Top 80 Football Players Quotes

Normal athletes couldn’t do what Premier League football players can do.

You walk into a room and there’s already judgment. You know, like football players can’t act or you’re going to come in and be stiff.

Without a doubt, one of the toughest football players to ever play the game is Tom Brady.

When you look at what we want our individual player to represent from that makeup, if you will, we’re looking for mentally and physically tough players who are smart and want to compete. And when you say smart, you’re talking about situational awareness. Guys that are instinctual. That are smart football players.

Football players have to grow up very fast. It’s a tough life sometimes.

My brothers played football. In fact, I was an absolutely enormous Packer fan, and because I was raised in such a football-centric community, I have always had a terrific admiration for football players.

For some reason in today’s society, people look up to football players and you have a voice. And it’s because of that voice you have the opportunity to impact people’s lives.

I have a lot of college football players in my Brain Bank with CTE.

Football players win football games.

We get so enamored by speed, size, vertical jumps, and all these other measurables and tangibles. But what makes a great football player isn’t size or speed. Great football players know how to play the game, and they push harder than guys twice their size.

Our daily work ethic – that need to always do better and top our last performance – is what makes USWNT football players who we are.

I’ve long been offended by not-so-godly pro football players I’ve known who showed up for pregame chapel – Sunday-only Christians rubbing the proverbial rabbit’s foot – then after victories declared it was ‘God’s will’ that their team won.

As a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.

When I was really young, the women’s national team wasn’t on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.

There’s some football players that I’ve learned a ton from, just guys I’ve watched that, unknowingly, just from the film they’ve put on and what they’ve done on Sundays and what they’ve put on film, I’ve learned so much from it. Guys don’t even know that.

Coach Amodu has coached the cream of Nigerian football players and I had the privilege of working with him albeit for a very short time during the preparations for the two-legged Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Egypt.

Harvard has plenty of people that are way more important than football players.

Athletes are going to tease each other. Football players want to be baseball players. Baseball players want to be football players. Basketball players want to be baseball players, and vice versa.

I had a lot of friends who were also football players. Some of them ended up in prison, some of them had injuries. I think of my group of friends, I am the only one who is a professional footballer.

By high school, I was already tall – 5-foot-8 – and one day I made the mistake of wearing green tights. The football players all started calling me the Jolly Green Giant.

If you finish the season as a champion and, on top of that, break some records – we would make history as a club and also us as football players.

I hope that all the Indian football players who will be with me under my coaching will show their talent and come out with great success.

There is so many good people in Africa. And a huge talent among the football players.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don’t have the experience off the field.

People put football players up there for being tough, but if you look at the schedule and the actual minutes played, NBA players are among the greatest athletes on the planet. There’s no question about it.

I was in the top 1 percent of football players. Indie guys are in the bottom 95 percent of wrestlers.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

Having a father as a football and a baseball coach, I grew up around college baseball players, college football players, like, I just knew sports my whole life.

I’m 28, your career is a long time. We’re not tennis players or football players. I’m just about reaching what should be my peak year.

There’s so much built-up camaraderie and sacrifice, and football is such a tough man’s game. I think that’s why it’s so popular. That’s why so many blue-collar communities and people can really feel attracted to this because it is a blue-collar struggle that football players go through.

I’ve played lacrosse players, football players, basketball players. I think that’s just because of how I’m built. I look young, and I’m also a big person.

So many kids want to be football players, and to still feel like I’m living the dream at 37 is amazing.

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

A football club’s board of directors’ job is to attract and get the best football players and keep them at the football club.

I came from a long line of football players.

Football players are creative when they’re in the moment.

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

Back in the day, when I was a university professor, I used to teach a class in Human Anatomy and Physiology. This class was popular with the football players, who all took it under the tragic misapprehension that it would be easy.

Certainly, our work has identified CTE in many professional football players, but we’re also seeing it in a very high percentage of college players.

A lot of sprinters aren’t football players. I’m a football player. That’s the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game. I’m totally different than any other track guy.

On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

The paid professionals who navigate the complications of playing their sport during a pandemic at least share in the financial rewards. Far worse off are college football players – who lack the union protection and financial resources of their professional counterparts.

What’s so amazing in today’s society is people look up to football players. And as a football player, you have a platform. And it’s so much more important than any touchdown or trophy or anything you could win with football. Its taking that platform and be able to influence people.

Most schools, the football players are kind of the kings in school.

You can’t have enough good football players.

I’m not a sports fan, but I remember watching highlights with post-rock guitar instrumental music over these slow-motion shots of football players. It’s triumphant, and it’s emotional, and that’s what sports are for.

I think a lot of times with football players, we’re just head down, grinding away, maybe not enjoying it as much as we should.

The fact is football players get beat all the time in the course of a game. But if it happens to a defensive tackle, it’s usually 5 or 10 yards. With us, it’s 76 yards.

When I came on the tour, I thought, ‘Why don’t they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?’ Because I’ve got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, ‘Hello, how are you?’ out there.

You’re convincing these big, tough football players to wear what was essentially women’s lingerie. There was a little bit of a Jedi mind trick that needed to take place. The product really spoke for itself once guys felt it and touched it.

I’d followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.

There’s a reason that football players, that still choose to come over to train MMA. They’re professional and phenomenal freak athletes and they know how to work as professional athletes. They know how to get better and know how to improve.

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren’t focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports – or in business.

A lot of kids, especially football players, had been using Twitter for recruiting.

Our parents helped us, or we wouldn’t be here. Lacy Van Zant and my mother used to sign for amps or loan us money to get to the gig or take us in their car. It’s just like little sports guys – Little League and football players – whose parents help them. That’s why they get good.