Football Quotes

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

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

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

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

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

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

Politics and football don't mix.

One of biggest rules in football is you have to avoid crosses.

I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else.

You guys line up alphabetically by height.

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal

Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.

Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.

I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

The positions I played, every play, I was making contact, not like that Deion Sanders. He couldn't tackle my wife. He's back there dancing out there instead of hitting.

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

We've been beaten before but never defeated. Tonight we were defeated.

To be the best you have to forget partying and concentrate all your energies on the football.

When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.

If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?

You can see the ball go past them, or the man, but you'll never see both man and ball go past at the same time. So if the ball goes past, the man won't, or if the man goes past they'll take the ball.

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

I'm a guy here to play football. I'm not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I'm not into all that.

Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it's something you're tremendously passionate about.

I just hope he doesn't frighten the players 'cos they're frigtened enough right now.

It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.

Don't date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.

Football kickers are like taxi cabs. You can always go out and hire another one.

I want to keep winning, the hell with the record.

It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.

My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head... I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.

They whipped us like a tied up goat.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Very few great goals actually go in.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.

What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.

This does not --ing slip now.