Top 60 Football Field Quotes

On the football field, you’re still going out to there to win. And if you’re not going out there to win, what are you going out there for?

Nobody was ever going to tell me that I didn’t belong on a football field. And nobody was ever going to tell me that I couldn’t be great.

I was surrounded by classical music, art and ballet all these things. But they also had a football field and it was at the conservatoire I decided to be a footballer.

I’m not the same without the 10 other guys on that football field playing their tail off to move the ball down the field.

When I see a guy on the football field huffing and puffing, I know I got an advantage over him.

To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

When you go out on a football field, you are responsible for taking care of yourself. The more rules you get, the less players truly take care of themselves.

I always think of it like, you’ve really got to tell the truth when you get on the football field. Do you have talent? Have you put in the effort? Are you stronger, are you faster, or are you not? It happens out on the football field, almost like a truth serum.

When you’re a step onto a football field, never is that more evident that the truth is going to get told.

I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles.

To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field – don’t judge a person’s character by what they do between the lines. Judge a man by what he does off the field, what he does for his community, what he does for his family.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

It is easy to criticize me from behind a pen or a microphone, from someone who never set foot on a football field.

I’m at my best when people are depending on me. If it’s just on me and I don’t have nothing to do, I’m going to be lazy. On the football field, it’s every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.

It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating – on our taxes or on the football field.

I have a lot of competitive juices, and I want to go out and compete on the football field every day.

I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.

I’ve had asthma my whole life. My mom used to hook the generator up to the Suburban and roll the extension cord all the way down to the football field and have my nebulizer hooked up to that so I could take treatments in between offense and defense. I was in the fifth grade when she started doing that.

My thing is yards after catch. I can say it’s one the favorite things to do on the football field.

Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I added five years to his career, and I just think we complimented each other very well and were able to do some amazing things out on the football field.

The mentor thing is overblown to me. I’m going to coach the player. I’m not going to have another player coach the player. They can be friends but when it comes to what I want him to do on the football field, that’s my call, not another player’s call.

Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn’t mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.

If you talk to my former coaches, they’ll tell you that I’m really smart on the football field.

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

For me, any time I’m on the football field, that’s my comfort zone.

When you talk about kicking racism out of football, people automatically assume you are talking about on the terraces and on the football field. But all racists have to do is keep their mouth shut for 90 minutes and they’re fine.

You made it something special. Most of all, I want to thank the fans for your support not through the great times that we shared on the football field, but for the last 17 years of my life. You have supported me through all times.

When there’s something we weren’t prepared for on the football field, you have to be able to use your mind, be creative, communicate, get lined up and get ready to do the play, get ready to execute.

I was very fortunate to have several mentors in my life that believed in my ability on the football field. It was their support that made me believe that I could do it, too.

I would be lying to you if I haven’t been out on the football field and told a quarterback to give me a post route and simulated me catching it and running into the end zone, envisioning scoring that game-winning touchdown.

I’d rather be at home with my family anyway. I’m a completely different person there than on the football field. Ask anybody who knows me. They will all say I’m one of the nicest people you could ever meet.

The movie, ‘Remember the Titans,’ is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor.

We always said it’s not suit-and-tie on the football field.

First of all, we love football. We want to be on the football field as much as we can be. If we can be out there, it may be stupid, it may be dumb, call me dumb and stupid then, because that’s what… I want to be on the football field.

What you think you see and what you think a guy did wrong, maybe he did right. Or you see a touchdown pass, but the guy might’ve been wrong. Something crazy might have happened. You don’t know that. That’s the toughest thing when it comes to judging play on a football field.

A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It’s part ballet. It’s part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

The irony is, when people now compliment my ability to make something out of nothing on the football field, my mom is the one who’s been doing so in real life all along.

You can plan, but what happens on a football field cannot be predicted.

The football field, I’d definitely say that’s my safe place.

I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life.

I just want to maximize my time here on the football field and after that, I don’t know what I’ll do. I can coach, I can do a lot of things.

That’s what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it’s the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.

It’s brutal out on the football field.

I don’t enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people’s amusement. I enjoy it if I’m being paid a lot for it.

My time off is usually spent working out and getting better at football. When I come home and spend time with my little brother, we’re out on the football field. We’re working out or playing Madden. We’re spending time with each other, but our quality time is football.

I think any football is a guy that is able to one, be able to be humble and hungry off the field, but at the same time on the football field understand what they have to get done and be a little bit ferocious.

I’m not Ed Reed. I’m Eric Weddle, and you’re going to get a great Eric Weddle that does a lot of amazing things on the football field. And there’s no pressure; pressure is self-inflicted.

Most people have been on a baseball diamond and a basketball court. At least once in their life, they’ve walked across a football field. But relatively few people have ever set foot inside a boxing ring.

Peyton Manning donated, I think, $10 million to start a children’s hospital here in Indianapolis. Whenever you see something like that, you go, ‘Okay, not only can I be great on the football field, I can also be great off of the field.’

I’ve always been one of the smallest, if not the smallest guy on the football field.