Football quotes

77 football quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines
  • “In Virginia, high school football is a way of life, it's bigger than Christmas day.”
    Hayden Panettiere - Sheryl Yoast
    [Tag:christmas, football, life]
  • “We're in a fight. You boys are doing all that you can do. Anybody can see that. Win or lose... we gonna walk out of this stadium tonight with our heads held high. Do your best. That's all anybody can ask for.”

    Denzel Washington - Coach Herman Boone
    [Tag:football, pride]
  • “The ball is round, a game lasts 90 minutes, everything else is pure theory.”

    Armin Rohde - Herr Schuster
    [Tag:football]
  • “- Coach Herman Boone: What are you?
    - Team: Mobile, agile, hostile!
    - Coach Herman Boone: What is pain?
    - Team: French bread!
    - Coach Herman Boone: What is fatigue?
    - Team: Army clothes!”

    Denzel Washington - Coach Herman Boone
    [Tag:exercise, football]
  • “Once you step on that bus you ain't got your mama no more. You got your brothers on the team and you got your daddy. You know who your daddy is, doncha? Gary, if you want to play on this football team, you answer me when I ask you who is your daddy? Who's your daddy, Gary? Who's your daddy?”
    Denzel Washington - Coach Herman Boone
    [Tag:brothers, father, football]
  • “What family would want a daughter-in-law who can run around kicking football all day but can't make round chapatis?”
    Shaheen Khan - Mrs. Bhamra
    [Tag:family, football, women]
  • “- Coach Herman Boone: What about you? You going to college?
    - Louie Lastik: [laughs] No, not me coach. I ain't a brainiac like Rev.
    - Coach Herman Boone: Think you got a future in football?
    - Louie Lastik: Heck no! I figured as long I'm going to be in school, I might as well hit some people while I'm at it.”

    Denzel Washington - Coach Herman Boone
    Ethan Suplee - Louie Lastik
    [Tag:fighting, football, university]
  • “- Coach Herman Boone: Well I'm very happy to have the approval of a 5-years-old.
    - Sheryl Yoast: I'm 9 and a half, thank you very much.
    - Coach Herman Boone: Why don't you get this little girl, some pretty dolls or something, coach?
    - Coach Bill Yoast: I've tried. She loves football.”

    Denzel Washington - Coach Herman Boone
    Hayden Panettiere - Sheryl Yoast
    Will Patton - Coach Bill Yoast
    [Tag:children, football]
  • “This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law.”

    Denzel Washington - Coach Herman Boone
    [Tag:dictatorship, football, leader]
  • “- Shane Falco: Why me?
    - Jimmy McGinty: I look at you and I see two men: the man you are, and the man you ought to be. Someday those two will meet. Should make for a hell of a football player.”

    Keanu Reeves - Shane Falco
    Gene Hackman - Jimmy McGinty
    [Tag:football, future]
  • “You look like a bunch of fifth grade sissies after a cat fight! You got anger, that's good you're gonna need it, you got aggression that's even better you're gonna need that, too. But any little two-year-old child can throw a fit! Football is about controlling that anger, harnessing that aggression into a team effort to achieve perfection!”
    Denzel Washington - Coach Herman Boone
    [Tag:anger, football, perfection]
  • “Every time I call it a business, you call it a game! And every time I call it a game, you call it a business!”

    John Matuszak - O. W. Shaddock
    [Tag:business, football, game]
  • “They have lots of body parts. Arms and legs and hands, from hospitals and medical schools. And do you know where they store 'em? Right underneath the football field. So while it's fine and dandy to have 100,000 fans cheering for you, the bodies you should be worried about are the ones right under the turf. Set to poke up through the ground and...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Kathy Bates - Miss Sue
    [Tag:death, football, school]
  • “Thirty-two teams, seven rounds, 224 young men who, today, are about to become players in the National Football League. A day where lives are changed, fates are decided, dynasties are born, and the clock is always ticking. Of course, I'm talking about... Draft Day.”
    Chris Berman - Himself
    [Tag:career, football, playing]
  • “- Happy Gilmore: A guy your size, why don't you play a real sport, like football?
    - Chubbs: My Momma wouldn't sign the permission slip. Said it might be a little too dangerous.
    - Happy Gilmore: Yeah, good call.”

    Adam Sandler - Happy Gilmore
    Carl Weathers - Chubbs
    [Tag:danger, football, sport]
  • “Marchino Schisa-So... how hot was Aunt Patrizia today? Buck naked. On a scale of one to a hundred?
    Fabietto Schisa-A billion.
    Marchino Schisa-If you had to choose between Maradona coming to Napoli and screwing Aunt Patrizia... which would you choose?
    Fabietto Schisa-Maradona.”

    Filippo Scotti - Fabietto Schisa
    Marlon Joubert - Marchino Schisa
    [Tag:football, sex, women]
  • “- Maggie: You could have gotten killed.
    - Lucas: Did we win?
    - Maggie: No way.
    - Lucas: Boy. They sure were big.
    - Maggie: I don't want you ever playing football again.”

    Kerri Green - Maggie
    Corey Haim - Lucas
    [Tag:caring, football, worry]
  • Here we pass the ball, you understand that? We're a unit, not a one-man show. The name on the front of the shirt is more important than the one on the back.”
    Marcel Iures - Erik Dornhelm
    [Tag:football, teamwork]
  • I sucked so bad they used to pick me after the white kids. They used to say "Man I can't believe I picked a nigga that can't play".

    Chris Rock - Caretaker
    [Tag:football, racism]
  • “The Bible says that God put us here for Him. To honour Him. Jesus said that the most important thing you can do with your life is to love God with everything you are, to love others and yourself. So if we win every game and we miss that, we've done nothing. Football then means nothing. So I'm here to present you a new team philosophy. I think...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Alex Kendrick - Grant Taylor
    [Tag:football, god, love]
  • “- David Childers: Coach, the farthest I've ever kicked is a 39-yarder. There is no way I can kick a 51-yard field goal.
    - Grant Taylor: I believe you can. Your job is to do the best you can, and leave the rest up to God. I need you on that field.”

    Bailey Cave - David Childers
    Alex Kendrick - Grant Taylor
    [Tag:football, god, motivation]
  • “- Brock Kelley: You don't want us to win games?
    - Grant Taylor: No. Not if that's our main goal. Winning football games is too small a thing to live for. And I love football as much as anybody. But even championship trophies will collect dust and one day be forgotten.”

    Jason McLeod - Brock Kelley
    Alex Kendrick - Grant Taylor
    [Tag:football, goals, winning]
  • “- Randy 'Pink' Floyd: Don, have you ever thought about why we play football? How many times have you gotten laid strictly because you're a football player?
    - Don Dawson: I don't know. A few, I guess.
    - Randy 'Pink' Floyd: A few? Don, all I'm saying is, I bet we could do just as well if we were in a band or something.”

    Jason London - Randy 'Pink' Floyd
    Sasha Jenson - Don Dawson
    [Tag:football, sex]
  • “- Armand Goldman: Al, you old son of a bitch! How ya doin'? How do you feel about that call today? I mean the Dolphins! Fourth-and-three play on their 30 yard line with only 34 seconds to go!
    - Albert Goldman: How do you think I feel? Betrayed, bewildered... wrong response?”

    Robin Williams - Armand Goldman
    Nathan Lane - Albert Goldman
    [Tag:answers, feeling, football]
  • “- J.T. Hawkins Jr.: You act like you gonna miss before you even kick the ball. See, we're gonna have to change your whole kicking philosophy. Now see, you kick it wide left, or wide right, but that ain't gonna get you home. The ball has got to go through the middle.
    - David Childers: I know, coach.”

    Chris Willis - J.T. Hawkins Jr.
    Bailey Cave - David Childers
    [Tag:advice, failure, football]
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