Quotes with football

  • When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.
  • In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
  • There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play basketball and football, while all I wanted to do was put on musicals. Mentally, I was always in my own world.

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  • Bennet Omalu No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Frank Gifford Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
    Frank Gifford
    American football player and actor (1930 - )
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  • Bud Grant 'Monday Night Football' has the good and the bad points. The bad point is you have to wait around all day, and it disrupts your schedule for the next week. Now you have one less day to prepare for the following week.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Bennet Omalu A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Bill Shankly A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Vince Lombardi A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Bennet Omalu Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Bobby Bowden All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Barry Sanders As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Beth Ditto As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bennet Omalu As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Bill Belichick Bavaro's probably as tough of a - physically and mentally as tough a football player as I've ever coached. So, I would put him in the rare category there.
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  • Burt Bacharach Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Archibald Macleish Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Bart Starr During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
    Bart Starr
    American football quarterback and coach (1934 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg Everybody who knows anything about me knows all I ever wanted to do is play pro football. But I didn't have the talent, and I got hurt a lot. I'd do anything to be out on the field.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bobby Bowden Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • George F. Will Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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