FOOTBALL QUOTES
quotations about football
What's the toughest thing in a professional football game? It's being the mother of the quarterback -- toughest thing.
JOHN MADDEN
MNF Football promo, Sept. 7, 2006
When you win, nothing hurts.
JOE NAMATH
When in doubt, punt!
JOHN HEISMAN
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
VINCE LOMBARDI
Gangs all here for the throw down
Rowdy crowd rocking the place
The NFL's beast in a show down
Fired up and ready to play
CARRIE UNDERWOOD
"Game On"
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
VINCE LOMBARDI
There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.
DAN MARINO
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
JOHN HEISMAN
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
ROGER STAUBACH
Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
GEORGE WILL
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
VINCE LOMBARDI
I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important --like a league game or something.
DICK BUTKUS
The thing about football -- the important thing about football -- is that it is not just about football.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Unseen Academicals
Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
VINCE LOMBARDI
Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.
DONALD HALL
Fathers Playing Catch with Sons
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
JOHN MADDEN
I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.
JACK TATUM
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
VINCE LOMBARDI
This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. This is like a nine to five. No guaranteed contracts, and that is the worst thing about it.
TERRELL OWENS
interview, Jul. 8, 2004
Sure, the home-field is an advantage -- but so is having a lot of talent.
DAN MARINO