Football quotes

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◆ Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

- Peyton Manning100

◆ Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

- Merle Kessler100

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

- Jim Bouton99

◆ 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 Twain99

◆ Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

- Vince Lombardi99

◆ Football is easy if you're crazy as hell

- Bo Jackson99

◆ Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

- Don Shula99

◆ 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 Olsen99

◆ Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

- Dave Barry99

◆ Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up

- Knute Rockne99

◆ Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers

- Merle Kessler99

◆ Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

- Bill Shankly99

◆ When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.

- Oren Lyons Jr99

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

- George F Will99

◆ 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 Butkus99