Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.
The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.
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.
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.
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.
We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football team right now.
I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.
The Refrigerator" Perry: "I've been big ever since I was little.
I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.
Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.
I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.
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