Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Red Grange

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Red Grange.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Red Grange

Harold Edward "Red" Grange, nicknamed "the Galloping Ghost" and "the Wheaton Iceman", was an American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and the short-lived New York Yankees. His signing with the Bears helped legitimize the National Football League (NFL).

Every football player knows when his time is up.
A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.
I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.
No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it? — © Red Grange
No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?
The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.
No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it.
I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.
The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.
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