#football

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?' ↗

— Chuck Pagano

#assistants #being #coach #dad #ever

Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ↗

— George F. Will

#humor #humor

I lost count of the number of referees who came to me both at Derby and Forest and said, 'I'd just like to express my thanks. I love matches involving your team. We never have any trouble with them. ↗

— Brian Clough

#sport #love

once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit ↗

— Vince Lombardi Jr.

#inspirational #paradox #perseverance #inspirational

The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best. ↗

— Jerry Rice

#inspirational #inspirational

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to. ↗

— Pat Summerall

#available #basketball #could #drinks #everybody

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#coming #distractions #football #footballers #get

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#cricket #fan #football #i #sports

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#christianity #football #i #know #nothing

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something. ↗

— Dick Butkus

#deliberately #football #game #hurt #i