#Football

"If football players wanted to protect their brains from injury they’d wear astronaut helmets. After all, astronauts have massive IQ’s, so wearing their protective headgear seems like a smart choice."

"You know who’s not money? @JManziel2. Quarterbacks should stay in the pocket, because that’s where the money is. Ask any politician."

"If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not."

"There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky."

"Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that."

"Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career."

"The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them."

"The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter."

"And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball."

"Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes."

"You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football."

"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."

"In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team."

"I grew up in Doncaster and have felt the love for football run through the town; it's for that reason that I have a real personal passion to make Doncaster Rovers a success story."

"I know the X’s and O’s of football. I just don’t know the other 24 letters. And as a writer, this bothers me."

"Quarterbacks shouldn’t leave the pocket, because that’s where the money is. Every politician knows this."

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

"Without football, my life is worth nothing."

"Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy."

"I have a 12:34 representational time dance. I do it at 3:33 every other Tuesday (twice a day). If you’d like to participate in my choreographed dance routine, bring a football helmet and a half empty can of tuna (keeps the stray cats away, because I perform in a gritty, grimy downtown alley)."