Quotes About Texas Football

“In Texas, two things are cherished above all else- football and gossip.”

— Cora Carmack

“There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.”

— Pete Hamill

“If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.”

— Ricky Williams

“I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.”

— Gabriel Luna

“You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.”

— Sarah Shahi

“Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.”

— John Steinbeck

“If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.”

— J. R. Martinez

“I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.”

— Norah O'Donnell

“I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.”

— Jay Hernandez

“I don't think people can watch University of Texas basketball or football games with me - really, anything Texas is playing - without wanting to punch me in the face. I'm as big a Longhorn fan as you'll find.”

— Jordan Spieth

“At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.”

— Adam Dunn

“As a global company, ATT is proud to have its name associated with this great university and some of the most exciting college football in the country. We appreciate our strong working relationship with Texas Tech, and we are grateful for the university's leadership to make the Jones ATT Stadium name a reality.”

— David George

“Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.”

— Brent Musburger

“Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.”

— Tom Landry

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

— Dan Jenkins