“You just can't believe how quickly things happen in football and the way life turns. I went from being the bad guy, the worst player who gets all the criticism, to being the player who makes the difference and scores the important goals.” WayBelieveImportantHappensGuyTurnsGoalDifferencesPlayerWorstFootballCriticismThings HappenScoreBad Guys Author:Luis Suarez
“It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.” TryingGuyDecisionTeamInformationFootballFootball Team Author:Bill Belichick
“Some guys are football smart and they're not smart in other ways. Other guys get 1500 on their SATs and can't get a double-team block right. No, that definitely, in my experience, sometimes it correlates, sometimes it doesn't. I don't think you just take it for granted.” ThinkingWaySometimesGuyTeamFootballSmartBlockGrantedSatOther Guys Author:Bill Belichick
“Some guys, football comes really easy to them; they can see what all 22 players are doing, can see what all 11 guys are doing on their side of the ball, how it all fits together. It's easy for them.” TogetherGuyEasySidesPlayerFootballFitBalls Author:Bill Belichick
“I was always the underdog that everyone identified with, and I still think I'm that way. But if you're on the other side of the fence on a certain issue, your opinion is going to change. And that was the part I was scared of, because I built my reputation on being this guy who's all about football - and I am, and I'm still the same guy, that doesn't change.” IfsThinkingWayStillsGuyCertainSidesOpinionIssuesFootballBuiltScaredReputationFenceThis GuyUnderdog Author:Andrew Hawkins
“Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar Wilde scene. Even though I also knew there was such a thing as the Harvard-Yale game, I was still a little surprised that Harvard had a football team. I just assumed if there were such a thing as gay people, that they were nothing like us. Little did I know that probably half the swim team at Yale was gay.” PeopleIfsKnowsKindLittlesStillsGuyGamesCitiesHalfTeamEffectsFootballSceneGaySwimOscarsHarvardGay PeopleFootball TeamKansasYaleCapesWildeKansas CityGnarlySwim Team Author:Kevin Sessums
“You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!” ThinkingCharacterGuyFootballFairsBiggerCastsCornersSillyTeenagerRelaxHidingPretendingThrowingTwilightAround The Corner Author:Anna Kendrick
“Even a hundred and fifty years ago, football was popular because it provided a manly spectacle that lots of men needed, after the industrial revolution. We went from a culture that lived out doors and expanded the frontier and fought the Indians to a bunch of guys in offices. So football provided this jolt, a kind of exalted cult of masculinity. And it still does that. Perhaps even more so today.” MenYearsKindDoeStillsTodayGuyCultureDoorsFootballRevolutionNeededOfficeHundredYears AgoBunchFiftyCultMasculinityFrontiersExaltedManlyIndustrial Revolution Author:Steve Almond
“Obama said, basically, "I wouldn't let any son of mine play football, though I do watch." And that struck me as remarkable! It's like he's saying, yeah, let some other set of parents or guardians put their boys up for that kind of punishment (and for my amusement). But not mine! It's just abject hypocrisy from a guy who should know better.” KnowsShouldKindSaidPlayGuyParentBoysWatchesFootballMinesSonYeahPunishmentHypocrisyRemarkableAmusementGuardian Author:Steve Almond
“My prototypical quarterback is a competitive guy that's a winner, somebody that has great athletic instincts, somebody who is very accurate throwing the football, a quick-minded guy who can think fast on his feet and can make decisions quickly, someone who has leadership ability, an understanding of timing and can make really good decisions.” ThinkingGuyUnderstandingAbilityDecisionFeetFootballInstinctWinnerThrowingAccurateTimingAthleticQuarterbackGood DecisionGreat Athletic Author:Jim Harbaugh
“I'm a tough guy, but I'm a good guy, I'm durable because when you play football they want you being tough, not just because you sprain your ankle crying "Mama, mama!"” WantPlayGuyCryFootballToughMamaGood GuyAnklesTough Guy Author:Mr. T
“As a young rookie NFL player, you go to the rookie symposium and the one thing they tell you is, "You guys know what the NFL stands for?" Everybody looks around like, "National Football League...?" The guy's like, "Nope - Not For Long." They tell you right there to get prepared for your second life. You take that in, and I've always been one to prepare early, to see ahead and anticipate and believe in great things happening, and they do. I'd already known that concept and appreciated that concept, but for me, I was always going to be here for a while. I just believed in that.” KnowsBelieveLooksLongYoungGuyKnownPlayerOne ThingFootballHappeningsConceptsPreparedThings HappenGreat ThingsLeagueNflAppreciatedAnticipateJust BelieveRookiesNfl PlayersSymposium Author:Russell Wilson
“A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.” FilmGuyTeamFootballCreaturesFootball TeamStraight Up Author:Terry Crews
“The way I wrote it is a nice and enjoyable way to write stories, to pretend to say something when you're really saying something else. "Hey guys, come, I'll take you a football match." They all come - and you suddenly take them to watch theater play on the stage instead. In Istanbul Istanbul, I pretend to talk about torture and politics, but I don't actually. Instead I talk about hope and hopelessness, darkness and light, good and evil, love and separation.” WritingGuyEvilDarknessNiceFootballSeparationTortureGood And EvilHopelessnessEnjoyableLight And Darkness Author:Burhan Sonmez
“I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.” GuyFootballRidiculous Author:Alex Kapranos
“You're never going to get rid of the injuries. The injuries are going to happen as long as there's football, especially the way it's always been played. So that's something that won't go away. But I guess they're trying to do the best they can to reduce those injuries and really take guys out of harm's way as much as they can.” TryingLongGuyFootballInjuryGoing Away Author:Donte Stallworth
“My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can't watch it together. Football's a violent anger in our family dynamic.” WholeTogetherGuyGamesSidesWatchesFansFootballMomBearsUglyMy MomViolentOur FamilyBasementsVikingsUpstairsPackersStepdadsPacker Fans Author:Ashton Kutcher
“I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.” WorldPersonsGuyWinningIndividualLeftGoalPlayerTeamFootballWorriedTitlesRememberedDecentBeing The BestAwardsRetiringGood PersonBest FootballFootball PlayerBeing A Good PersonScoring GoalsDecent Guys Author:Lionel Messi
“You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.'” KnowsPersonsHas BeensPlaySchoolGuyFootballPromSchool Plays Author:Donny Osmond
“Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.” ShouldHumorFunnyGuySportsBusinessFootballGeniusAthleteSillyDumbNflUnfortunateRugbyAmerican FootballBest FootballFootball PlayerGreat SportsPro FootballBest AthleteSports FootballFunny SportsFunny FootballFunniest SportsFunny American FootballNfl FootballAnnouncersNfl PlayersStupid SportsReally DumbDumb SportsHilarious SportsSports StarsAflPro Athlete Author:Joe Theismann
“For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fighting or throwing punches or balling my hands in fists all day. I'm not interested in guns, I'm not interested in football or stereotypically masculine things, so I'm going to skate in a fashion that is manly for Johnny Weir.” I CanHandsBigsGuyFightingStrongFashionFootballGunThrowingNot InterestedFistsMasculineManlySkatesThrowing Punches Author:Johnny Weir
“[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym” IfsKindTwoWould BeSchoolGuyGirlNamesGivenStarsParentMorningMeditationMagicTeamFootballFlowerMomBirthFinalsWork OutCaliforniaGradesGymBusElectricityFrontiersHippieFootball TeamCertificatesLennonOptionalPoppiesBirth CertificateNorthern CaliforniaLennie Author:Jandy Nelson
“We were defined by what we did. What we had to do. I think this is why guys like football, and why they join the army, because as long as you are playing the game or following orders you do not have to figure out who you really are.” ThinkingLongGuyOrderGamesFiguresFootballArmyFollowingDefinedJoining The ArmyFollowing Orders Author:Pete Hautman