marta was watching the football game with me when she said, "You know, most of these sports are based on the idea of one group protecting its territory from invasion by another group." "Yeah," I said, trying not to laugh. Girls are funny.”
Jack Handy
“A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.”
Bill Shankly
“There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.”
Dean Cain
“Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football”
John Heisman
“Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.”
Fran Lebowitz
“If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.”
John Curtin
“Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.”
John Steinbeck
“Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?”
Jim Bouton
“A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.”
Lewis H. Lapham
