What Famous People,Football Lovers and Players think about Football in their Football Quotes:

 “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.”
 Bill Shankly quotes (Scottish Soccer Player and Manager, 1913-1981)
 
 
 
      “Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers”
 Merle Kessler quotes
 
 
 
      “Football Is an honest game. It's true to life . It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.”
 Joe Namath quotes
 
 
 
      “Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up”
 Knute Rockne quotes
 
 
 
      “I don't know any other way to lead but by example.”
 santiz Don Shula quotes (American Football coach, b.1930)
 
 
 
      “Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.”
 Dave Barry quotes (American Writer and Humorist best known for his weekly newspaper column. b.1947)
 
 
 
      “Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers”
 Merlin Olsen quotes
 
 
 
      “When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something”
 Dick Butkus quotes
 
 
 
      “Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.”
 Don Shula quotes (American Football coach, b.1930)
 
 
 
      “Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?”
 Jim Bouton quotes
 
      “Football is easy if you're crazy as hell”
 Bo Jackson quotes
 
 
      “If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”
 Erma Bombeck quotes (U.S. humorist, 1927-1996)
 
 
 
      “Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
 George F. Will quotes (American editor and news commentator b.1941)
 
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      “Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.”
 Tom Landry quotes
 
 
      “I don't consider myself as the best player in the world. I'm not obsessed with individual titles. I'm much more interested in being part of a team which wins trophies.”
 Ronaldo quotes (Brazilian Soccer Player. b.1976)
 
 
      “We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it”
 John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)
 
 
 
      “They say Football's a matter of life and death - but it's more important than that”
 Bill Shankly quotes (Scottish Soccer Player and Manager, 1913-1981)
 
 
      “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 quotes (American democratic Senator from Minnesota, b.1916)
 
 
      “An atheist is a guy who watches a Nôtre Dame - SMU football game and doesn't care who wins”
 Dwight David Eisenhower quotes (American 34th President (1953-61). 1890-1969)
 
 
      “Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.”
 Fran Lebowitz quotes (American Writer and Humorist, b.1950)
 
      “Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.”
 Frank Gifford quotes
 
 
      “College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.”
 santiz Elbert Hubbard quotes (American editor, publisher and writer, 1856-1915)
 
 
      “Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.”
 John Steinbeck quotes (American Novelist and Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968)
 

 
      “''It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution.''”
 Zapatista Ernesto 'Che' Guevara quotes (Argentinian famous 'guerrillero' and communist figure in the Cuban Revolution, 1928-1967)
 
 
      “A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air force over there.”
 Ted Solotaroff quotes
 
 
      “Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.”
 Roger Kahn quotes
 
 
      “Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury, and extreme violence, whereof proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded”

 
 
      “If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased”
 Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
 
 
      “Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”
 Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
 
 
 
      “I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.”
 Branch Rickey quotes (US baseball player, 1881-1965)
 
      “Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.”
 George F. Will quotes (American editor and news commentator b.1941)
 
 
 
      “It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players”
 Red Smith quotes (American sports Columnist, one of the United States most popular sportswriters. Pulitzer Prize in 1976.1905-1982)
 
 
 
      “I've never timed myself over 100m, but I have done a test over shorter distances, 20m or 30m, with and without the ball. What's strange is that I'm faster with the ball than without it. Some people are born for distance running and others for sprint”
 Ronaldo quotes (Brazilian Soccer Player. b.1976)
 
 
 
      “It's easier to get an A.A. meeting together than a touch-football game now.”
 Christopher Kennedy quotes
 
 
 
      “You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
 George F. Will quotes (American editor and news commentator b.1941)
 
 
 
      “Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.”
 Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914)
 
 
 
      “As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime”
 Philip Stubbes quotes
 
 
 
      “Football features two of the worst aspects of American life, violence and committee meetings.”
 George F. Will quotes (American editor and news commentator b.1941)
 
 
 
      “When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.”
 Oren Lyons, Jr. quotes
 
 
      “I want to enjoy the full pleasure of our victory, but then turn to new things I hope to achieve in football.”
 Ronaldo quotes (Brazilian Soccer Player. b.1976)