Football Quotes

Football Quote of the day

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.

I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person.

It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain.

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

I learned all about life with a ball at my feet

The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.

Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.

Whatever success I've had it is because I've tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach's duty is to avoid complicating matters.

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.

It's more than personal. I can't screw it up. I have to do.

Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable".

A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.

Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it.

I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here.

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

If you dont live, eat, breathe, football, then youre not a true football player. You just wear the jersey.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

Mike, did you ever see the movie 'Cast Away?' In that movie, Tom Hanks' only friend was a ball named Wilson. In this game, Russell Wilson's only friend is a football.

I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best

Thats the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for.

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.

Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks to do - just jam it up the middle.

I don't need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet and I'll show you what I can do.

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations.

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

I was reminded of another very special word when I was driving into Ann Arbor this morning, and that word is homecoming. Our family's had three homecomings to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in my lifetime.

It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one.

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

I hope people see us not just as a football player, but also as human beings, we are not machines!