“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesBigsKidsRememberGamesHouseFunGrowsCitiesGrowing UpChildhoodFrontsFootballBasketballNormalNeighborhoodYardsNew OrleansFootball GameBig CitiesTouch Football Author:Eli Manning
“My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.” GamesWinningMemoriesFrontsFootballBrotherDadMy DadMy FavoriteMy BrotherBowlsFloridaYardsPlaying FootballFavorite Memories Author:Eli Manning
“Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn't score. So what does that say?” DoeRememberChanceFiveMissingFootballEnglandVideoManagersSoccerScoreTapeYardsScotlandChairman Author:Berti Vogts
“At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.” FirstsTwoLevelsFootballHighestManagersSoccerYardsChairman Author:Bob Paisley
“The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident.” FiveFootballSevenYardsIncidentsCommentatorsReferee Author:Peter Drury
“I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.” ThinkingMenWantMeanFrontsFootballThrowingYards Author:Alec Baldwin
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.” RunningFacesLibertyFourFeetMissingFootballBasketballCourtFortyYardsNinetyTorchesDimesSprint Author:Donald Hall
“I approach football like a street-ball game, like I'm playing with the fellas in the yard.” GamesStreetsFootballApproachBallsYardsBall GamesFellas Author:Simeon Rice
“In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust.” ThreeFootballCloudsDustYardsSeventiesTouchdowns Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Kenny wasn't the quickest of movers but he was 20 yards quicker than anybody else with his football brain and he would be in position before any defender knew what was happening. I've always said the best signing that Liverpool ever made was Kenny Dalglish.” MadeSaidWould BeBrainPositionFootballHappeningsYardsDefendersSigningLiverpoolKenny Author:Ronnie Moran
“Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.” KnowsShouldMindLooksPlayKnow HowDoubtFootballFameExcuseArguingHallsYardsHall Of FamePro Football Author:Herschel Walker
“A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.” NeedsWellsLooksMadePlayActionTermLinesTakenFootballDrawsCoachesBoardsAcademicYardsFootball CoachBetween The LinesTouchdownsBlackboard Author:John O. Brennan
“Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.” MenTryingHumorHandsFunnyFootballHugeJazzDanceDrivenYardsJazz Hands Author:Craig Ferguson