Almost any football play, even an off-tackle slant by a running back, offers the balletic beauty of athletic skill and the punishing drama of physical collision. – Richard Corliss
If you’d rather go to the football game than read a comic, that’s fine. I’d rather do both. – Rob Walton
I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There’s something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go. – Randy Couture
On the football field, you’re still going out to there to win. And if you’re not going out there to win, what are you going out there for? – Richard Sherman
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! – Parminder Nagra
Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays… We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more? – Ryan Giggs
When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he’s talking about. He’s been both down in the trenches and in front of the bench as a coach. He knows the game. – Robert Kiyosaki
Maybe I’m stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I’m not telling anybody. – Ricky Williams
The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player. – Ricky Williams
I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people’s stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I’m not. – Ricky Williams
But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques – which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in. – Parminder Nagra
The thing is, my dad’s always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs. – Shakira
Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums. – Oliver Reed
Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star. – Russell Wilson
Well, I don’t think I’ve necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person. – Ricky Williams
And of course in America you’ve got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled. – Parminder Nagra
I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn’t been a footballer, I would have been a musician. – Ronaldinho
By high school, I was already tall – 5-foot-8 – and one day I made the mistake of wearing green tights. The football players all started calling me the Jolly Green Giant. – Rene Russo
It was an ideal day for football – too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players. – Red Smith
If I could play football, I’d play football. But not women’s football – real football. Or I’d just date a quarterback. – Portia Doubleday
Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference. – Robert Griffin III
I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I’m not a Republican. – Sandra Bullock
I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing. – Shaquille O’Neal
Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I’m training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions. – Ray Lewis
Well, I’ve learned a lot from Bill Belichick. I’ve said time and time again, before I got to New England, I thought I knew a lot about football. But I think he taught me a lot from A to Z. I still carry it to this day. – Randy Moss
