Football Quotes

He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.

In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.

If you have everything prepared, the rest will take care of itself.

It's named the Lombardi Trophy for a reason, because we play and live in Titledown. We've got the best fans, and I can't wait to go home and see those fans and bring home the Lombardi Trophy.

You've got to play with that killer instinct, man. You've got to hate that guy across from you. Then after the game is over, tell him what a nice guy he is. Shake his hand. Especially if you win.

I hate perception. There's far too much of it in football

Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football.

Once you've got a bull terrier, you never want another dog. I've got six bull terriers, a rottweiler and a bulldog.

I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best

The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.

It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.

I just want to wear my heart on my sleeve.

If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

Be a tough-minded optimist.

The ageless Dennis Wise, now in his thirties.

In football you sometimes have beauty and cruelty together.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

I have always had this necessity to win. When I played with my friends on the street, football or running, I always wanted to be the best.

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

There are kids out there who'd chop their legs off to play football for Brighton

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.

Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements.

If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.

It was like he was being controlled by a 10 year-old on a PlayStation.

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

Be patient with the negative people of the world. Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify your own thinking and firming your own resolve. Then, headslap them out of your way.

Nobody can make you a loser.

Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it.

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.

I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.

Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops...

I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio.

Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.