Without black players there would be no National Football League. And the protests around the country are emblematic of the centuries of silence inequality and oppression of black players, coaches, fans and staff. – Roger Goodell
I’m too feminine for this game! – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Lucy van Pelt, after kicking a football backwards over her own head.
People think I’ve got a problem with the press. Actually I have no problem with the press, but just like in football there are a handful who cause problems because they’re disrespectful, they’re lazy, and above all – and this is what really gets to me – they haven’t worked hard to get there. – Gordon Strachan
February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned. – Hunter S. Thompson
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it’s fundamentally a form of entertainment. – Gregg Easterbrook
Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered. – Hunter S. Thompson
Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don’t know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I’m not one to make excuses, so I’ll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats. – Herschel Walker
No, I’m not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout. – Hugh Dancy
I want to be a great player. I don’t want to play for the money. I don’t want to play for fame. I’d just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it’s football. – Gaines Adams
Maybe if I was born in Kosovo, I might not be where I am now, so I need to thank Switzerland, of course, because I went to school there, learnt to play football there, and started my career there. – Granit Xhaka
From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with the same energy and enthusiasm I gave to football without expecting the same results. – Graeme Le Saux
Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them. – Graham Taylor
I was very into football in my early teens and spent six months with Aston Villa, but I never really got further than having trials. I’m also into ice hockey. – Greg Rutherford
There’s definitely football in the blood, but my body made my decision for me that I was going to be an Olympic athlete instead. – Greg Rutherford
The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking. – Hale Irwin
You know that if you play football, you have to try to do the maximum, so I’m always doing the maximum for myself because when I retire from football, I want to sit down and think I did something good – I won this title, and I won this title. People will talk about what you have won, and that is the most important thing in football. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
It was definitely not the salary that made me join Manchester United; I went for football reasons – for the history of the club, the league, the fans, and the coach because he is one of the best in the world. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
The whole object of the players’ association is to try and make sure that any individual is able to capitalise on his ability, particularly in football, which is a very short career. – Gordon Taylor
I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies. – George Smoot
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners. – Hunter S. Thompson
There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits. – H. G. Bissinger
