“Football is a game of wits, of skill, of speed and of strength. It is a game of brains as well as brawn.”— Amos Alonzo Stagg
“It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're playing for Rochdale and at 18 you're playing for Scotland.”— Gordon Strachan
“The game is about players. You can have the best coach in the world, but if you haven't got the players, you won't win anything.”— Sir Trevor Brooking
“Football is a game of controlled violence, and you have to be able to control yourself.”— Randy Cross
“Football is not a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.”— Duffy Daugherty
“When you're playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life and death. It's more important than that.”— Duffy Daugherty
“An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame-SMU football game and doesn't care who wins.”— Duffy Daugherty
“There are three things that can happen when you pass a football, and two of them are bad.”— Duffy Daugherty
“The single most important thing I can tell you about the game of football is being able to hang in there... it's a game of momentum. You have to be able to hang in there.”— Len Dawson