- 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
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out real young as a tight end, but I was never getting the football. I knew when I played basketball, I loved to have control of the ball. When I played baseball, I was a pitcher. I always wanted to be the guy throwing the passes and making a difference, I guess.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played football ever since I was a little boy. Coming from a family of six boys, I guess we learned the game of football from a very young age.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's grossly unfair to judge Walter Payton solely on the yards he gains. He is a complete football player, better than Jim Brown, better than O.J. Simpson.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started, there weren't any arenas. There was football fields, but they would only hold three or four or five hundred people at the most... We played a lot of high school auditoriums and things like that - a lot of churches... but boy, it has changed.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
NASCAR stepped up their safety concepts, and I think the drivers feel NASCAR is doing everything that can be done. So we are a little behind NASCAR in that respect. Someone in NASCAR realized there were certain things that could be done to make it safer. The same thing has to happen in football.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love playing football, and ultimately, that helped me get over my anxiety problems.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like the way football is played in England: the speed, the style of play, the high rhythm.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still speak with David Silva. We have a personal relationship, and we talk about personal things, but we've not got into football that much.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020