Quotations About Football
Related: Basketball, Games, Sports, Baseball, Hockey
Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.
Mary McGrory
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
Dan Birdwell
October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.
Jason Love
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
Frank Gifford
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma Bombeck
Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football.
S.A. Sachs
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck
If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.
Bob Golic
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton
I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.
Tom Tolbert
American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.
Sue Lawley
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
Heywood Hale Brown
Football is not a contact sport. It's a collision sport. Dancing is a good example of a contact sport.
Duffy Daugherty
Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.
Doug Plank