Pro Football Quotes

Pro Football Quote of the day

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.

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.

Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.

I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium.

It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.

The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football -- too many -- but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here.

No pro football player should die of heatstroke, any more than cholera, in this day and age if the most basic attention is paid and precautions are taken.

Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now.

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

When I was a kid, I'd watch pro football on TV and I'd see someone make a play and I'd say, 'I wish that could be me.' But then I'd have to wonder, 'Could I make that big play?'

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.