Football

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anybody deliberately ... unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

- Dick Butkus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

- Tom Landry Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Theodore Roosevelt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings.

- George Will Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.

- Luke Salisbury Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

That Jim Brown. He says he isn't Superman. What he really means is that Superman isn't Jimmy Brown

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When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.

- Max McGee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The honor of my race, family and self is at stake. Everyone is expecting me to do big things. I will. My whole body and soul are to be thrown recklessly about the field. Every time the ball is snapped, I will be trying to do more than my part...Fight low, with your eyes open and toward the play. Watch out for cross bucks and reverse end runs. Be on your toes every minute if you expect to make good. Jack.

- Jack Trice Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

- John Heisman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.

- Deacon Jones Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally brain dead.

- Erma Bombeck Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to lose.

- George H. Allen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think its important.

- Eugene J. McCarthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational 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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents Jim McMahon A great natural leader. Great ability. Great presence. For a guy who was supposed to be blind in one eye, he had as much vision as anyone I've ever seen. He'd know instinctively where he should turn and where he should throw the ball. He was never a problem on the field. He was kind of cocky, but that didn't bother me. He had such a quick delivery and such a natural ability. I told Chicago he'd win them a Super Bowl.

- LaVell Edwards Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When in doubt, punt

- John Heisman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I just wrap my arms around the whole backfield and peel 'em one by one until I get to the ball carrier. Him I keep.

- Lipscomb Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When you are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.

- Duffy Daugherty Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something.

- Dick Butkus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

- Joe Theismann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

- Gale Sayers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

- Theodore Roosevelt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

- John Madden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes