American Football Quotes
80 American Football quotes by 56 unique authors
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Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
— Dave Barry
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
— Erma Bombeck
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
— Erma Bombeck
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Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
— Bear Bryant
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When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or…
— Dick Butkus
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All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
— Albert Camus
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American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.
— Unknown Author
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To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.
— Vince Lombardi
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I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.
— Jack Youngblood
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I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in…
— Lawrence Taylor
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The best part of it for me is the idea that this group of young men, who came together and believed in themselves, bought the…
— Tom Coughlin
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I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.
— Bobby Layne
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Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all…
— Bill Parcells
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I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.
— Joe Namath
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It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.
— Vince Lombardi
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There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally…
— Lawrence Taylor
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It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.
— Lou Holtz
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All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of…
— Lawrence Taylor
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Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.
— Bo Jackson
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Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes,…
— Tony Kornheiser
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It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.
— Red Smith
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Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.
— Robert Downey, Jr.
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We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.
— Herb Caen
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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.
— Jim Jarmusch
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Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.
— Ian Shoales
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