- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football Quotes
Reflections from the field, the sideline, and the stands.
This set of football quotes draws on players describing what the game demanded of them, from proving doubters wrong despite their size to naming the skills that earned them a nickname. A few speak plainly about football being central to who they are, not just a pastime. For more on the people who play it, see our Football Players quotes.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football, no one wants to ram into people. It's not human nature. You have to have a lot of incentive to ram into somebody to benefit others.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say football is very unnatural sport. Nobody loves to just ram into people.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too.
- Highest Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud... He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.
- Photography
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
We would get 20 different angles and then cut them all together. That's what I called it at the time - the 'cubistic' treatment of shooting football. It was the same thing Picasso did except we did it with a football play. It's taking a single image and looking at it from multiple perspectives.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when we were making 'They Call It Pro Football,' which was our 'Citizen Kane.' The first line is 'It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.'
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020