- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football, at the end of the day, is a little kids' game that grown men get to play. I'm just privileged to get to do that every day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played college basketball. When I first decided I was going to play football, there were a lot of people telling me that I wasn't going to make it.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, trying the NFL and trying this football thing, because of the home and what I went through in there, to me, it was no big deal. It was just another opportunity for me. I didn't see that bigger, grandiose picture of it, I just took it one day at a time, like how I took it in the group home.
- Ride
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- Nov 07, 2020
In football, you have to look out for yourself and know when that ride is over. That extra inch after you've already got the first down - what's that going to get you? Not much.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020