Football Creativity: America's Favorite Sport

                           A Month of Football Quotes

Day 1

Football, like life, is about change. --Hank Stram

Day 2

There are few secrets in football. So execute. --Hank Stram

Day 3

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them. --Vince Lombardi

Day 4

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. --Don Shula

Day 5

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football. --John Heisman

Day 6

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are. --Arnold Glasgow

Day 7

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. --Erma Bombeck

Day 8

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. --Frank Leahy

Day 9

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up. --Knute Rockne

Day 10

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit. --Jack Kemp

Day 11

Football is not a contact sport. Football is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. --Duffy Daugherty

Day 12

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins. --Paul Brown

Day 13

I love football. I really love football, As far as I'm concerned, it's the second best thing in the world. --Joe Namath

Day 14

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. --George Will

Day 15

Football Is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. --Joe Namath

Day 16

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political compaign. --Walter Lippmann

Day 17

Politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it important. --Eugene McCarthy

Day 18

Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure. --Knute Rockne

Day 19

In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are. --Arnold H. Glasow

Day 20

Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half. --Paul Bear Bryant

Day 21

Concentrate on winning the second half. --Darrell Royal

Day 22

Success is not forever and failure isn’t fatal. --Don Shula

Day 23

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period. --Lou Holtz

Day 24

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. --Dennis Bergkamp

Day 25

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. --Vince Lombardi Jr.

Day 26

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't. --Jerry Rice

Day 27

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. --Jean-Paul Sartre

Day 28

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. --Terry Pratchett

Day 29

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. -- Elbert Hubbard

Day 30

Football is the ballet of the masses. -- Dmitri Shostakovich

Day 31

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers. --Max McGee Green