Famous Football Quotes

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.
-- Eugene J McCarthy

Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.
-- Eugene J McCarthy

Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.
-- LaVell Edwards

Commenting on LaVell Edwards' contribution to college football: He may not be at the head of the class, but whatever class he is in it doesn't take long to call the roll.
-- Bum Phillips

Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three pretty good recruiting years. We lost some players, obviously, that hurt us, but you always have turnover in college through attrition . That's the nature of the game.
-- LaVell Edwards

Describing an opposing team: Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
-- Don Schula

Edwards commented as he signed an extension to his contract. We have good young players in the program and strong schedules in the coming years. The future looks bright for BYU football. I also want to get a number of projects off the ground before I retire.
-- LaVell Edwards

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.
-- Vincent Lombardi

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
-- George F Will

How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we have a chance to have a good football team. I don't have any health problems. I don't know how any of the stuff gets started.... My health is very good.
-- LaVell Edwards

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another Saturday.' The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.
-- Knute Kenneth Rockne

I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a football game.
-- Howard Roberts

I feel that the progress I have made as a coach, as well as a person, is a direct result of the growth that I have made through my Church callings. I had the opportunity to serve as a bishop in a campus ward while I was still an assistant coach. When I was appointed head football coach in 1972, I decided to approach my role as a coach much the same as I did as a bishop, delegating responsibility to my assistants, putting responsibility on the players for self-improvement in all aspects of their lives, and using personal interviews with players to try to give positive reinforcement and encouragement so that they might do their very best and reach their full potential, both on and off the field.
-- LaVell Edwards

I'm old, old enough to play baseball or football. I'm not eight yet. My Mom told me when you start baseball, you aren't going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn't need to run fast. When I play baseball, I'll just hit them out of the park. Then I'll be able to walk.
-- Edward J McGrath Jr

If we could get the public as involved and as informed about politics as they are about Monday Night Football, we would not have as many problems. People have to get off their duffs and participate.
-- Carol G Hanson

If you are worshipping false gods—such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or gold or silver—and you can tell what a man worships by what he does on Sunday—repent and start worshipping the true and living God, the maker of heaven and earth and all things that in them are.
-- Hartman Rector Jr

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Martha 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 Handey

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh