Football Quotes

maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.

I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.

What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.

We're not going to apologize for acting like a good football team.

Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.

If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.

Who will win the League? It's a toss of a coin between three of them.

No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.

On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out.

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

I've been consistent in patches this season.

Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support in my football and in everything. They've been very close to me and we have a great relationship.

Football was never my life. The guys [and] the relationships were my life. I have an ability to relate to damn near everybody.

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

Footballers are no different from human beings.

Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."

I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

That's often the best place to beat a goalkeeper, isn't it, between the legs?

Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true

Barnsley have started off the way they mean to begin.

Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.

The one I can't imagine anyone taking seriously, but was one of my favorites, was the mesh football jersey top, paired with a really short pair of athletic shorts.

Jean Tigana has spent the entire first half inside Liam Brady's shorts.

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.

I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me a martyr.

Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.

I don't dream football. I dream the American Dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

Football is business and business is business.

I love football and beer and have a normal girlfriend.

You're on your own out there with ten mates.

Did you hear charming Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism? Do me a favour, love.