Football Fan Quotes - Page 2

• They whipped us like a tied up goat.

  Spike Dykes

  Football, College, Goats

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• There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Motivational Sports, Adversity

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• If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.

  Murray Warmath

  Football, Team, College

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• It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.

  Knute Rockne

  Football, College, Nfl

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• After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that.

  Bobby Bowden

  Football, College, Events

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• The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Teamwork

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• It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Math, College

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• Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

  Darrell Royal

  Football, College, Two

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  I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

  Knute Rockne

  Football, Prayer, Player

  "Text of Bush's Notre Dame speech". edition.cnn.com. May 20, 2001.

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• I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

  Barack Obama

  Football, Son, Thinking

  "Barack Obama Is Not Pleased". Interview with Franklin Foer, Chris Hughes, newrepublic.com. January 27, 2013.

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• I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Football, Motivational Sports, College

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• The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

  Knute Rockne

  Leadership, Football, College

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

  John Heisman

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.

  Bob Devaney

  Football, Winning, College

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• Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Wife, Married

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• Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

  Oscar Wilde

  Football, Games, Gentleman

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• My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.

  Bowden Wyatt

  Football, Player, College

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• Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.

  Spike Dykes

  Football, College, Afternoon

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• They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.

  Darrell Royal

  Football, Real, Cutting

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• I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'

  Walt Garrison

  Football, Texas, Looks

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• It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

  Alisher Usmanov

  Football, Games, Fans

  "Usmanov's responses to Guardian questions". Interview With Ian Cobain, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.

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• It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship with our clubs, and I think that we are secretly convinced that none of the other fans understands quite why we have been harder hit than anyone else - we are forced to mourn in public, surrounded by people whose hurt is expressed in forms different from our own.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Hurt, Real

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• Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Disappointment, Fans

  Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.14, Penguin UK

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• He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Football, Thinking, People

  "Aaron Rodgers jabs Russell Wilson: 'I think God was a Packers fan tonight'". www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2015.

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• I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic.

  Steve McManaman

  Football, Racehorses, Fanatics

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