"God bless whoever invented football. It was the English, I think. And what a fantastic idea it was"
Read quote
16 likes
Football quotes
Football
4.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Football
Browse quotes that often appear alongside football — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Football quotes (page 6 of 209)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free."
Read quote
16 likes
"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."
Read quote
16 likes
"There's no substitute for guts."
Read quote
16 likes
"I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football."
Read quote
16 likes
"Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line."
Read quote
16 likes
"Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team."
Read quote
16 likes
"Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan."
Read quote
16 likes
"Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it!"
Read quote
16 likes
"Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!"
Read quote
15 likes
"Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games."
Read quote
15 likes
"If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race."
Read quote
15 likes
"Javier Pastore wouldn't get a beach ball off me if we were locked in a phone box. He's turd. Anyone who thinks he isn't is clueless."
Read quote
15 likes
"We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now."
Read quote
15 likes
"I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game."
Read quote
15 likes
"There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years."
Read quote
15 likes
"Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium."
Read quote
14 likes
"If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you."
Read quote
14 likes
"No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team."
Read quote
14 likes
"I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things."
Read quote
14 likes