Football Quotes

Football is business and business is business.

I love football and beer and have a normal girlfriend.

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

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 love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

I have 2 weapons; my arms, my legs and my brain.

I left hating the game of football…I never ever wanted to play football after that and I kind of rode off into the sunset.

The tall team takes the low road into the lead

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

The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

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

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.

The punt returner got smacked like Nancy Kerrigan's knee on souvenir pipe night.

A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my life, so maybe I'll come back to it in some sort of way.

Winning means everything...You show me a good loser and I'll show a loser.

From that moment the pendulum went into reverse

There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.

If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.

I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.

When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.

There was no time to think, I just hit it

Football's football, if that weren't the case it wouldn't be the game that it is

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

It's a lot harder to play football when you haven't got the ball.

If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey.

The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.

Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.

A very good side playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to.

I was the kid that wanted to be anonymous in that I'd put a football helmet on and be a member of a team and go out there and maim people. It was a very hard process. It truly was.

Shut your noise, you old c***!

The Merseyside derby games are unique in the city.

The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal.

In Montana, they renamed a town after an all-time great, Joe Montana. Well, a town in Massachusetts changed their name to honor my guy Terry Bradshaw--Marblehead.

A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands

I think some people just don't know that much about comedy. It would be like a person who didn't know anything about football thinking all offensive linemen are the same.

He's a leader and is offering lessons in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd

It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.

When speaking to young people, I tell them that it is important to make sure that your mind is right, so you will have something to fall back on.

...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.

Football is important, but it is never more important than life.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

Life doesn't stop with football.