“I was out of the country for a period of time but followed everything closely through other people in our organization and we've made the decisions that we felt were right for the football team and we'll continue to do that and be as diligent as we can going forward.” PeopleMadeCountryFeltDecisionTeamFootballPeriodsOrganizationDiligentFootball Team Author:Bill Belichick
“The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing.” PeopleI CanShowsOpinionPlayerOne ThingMissingFootballCan't ChangeFootball Player Author:Deshaun Watson
“My days are so busy with school and football, it's not often that I get out, anyway. But when I do, I like to meet people.” PeopleSchoolFootballBusy Author:Deshaun Watson
“I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me. That is one of the great things about sports, and frankly, football really does instill that.” PeopleDoeSportsFootballPromiseConcernedGreat ThingsI PromiseInstill Author:Jerry Jones
“I think people are wrong to do it, to compare him to your way of wanting to do it. If you're passionate about it, do it and do it your way. It's not always going to be in front of the cameras after a football game - that was the way I did it. Somebody else has a different way, and that's [James] LeBron, and I know who he is. And I can't get into specifics, but it did upset me that people were calling him out for that because they were just wrong.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayI CanDifferentGamesFrontsFootballCallingCamerasPassionateCompareUpsetDifferent WaysFootball GameSpecifics Author:Andrew Hawkins
“A lot of things create a distraction, and when you're on a quest as a football team you want to limit distractions. I'm very much on board with that because I am a football player, and things can be distracting. We have 53 people that we have to make sure aren't distracted, because we only have 16 turns to do it, so every one matters so much.” PeopleWantMatterTurnsPlayerTeamFootballLimitsBoardsDistractionQuestsDistractedFootball PlayerFootball Team Author:Andrew Hawkins
“I believe it is right when not only me, but also my colleagues - the prime minister, ministers, deputies of the State Duma - when they, like today, for example, participate in two marathons, when they visit football matches, when they themselves take part in sport competitions. That is how, inter alia, millions of people start feeling interest in and love for fitness and sports. I believe it is extremely important.” PeopleBelieveTwoImportantStatesFeelingsTodayI BelieveSportsInterestMillionsExampleFootballAnd LoveCompetitionMinistersPrimeColleaguesPrime MinisterMarathonDeputiesSports CompetitionFootball Match Author:Vladimir Putin
“Polls are now even more meaningless than ever... there was the case of Ronnie O'Brien, the young footballer who incredibly found himself at Juventus, and even more incredibly found himself in the running to win an internet poll of the great club's greatest ever player. The curse ironically struck O'Brien a second time when he was at one point leading Time magazine's list of the Greatest People Of The 20th Century. The error in the polling was soon rectified and O'Brien, happily, is leading a highly successful career playing pro-football with FC Dallas in the American soccer league.” PeopleRunningYoungFoundWinningCareersCasesSuccessfulPlayerFansCenturyMediaFootballInternetErrorsClubsListsMagazinesSoccerLeagueCurseMeaningless20th CenturyPollsFootballerDallasPro FootballPollingSuccessful CareerTime MagazineJuventus Author:Ian O'Doherty
“I have so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people in tennis or football.” PeopleSportsFootballTennis Author:Bernie Ecclestone
“[NFL fans] wish they'd shut up and play football, and I think the vast majority of people, "Shut up and act! Shut up and sing! Shut up and star in your TV show! Just shut up and do what you do, but shut up!" I think they're wearing out their welcome.” PeopleThinkingPlayShowsWishStarsFansFootballTvsMajorityWelcomeNflShut UpTv Shows Author:Rush Limbaugh
“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
“It's great to learn more about sports I'm probably less familiar with - stock car racing, rodeo, e-sports - and realize that a lot of the people at the center of those sports bring the same level of passion, commitment and disciple that I try to with football. Sports is a way of life for billions of people around the planet.” PeopleWayTryingPassionSportsRealizingLevelsCarFootballPlanetsCommitmentBillionsFamiliarRacingDiscipleRodeoCar RacingStock Car Racing Author:Tom Brady
“It's something I think probably every football team and sports team in America deals with is having people get out of their comfort zone and being courageous enough to fix other people and not just focus on themselves.” PeopleThinkingEnoughAmericaSportsDealsFocusTeamFootballComfortZoneCourageousComfort ZoneFootball TeamSports Team Author:Scott Frost
“If we write our laws and design them around the most privileged members of society, i.e., billionaire football team owner, then we forget about the people who don't have the same resources to make an appeal, to fight a wrongful accusation. Those tend to be members of the LGBT community and people of color because those are the people who tend to engage in the work of reappropriation to subvert discrimination. And yet those are the same ones being denied, based on their own identities.” PeopleIfsWritingLawFightingCommunityForgetTeamDesignIdentityFootballColorMembersResourcesDiscriminationAppealsOwnersLgbtDeniedPrivilegedBillionaireAccusationFootball TeamLgbt Community Author:Simon Tam
“The Democrats have to do what he did when [Rahm Emanuel] was chairman of the Democratic House Campaign Committee, recruit veterans, recruit football players, recruit business people. And I think that's what the job of the new party chair has to be.” PeopleThinkingJobsHousePartyPlayerFootballDemocraticDemocratCampaignsChairsCommitteesVeteranChairmanFootball PlayerRecruit Author:Mark Shields
“Part of what depresses me so much about football is that it's so clearly about exploiting people, most of them poor boys of color, because of what they can do to entertain us, not because we have any genuine concern for them as people.” PeopleCan DoPoorBoysFootballColorConcernGenuineDepressingPoor BoyGenuine Concern Author:Steve Almond
“There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing. You listen to people who have finished and nothing replaces playing, but I'm still excited about not having to put my body through what I've put it through. And not feeling the disappointment that I feel.” PeopleFeelsStillsFeelingsBodyNextCareersFootballStriveDisappointmentExcitedFinishedCompletion Author:Ryan Giggs
“Look at the growing number of people that want to ban football. Or ban anything that might hurt somebody. Too violent or too brutal or what have you. There's a segment of our adult population that's still children, still kids.” PeopleWantLooksChildrenStillsMightKidsHurtNumbersGrowingFootballAdultsPopulationViolentBrutalBans Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When I talk about the chickification of either the news business or football or anything else, some people think I'm joking or making halfhearted fun, little swipes here at feminism, but some of it's really serious stuff. You never, ever, ever hear how women are at fault in anything, just like in this abuse business.” PeopleThinkingLittlesFunStuffFeminismFootballSeriousNewsAbuseFaults Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I was in Athens for a football match when 9/11 went down, and it was quite spectacular - we went into this bar and tried to find out what happened, and the bartender said "it's only the American and the Arabs. They're not big football nations." So the feeling was, what's it got to do with us? Why are football games being cancelled in Europe? The intelligentsia in the West feel like they have to figure out the significance of it all, whereas people have other pressing concerns, related to basic needs.” PeopleNeedsFeelsSaidFeelingsBigsGamesNationsHappenedFiguresFootballEuropeConcernDown AndWestBarsRelatedSignificanceSpectacularFootball GameAthensBartenderBasic NeedsFootball Match Author:Irvine Welsh
“Football leads to a crime rate among people that play in the NFL that is less than the gen pop, the general population. The numbers have been run. It's just that people who play football are stars and, as such, what they do occurs with greater media scrutiny. So when one of them happens to engage in some sort of questionable behavior, it happens to (in a lot of it people's minds) speak for the whole sport and everybody that plays it.” PeopleMindHas BeensPlayWholeHappensRunningSpeakStarsSportsNumbersGreaterMediaCrimeFootballBehaviorRatePopulationPopsNflScrutinyQuestionableCrime Rates Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Some people say 'Why is a football coach concerned?' I explained I'm an American first and all Americans should care about justice.” PeopleShouldFirstsCareJusticeFootballConcernedCoachesFootball Coach Author:Jim Harbaugh
“If I may make a football analogy, we're a team whether we're a football team or community or the United States of America. We are part of a team and I believe the people on that team have a right, but they also have the obligation if there is something that is not good or we don't agree on, to speak about it.” PeopleIfsBelieveMayStatesAmericaSpeakI BelieveCommunityUnitedUnited StatesTeamFootballAgreeObligationUnited States Of AmericaAnalogiesFootball Team Author:Jim Harbaugh
“I think the part that people get confused is that when you come in National Football League at a young age, they tell you to try to look for other things to do, and be ready for everything else in your life just in case. But as soon as you have a bunch of success, they think that's the only thing you can do, that you can only be a football player. I think God has gifted me with so many other things other than just football, and that's what I want to bring to the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantTryingLooksAgeYoungCan DoCasesPlayerFootballReadyBunchLeagueThings To DoConfusedGiftedYoung AgeFootball Player Author:Russell Wilson
“People don't understand: I've always been busy. They think that, "Oh, he's too busy, blah blah blah...," but for me, this is how it's always been. I took 18 credits every semester of college, graduated in three years, took graduate school courses, played football and baseball my whole college career. I've never stopped, and that's where that phrase "No Time 2 Sleep" is always true. I get motivated by success, by winning, by being around great people.” PeopleThinkingYearsWholeSchoolThreeCoursesWinningSleepCareersFootballCollegeBaseballBusyCreditPhrasesMotivatedThree YearsGraduatesToo BusyGreat PeopleGraduate SchoolBlahCollege GraduatesSemester Author:Russell Wilson
“If people are standing up there saying, my football team just won with help from God, then obviously God just pissed over the other team.” PeopleHelpingTeamFootballFootball TeamGod Help Author:Neil Gaiman
“I don't think I'm prepared for life in the spotlight. I don't even think I'm really prepared now, but I still don't really feel like I'm in the spotlight a lot. I'm not a household name. I'm not followed around by paparazzi. I still have a very normal life. I'd love as many people to know and like my music as possible, but there's something quite lovely about being able to still go and watch your boys play football.” PeopleThinkingBoysFootballLovelyPaparazzi Author:Jessie Ware
“I've always been terrified of violence which is probably why I keep making violent films - I'm trying to exorcise some demons or something. My mum ended up bringing me up on the edge of a big estate in south London, so I was on the periphery of violence - a lot of football violence and stuff because I was a Millwall supporter. So I've always had a very healthy fear of it, yet at the same time a fascination. I think in all of my films that's a really strong subtext... people who are terrified by violence but are yet compelled by it as well.” PeopleThinkingTryingFilmStrongViolenceFootballHealthyViolentDemonMumSupporter Author:Nick Love
“As a man and as a sports figure, you have to set limits and set boundaries on what can and cannot happen. Once you do that, your family will start to respect you. 'OK, I get it, he's all about football and handling his business,' and that's what I've done. In the past, when I was a young man - a younger man - it was hard for me to say no. Since I'm older, wiser, I know how to handle people, know how to say no, know when something is right and something wrong. I use proper judgment.” PeopleMenDonePastSportsFootballJudgmentBoundariesOur FamilyWiser Author:Vernon Davis
“When you go to Cannes, people are there to fight, to scream - like football, the World Cup. Once I was working on a movie, and then when I went to Cannes, I went there to whistle at all the other movies in competition. You go to help your friends and fight with your friends' enemies.” PeopleWorldHelpingFightingEnemyFootballCompetitionScream Author:Gaspar Noe
“In 2008, when I was wrapped up a very toxic relationship, I lived out of my car for about four months to get away. And what I learned about myself in the process is that sometimes a safety net isn't really that safe; it's what keeps you from flying. That year I went from playing football to being a football player. Football wasn't paying my bills, but people didn't really know how bad it was. That was the one place in the world that when everything else was chaos, I could be great. I think we all have that place where we experience greatness. Football definitely saved my life.” PeopleThinkingWorldSometimesPlayerCarGreatnessFootballSafetyChaosFlyingGet AwayFootball PlayerSafety NetPlaying Football Author:Jennifer Welter
“Most people have wanted me to go back to football. Which is cool, but I think at this point, some things are just more important than football. Football has afforded me an opportunity to take care of my family, to live out a dream, to meet people, to go different places I would never have been able to go. Football has been a huge part of my life. Giving that up isn't an easy thing. But I would rather us live in a country where there is freedom and justice for all than to be catching a touchdown. And like I told my wife, the America that I don't want to live in, is Charlottesville.” PeopleThinkingGivingImportantDifferentCountryDreamCareOpportunityEasyJusticeWifeFootballMy FamilyTake CareMy WifeDifferent Place Author:Anquan Boldin
“Most people don't understand football is a 12-month job. In the off-season - you can attest this with the people from Joe's - anytime we did a shoot or anything, it had to be after 2:00. Because from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., it's football training - get your body worked on, things like that. Then you go into the organized team activities in the spring, you work with your teammates and that's where your bonding comes from. You mold your cohesiveness.” PeopleTeamFootballSpringTrainingTeammate Author:Julian Edelman
“In the end, the game is the same. Football is still football. Now, they may play with different formations, they may have a different idea of training, but the game doesn't alter. I don't mind how any performer - indeed, why should I? How arrogant of me if I did? - manages to get to what they have to get to. It doesn't matter how you get there, as long as it isn't going to destroy other people on the way.” PeopleMindLongDifferentFootballTrainingManageArrogant Author:John Hurt
“I never really looked at it like that, but it's true. It's weird that it's been half my life. Because I lead these two separate lives. I've got my life and Harry Potter, where I travel the world, I make films, I meet amazing people, I do press junkets and stuff. And then I go back home to Leeds, where I live, and I've got the same friends from before. I still go to the pub. I still go to watch the football, soccer. And I go shopping at my local shop.” PeopleWorldHomeFilmFootballSoccerHarry PotterTravel The WorldAmazing People Author:Matthew Lewis
“We've got a great bench of songs, and the people have a really good time at our Stereophonics's shows. People are the same all over the world. If we can play football stadiums and arenas in one country, there's no reason we can't play them in another country. People are people.” PeopleWorldCountryReasonSongFootballGood Times Author:Kelly Jones
“I think when people think of music from coming from Oklahoma, they think of Toby Keith or even Garth Brooks or even Woody Guthrie. People think, "Why do we have to just be about the Bible and about football? Why can't we be about something like the Flaming Lips?" And I salute them! I say, "Well, that's great if you want that."” PeopleThinkingFootballWoodySalute Author:Wayne Coyne
“I had people who were around me, people that I put a lot of trust in that sort of messed me over. So after that I said, only I can look back over my life and say I was responsible for whom I hired. I was responsible for how I managed my money. So I decided I wanted to do it myself. I understood the business of football. And because I can understand the business of football, I decided it's the best decision for me to be an agent. It made the most sense and I think a lot of players are opening their eyes to it as well.” PeopleThinkingEyeDecisionPlayerFootballResponsible Author:Russell Okung
“I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull for you. It's an imminent truth; it's not necessarily a bad thing. You realize - much earlier than my age now - that you won't be able to play for England's football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can't have that life again. Unless you believe in reincarnation or whatever. Reincarnation? That's a whole other question. I find people who talk about that sort of thing in interviews idiotic. And I don't want to go down with them.” PeopleThinkingBelieveAgeRealizingTeamFootballStrongerMortalityReincarnationFootball TeamIdiotic Author:Mick Jagger
“Malcolm Gladwell was on TV talking about wanting to have college football banned. It's interesting just because of him even bringing the topic up. Sooner or later, whether people are for or against it whether they like it or not, that is going to be a discussion that is going to come up. That's how it all starts - someone brings up the inquiry: Should we continue to let our children play Pop Warner, high school, and college football? Ten, 15, 20 years from now, who knows where that conversation is going to be.” PeopleChildrenSchoolInterestingFootballCollegeHigh SchoolOur ChildrenDiscussionChildren Playing Author:Donte Stallworth
“I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.” PeoplePersonsRememberOne ThingFootballLuckyPersonal LifePlaying Football Author:Frank Lampard
“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.” PeopleProblemMotivationalTogetherWinningWorkTeamModernFootballExcellenceUnityComplexesDefenseCoachingWorking TogetherMotivational SportsTeamworkCooperationBest WorkModern SocietyFootball TeamTeam WorkCan't WinInspirational TeamBest TeamWill To WinInspirational FootballBeing TogetherTeam PlayerFootball CoachTeam WorkingCooperation TeamworkSports FootballInspirational TeamworkCooperation And TeamworkGreat FootballFootball MotivationMotivational FootballMotivational TeamworkWinners And WinningComplex ProblemsImportance Of TeamworkInspirational Football CoachInspirational WinningGreat CoachingIndividual EffortTeam EffortTeamwork And LoveGroup EffortWe Will WinUnity And TeamworkFamous CoachWinning FootballWinners MotivationalFootball CoachingFootball LeadershipTeams Not Working TogetherWinners In SportsCombined Effort Author:Vince Lombardi
“Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.” PeopleTryingTwoGamesFootballBlockTwo ThingsMotivational SportsAmerican FootballTacklingBlocking And Tackling Author:Vince Lombardi
“Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.” PeopleNightGamesFootballTvsTheaterSaturdayStadiumsSaturday NightFootball GameMovie LoveMovie TheaterAttendance Author:George Lucas
“I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.” PeopleMadePlayDreamWantedSacrificeAchieveChangedFootballMy FriendsMy FamilyLeavingNew LifeArgentina Author:Lionel Messi
“I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.” PeopleFightingFootball Author:Viggo Mortensen
“The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.” PeopleSometimesSidesFootballNegativeAspectOur Society Author:Jose Mourinho
“I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.” PeopleNeedsTryingLooksChildrenMadeShowsKidsLeaderWatchesFootballSeriousTvsCoupleTrainingAccountsHeyFascinatedTv ShowsDiplomacyRaising ChildrenDown The RoadPlaying Football Author:Dee Dee Myers
“People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.” PeopleEnoughPlayMotivationalGamesLevelsFootballBasketballGood EnoughIrrelevantInspirational SportsDoubted Author:Steve Nash
“Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.” PeopleIfsWayChildrenPlayActorsFunRolesRichFootballLuckyBeachMy ChildrenFabulousGood WayCaribbean Author:Gary Oldman