American Football Quotes

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
- Oscar Wilde

Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.
- Tony Kornheiser

The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
- Phyllis Diller

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

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

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.
- Red Smith

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.
- Irwin Shaw

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

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
- Frank Gifford

Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury, and extreme violence, whereof proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded.
- Thomas Elyot (1531)