George Will Football Quotes & Sayings

It flew towards the roof of the net like a Wurlitzer — George Hamilton

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners. — George Orwell

Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside ... a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver. — George Allen

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League. — George Vecsey

In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home. — George Carlin

I know that I want to do my one-man show eventually, and that would talk about my life and about how football inspires me. I would love to do Shakespeare again, but in London this time. I'm pretty much open to receive the right opportunities with the right people. — Eddie George

Here's Henry, trying to burst the bubble still further, if indeed it needs more bursting — George Hamilton

Dialogue in the works of autobiography is quite naturally viewed with some suspicion. How on earth can the writer remember verbatim conversations that happened fifteen, twenty, fifty years ago? But 'Are you playing, Bob?' is one of only four sentences I have ever uttered to any Arsenal player (for the record the others are 'How's the leg, Bob?' to Bob Wilson, recovering from injury the following season; 'Can I have your autograph, please?' to Charlie George, Pat Rice, Alan Ball and Bertie Mee; and, well, 'How's the leg, Brian?' to Brian Marwood outside the Arsenal club shop when I was old enough to know better) and I can therefore vouch for its absolute authenticity. — Nick Hornby

Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater. — George Lucas

At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play. — George Halas

We live in a society that only embraces success and that is who we are. It takes a great deal of inner strength to deal with the time commitment of coaching when very little seems to be accomplished. — George M. Gilbert

Referee Norlinger is outstanding in the sense that he stands out. — George Hamilton

When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one. — George Hamilton

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. — George Santayana

Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly. — George Will

Once an athlete feels his coach does not believe in him resentment develops and everyone loses at that point. — George M. Gilbert

Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. — George F. Will

Coaches must take calculated risks all the time. One thing is to talk about what you plan to do and another is to prepare and then execute a plan toward change. — George M. Gilbert

Winners accept responsibility because acceptance of responsibility nullifies excuses. — George M. Gilbert

The coaches will offer a direction, a plan, routine, discipline and the players must develop the desire to work together accepting their roles as they learn in preparation for the season. — George M. Gilbert

The great cancer facing all of us during this 'new millennium' is entitlement. — George M. Gilbert

I don't sleep much. Five to six, I'd say. You could argue that people, as they get older, sleep less - probably because they're afraid of dying at some point. I know my parents don't sleep much. I know that I used to be able to sleep until noon when I was younger. I couldn't fathom staying in bed until ten now. I wouldn't know what to do unless there's a football game on. — George Clooney

A team goal requires a team effort. — George M. Gilbert

Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness. — George Will

Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me. — George Boateng

International football is the continuation of war by other means. — George Orwell

I will not promise boys positions, I will not promise any of you football success, I will demand discipline, character, respect, and work ethic throughout the program. If I succeed in getting people to believe then success will follow. — George M. Gilbert

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact. — George Plimpton

The eiderdown of this 2-0 lead is a lot more comfortable than the blanket of 1-0. — George Hamilton

He's pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off — George Hamilton

Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals — George Hamilton

Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows may cause the players degenerative brain disease. — George Will

There's no telling what the score will be if this one goes in — George Hamilton

The third year at a school for any head coach is the most important year for the program they are attempting to develop. — George M. Gilbert

Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude. — George Allen

As of today, you do anything that I feel is disrespecting our program in any way, you are gone! From this day forward, everyone will be at practice in uniform as we will either build this program into something or we will destroy it! — George M. Gilbert

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting. — George Orwell

The football playoffs feature one-off affairs, without bad feelings building from weekend to weekend. In addition, football uses platoons for offense and defense and kicking, so only the interior linemen have a chance to really get up close and personal with one another. — George Vecsey

If you are not a part of the solution then you must be part of the problem. I am done with problems here! — George M. Gilbert

we first need to get boys out for football and then the plan will gradually come into play — George M. Gilbert

This is truly a rags to riches story which doesn't happen often, but it does happen. Hope is offered to those who face similar challenges that in this great Country dreams can be realized when work ethic and passion lead the way. — George M. Gilbert

Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen. There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me. — George Best

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies. — George Smoot

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying. — George Carlin

I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield. Even if one didn't know from concrete examples (the 1936 Olympic Games, for instance) that international sporting contests lead to orgies of hatred, one could deduce it from general principles ... There cannot be much doubt that the whole thing is bound up with the rise of nationalism - that is, with the lunatic modern habit of identifying oneself with large power units and seeing everything in terms of competitive prestige. — George Orwell

College football was a religion in Alabama, and Saturdays in the fall were holy days. — Lexi George

[Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. — George Orwell

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off? — George Saunders

America is a country built on unity, hard work and diligent pursuit of personal goals leading to collective success. — George M. Gilbert

You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him! — Anna Kendrick

He caught that with the outside of his instep. — George Hamilton

So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern ... Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult. — George Orwell

Once people couldn't trust the college game, some checked out the pro game, but that was in big trouble, too. We had no clock and a lot of faults. People looked at the slow pace and at big guys like George Mikan and said pro basketball was just for overgrown pituitary cases. Baseball and football were numbers one and two and pro basketball wasn't even in the same universe. — Dolph Schayes

Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. We love football at ABC. It's been a love affair for 36 years. It will go down in the history of sports television, being created on ABC and with this magnificent run. But at this point, given the success we're having with our entertainment product and the financials, we deemed that this was the proper move for us. We're not looking back . — George Bodenheimer