Watching Football Quotes

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

  Erma Bombeck

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?”, p.151, Open Road Media

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• Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Funny, Friendship, Football

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body.

  Dave Barry

  Football, Past, Player

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

  Roland Joffe

  Football, Ideas, Popcorn

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• I've grown up watching football my whole life.

  Marisa Miller

  Football, Whole Life, Whole

  "Score! Marisa Miller Is The Sexy New NFL Spokesperson!". hollywoodlife.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Politics is like watching football. Yes, you can see it directly on your screen, but I think a lot of people want to have some understanding of what's happening, why the play is unfolding the way it is, and I think that's where it can help them, not to render judgments but to help people make their own judgments in a more informed way.

  David Gergen

  Football, Thinking, Yes You Can

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• I enjoy watching football on TV. Many times I can visualize the whole field, even on the TV screen, because I still know enough about what the teams are doing.

  Tony Dungy

  Football, Team, Fields

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

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• Only two players made me cry when watching football, one was Diego Maradona and the other Ryan Giggs.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Football, Player, Two

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• Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.

  Luke Salisbury

  Funny, Football, Eye

  Luke Salisbury (1990). “The answer is baseball: a book of questions that illuminate the great game”, Vintage Books

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• I was obsessed with my dad, and my dad would refuse to go to church with us on Sundays because football was on. So I thought to myself, how could I spend more time with my dad? I started watching football with him every Sunday, and it was just something I fell in love with.

  Charissa Thompson

  Football, Dad, Sunday

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I drink a lot of everything; beer while watching football. I have a taste for whiskey, but Jack Daniels and ginger is about as fancy as it gets with me.

  Jeff Gannon

  Football, Beer, Fancy

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• As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.

  Beth Ditto

  Thanksgiving, Football, Running

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• Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America's obesity statistics. Personally, I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie, and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.

  Stephen Colbert

  Football, Country, Aunt

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• My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen...

  Morris Chestnut

  Football, Morning, Holiday

  "Interview: Morris Chestnut and Faizon Love". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 12, 2007.

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• I'm a big fan of London in the summertime. English people are dependent on weather to change our attitudes, and, provided it's a decent summer, everyone's spirits are uplifted and the whole place is in bloom. It's a magical transformation. London in the summer, going to see bands play outside, watching football.

  Ed Westwick

  Summer, Football, Attitude

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Thanksgiving is not just a warm, cozy holiday. It's not merely a time of recreation and relaxation and watching football all day. As we give thanks, we need to put our mind, soul and spirit into our thanks and into our praise.

  Tony Evans

  Football, Holiday, Giving

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• Games were moved to New Year's Eve as part of a plan by college football executives where they want to create a tradition of watching football on New Year's Eve.

  Audie Cornish

  Football, New Year, College

  Source: www.npr.org

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