Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport. – Marta
Football is a bit like chess: it’s not just the piece being moved that matters; it’s also the effect that move has on all the other pieces. – Mal Peet
As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing. – LaDainian Tomlinson
If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football. – Keyshawn Johnson
I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago. – John Woo
I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it’s bad, it’s like some crazy college guy watching a football game. – Melissa McCarthy
A lot of things look good on an academic’s blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It’s almost like a football coach, when you draw the X’s and O’s: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown. – John O. Brennan
While I’m more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance. – Marcus Samuelsson
If you’re talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you’re talking about football, I don’t have to take a back seat to anyone. – Joe Greene
Sometimes English football takes pride in having the lowest yellow-card count in Europe, but of course it will have if you can take someone’s leg off and still not be booked. – Luis Suarez
I started surfing when I was working on ‘The Hunger Games,’ out on the north shore of Oahu, so about four years ago. I used to skateboard as a kid, kind of religiously, until I broke my leg riding in a pool when I was about 14 and I couldn’t play football that fall. – Jeffrey Wright
Baseball, boxing, handball – sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper. – J. R. Moehringer
When I first started playing football, a headache was called a ‘headache.’ And now it’s called ‘a concussion.’ – Junior Seau
The scary thing is that players have a one-upsmanship about money; they sign a contract and they like it until someone signs a bigger one and now they don’t like it. I don’t like that. I don’t begrudge anyone money, but it disrupts the football team. – Joe Greene
Basketball’s eras are defined by teams – Celtics, Lakers, Bulls – and baseball’s epochs are defined by players – Ruth, Robinson, Mantle – but with football, it’s the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears. – J. R. Moehringer
I learned as a mascot that rules don’t really apply to you. As long as you don’t go crazy with that. You want to go be the 12th man on a football play, they might have an objection, but otherwise, if you stay out of the way of the game, you can do most anything. – Ken Cuccinelli
Every kid I’ve been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players. – Kirby Smart
To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it’s what football is to some guys. – Melissa McCarthy
Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn’t do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me. – Kenny Cunningham
I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto. – Margaret Atwood
In the normal process of evaluating the end of the season, I meet with key executives for thorough discussions and evaluations of all aspects of football operations. – Jeffrey Lurie
I’m a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames; I’m really into them. – Jason Kidd
You’re convincing these big, tough football players to wear what was essentially women’s lingerie. There was a little bit of a Jedi mind trick that needed to take place. The product really spoke for itself once guys felt it and touched it. – Kevin Plank
When I went to high school, an all-boys’ school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn’t make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down. – Mike Krzyzewski
My little brothers loved baseball. I’m not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game. – Jurnee Smollett
