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Football Quotes

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"Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper."
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"I'm on the cover of the lingerie football swimsuit calendar this year."
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"Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit."
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"Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him."
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"I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage."
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"Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football."
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"I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for."
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"Football is what keeps me going, what makes me prosper, and what will keep me straight."
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"No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout."
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"In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!"
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"I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school."
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"When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys."
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"I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say."
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"There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer."
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"Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets."
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"But my biggest passion is football."
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"I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please."
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"I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic."
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"That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice."
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"Football players win football games."
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"Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts."
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"I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball."
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"Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can't."
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"Football kicks you in the teeth."
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"This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died."
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"I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession."
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"But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football."
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"We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world."
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"As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins."
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