My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

You have to feel you're the best at what you do. You don't have to come out and say it. But you have to know it within yourself.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.

I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.

I don't want to look at myself like I'm some superhero. But I'm not going to let people wipe their feet on football on my chest.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.

We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games.

In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

Buddhism allows me to feel well, tranquil, and very happy inside. This is good not only for football but for my life in general.

I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.

My fantasy football team got mixed up in another fantasy and now they're stuck on a pirate ship with a chick in a Catwoman suit.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.

Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians.

The thing about special teams - and I think football in general - is sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.

I'm a guy here to play football. I'm not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I'm not into all that.

Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

My door is open 24 hours. We can discuss things - I don't think I'm a magician or the only guy who knows anything about football.

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

I was a college football fanatic, and I wanted to play, not sit on the sidelines. It's tough when you know you're just a project.

Hey, Warren, the Raiders signed you to a seven-year deal. I guess Bill Callahan was right - they are the dumbest team in America.

Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a ­manager would be my first choice.

We didn't have football boots, and we used a broken tennis ball instead of a football. I didn't use a proper ball until I was 11.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him.

I do want to play the short ball and I do want to play the long ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about.

I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

In my first season I was learning about English football in a new team. I scored 13 which isn't bad, but I think I can do better.

I had grown up during a time when Notre Dame football was held in the highest esteem. I listened to all of the games on the radio.

A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.

We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this.

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

Football is a game of opinions, and some people have a great opinion of me, and some people probably think I'm absolutely useless.

I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

He's worse than Dracula because at least Dracula comes out of his coffin now and then. He seems to stay on his line and that's it.

After the game, I'm a completely different person. I drink some beers with friends and try to get my mind completely off football.

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

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