If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going. - Roland Joffe I have no problem putting my feet up and watching football but my mother-in-law is always doing stuff. - Seal

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys. - Catherine Bell I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey. - Steven Chu We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically. - Alan Thicke

I stopped looking around when I heard a soft "mew" and I looked toward Tate to see he was crouched. He straightened and turned to me. I froze and stared. Tatum Jackson, ex-pro football player, ex-cop, now bartender/bounty hunter, tall, beautiful and more man than I'd ever experienced in my life was standing on the edge of his kitchen holding a cat. And it wasn't just any cat and he wasn't just holding it. He was cradling it. - Kristen Ashley When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something. - Dick Butkus Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. - Frank Gifford Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass. - Ron Jaworski Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already bee...

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football. - Burt Bacharach I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing. - David Beckham I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends. - Dennis Bergkamp If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete. - Brian Bosworth There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it. - Dean Cain I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football. - John Cale Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football. - Eric Cantona I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was goin...

But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty. - Delia Smith Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person. - Ricky Williams

It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager. - Kenny Dalglish We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high. - Steven Gerrard We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now. - Linda Mccartney

It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager. - Kenny Dalglish We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high. - Steven Gerrard

Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer). - Albert Camus I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment. - Wally Schirra Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important. - Bill Shankly

It's football season; anything can happen. - Troy Brown I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away. - Kate Mara You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect. - Tony Dungy When it's football season, I'm all football. - Hayden Fry I have been keeping myself fit. I am going on holiday next week in the Mediterranean so that I can really unwind after the football season and have a rest. - David Ginola The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again. - Sally Quinn

So their cheerleaders are ugly, their football players are wimps, and they're our archrivals because why? - Jennifer Lynn Barnes We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run. - Ato Boldon The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them. - Ato Boldon I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used. - Ato Boldon Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players. - Brian Bosworth Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? - Jim Bouton As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience o...

When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match. - Gael Garcia Bernal It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular. - Gilbert K Chesterton If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory. - John Curtin Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose? - Lesley Garrett To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone w...

I have a 12:34 representational time dance. I do it at 3:33 every other Tuesday (twice a day). If you'd like to participate in my choreographed dance routine, bring a football helmet and a half empty can of tuna (keeps the stray cats away, because I perform in a gritty, grimy downtown alley). - Jarod Kintz Do you even listen to what I say? Would you be able to listen better if you were wearing a football helmet full of chili?. - Jarod Kintz If you want to see how fast I run, just give me a football helmet and notice how my helmet collects bug carcasses like a car bumper. - Jarod Kintz

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. - John Steinbeck In marching, in mobs, in football games, and in war, outlines become vague; real things become unreal and a fog creeps over the mind. Tension and excitement, weariness, movement--all merge in one great gray dream, so that when it is over, it is hard to remember how it was when you killed men or ordered them to be killed. Then other people who were not there tell you what it was like and you say vaguely, yes, I guess that's how it was. - John Steinbeck If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. - Erma Bombeck If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. - Paul Bryant And I could see this boy doing his homework and thinking about ...

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. - Dave Barry It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship with our clubs, and I think that we are secretly convinced that none of the other fans understands quite why we have been harder hit than anyone else - we are forced to mourn in public, surrounded by people whose hurt is expressed in forms different from our own. - Nick Hornby The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known. - Gary Lineker I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans. - Rachel Stevens

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. - Dave Barry We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan. - Alastair Campbell No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout. - Hugh Dancy So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan. - Lisa Guerrero It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship with our clubs, and I think that we are secretly convinced that none of the other fans understands quite why we have been harder hit than anyone else - we are forced to mourn in public, surrounded by people whose hurt is expressed in forms different from our own. - Nick Hornby The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. - Nick Hornby Yes, yes, I know all t...

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner. - Ice Cube My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches. - Amy Klobuchar

Rosenfeld runs the metropolitan staff, the Post's largest, like a football coach. He prods his players, letting them know that he has promised the front office results, pleading, yelling, cajoling, pacing, working his facial expressions for instant effects - anger, satisfaction, concern. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward - Carl Bernstein Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner. - Ice Cube For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone. - Tony Dungy I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train. - Hayden Fry To show the football coach I was ready to play tight end, I wore no pants and had a Q-tip dangling out of my ass. - Jarod Kintz This mu...

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond. - Jim Jarmusch I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans. - Greg Kinnear In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on. - Kevin Mckidd My father was an all-American football player. - Edwin Moses And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games,...