Football Team Quotes - Page 9

• There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Team, Player

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• I remember my dad asking me one time, and it's something that has always stuck with me: 'Why not you, Russ?' You know, why not me? Why not me in the Super Bowl? So in speaking to our football team earlier in the year, I said, 'Why not us? Why can't we be there?'

  Russell Wilson

  Football, Dad, Team

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• You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Team, Believe

  Interview with Charlie Rose, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. March 10, 2013.

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• When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard
  of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh.

  Sarah Dessen

  Football, Team, Lunch

  "Sarah Dessen and Regina Hayes". Interview with Regina Hayes, www.slate.com. June 7, 2013.

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• 18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".

  Joe Satriani

  Football, Team, Giving

  "Joe Satriani: The Satch Tapes". Music, Video, 1993.

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• The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior year. It was super-competitive. We lost in the semifinals my senior year, and it still haunts me.

  Theo Rossi

  Senior, Football, Team

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