American Football Quotes

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
- Erma Bombeck

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi

Football doesn't build character, it reveals character!
- Marv Levy

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
- Joe Paterno

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.
- George Plimpton

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

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
- Erma Bombeck

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
- Dave Barry

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
- Vince Lombardi

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