Best Football Quotes

When Paul Brown talked contract, the championship game was part of it. We took the championship game for granted.

I could throw a pass to a spot as well as anyone who ever lived - But that's a God-given talent. I could never stand back and flick the ball 60 yards downfield with my wrists like Dan Marino does.

Every football player knows when his time is up.

I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.

I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it.

They say that when you're the champs, everybody will try to beat you. Well, I'm glad we're champs, so bring'em on, bring'em all on. If we die, we ain't gonna die running. It's gonna be a fight.

For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.

A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.

If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

I played football with my whole body - My hands, my head, my face. I did it all.

My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.

I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.

I don't give players a chance to hit me.

I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.

I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one - and stay healthy.

The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

You can do more, you can always do more.

No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

winning is not everything it is the only thing

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Pressue is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.

Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.

I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football team right now.

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith.