Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that – Bill Shankly.

Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell – Bo Jackson.

When it comes to football, God is prejudiced – toward big, fast kids – Chuck Mills.

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four – Dan Birdwell.

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

Most football players are temperamental. That’s 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental – Doug Plank.

Football is not a contact sport. It’s a collision sport. Dancing is a good example of a contact sport – Duffy Daugherty.

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture – Elbert Hubbard.

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it – Heywood Hale Brown.

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.

What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion? – Jim Murray.

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

Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become – Mary McGrory.

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party – Sue Lawley.

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable – Tom Landry.