Football Player Quotes

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable.

I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink that night.

Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

I want to be remembered as a championship football player.

Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.

There is only one, believe it or not. I did get knocked up by a baller. A big football player.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.

Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.

Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.

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

Every football player knows when his time is up.

I don't judge my success in life as a football player.

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.

Best football player I played against? I think Messi. He killed us.

Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time.

Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.'

Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.

My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.

I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.

It's rare to have a best friend who is also your brother and also an NFL football player, and he knows exactly what I'm talking about.

Lampard's not the first player to run to the crowd with lips over his mouth.

You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.

The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to EuroDisney.

Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow.

I was a football player and competitor in life.

The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.

I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.

I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.

Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.

I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.

Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

Before you go anywhere, Mr. Football Player,” Nita said, “I want to know exactly what your intentions are toward my Blue.

I'm a football player by trade. That's what I do, ... So I did everything I could to make myself a football player again.

I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.

I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football player on it. It's just a fantastic little book.

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

My father was an all-American football player.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.