Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn’t lend itself to histrionics. You ‘take in’ a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying. – Charles Krauthammer
I don’t think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: ‘Are you winding me up?’ – Jermain Defoe
I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don’t go to games. – Bo Jackson
In all the years that I’ve been in football – I went directly from coaching to broadcasting – I never really had a lot of experience watching it. – John Madden
I was just a kid who had arrived in the world of professional football and thought he could do anything he wanted. But I have learned from my mistakes. I have done everything to change, both on and off the pitch. – Antoine Griezmann
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
We know, in Wales or in England – you simply can’t trust Labour on the NHS. In England, we are delivering for patients while Labour just use the NHS as a political football. We won’t let them; we’ll always fight for the NHS. – Andrew Lansley
Once you get into the NFL, it doesn’t matter what draft pick you are, what round you are, if you’re undrafted or not. It’s football time again. The draft, all of that doesn’t matter anymore. – Austin Seferian-Jenkins
The idea that I can provide for my mother and play at the highest level in the world for football and compete against the best guys in the world – it’s a very exciting idea. – Austin Seferian-Jenkins
We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer – August in New Orleans – and my skin would turn red. They’d call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red. – Aaron Neville
The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons. – Bill Parcells
In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are. – Arnold H. Glasow
When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. – Bobby Fischer
My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches. – Amy Klobuchar
I think that people that don’t really understand the game of football and are just fans that think people just show up on Saturday and go, I don’t think they understand the work that we put in here and what our schemes are and what we’re trying to do. – Austin Seferian-Jenkins
That’s kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that’s hasn’t happened. – Brett Favre
When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260. – Bill Fagerbakke
Lets be honest: I’m an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off. – Bill Goldberg
You can’t really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it’s just two different ends of the totem pole. – Andrew Bogut
Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts. – Bob Lilly