Football Quotes

Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.

Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.

If you're old enough, you're good enough

I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

That was never a penalty in a million planets.

How I wish the mass media had christened me Joe instead of Joey. I hate Joey, not going to lie. Nobody I respect calls me it.

He reminds me of a completely different version of Robbie Earle.

Is he ever going to learn?

There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.

Lets go eat a God damn snack

Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.

You are one of a kind, one in a billion, an incredible unique individual. The problem is, so is everybody else.

Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

Tell Ray to put the eyeliner, the lipstick and the high heels away. I'm not saying he's a cross-dresser, that's just what I heard.

The only team that believed in me was the Saints, and I feel like I owe them a great debt of gratitude. I want to give them what they saw in me-a guy who could lead this team to a championship.

What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.

They've picked their heads up off the ground, and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders.

RIP Sir Alfredo Di Stefano. I will never forget each of the shared moments with such a football legend.

All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

I've tried to do everything possible to prepare myself and prepare our football team to be great.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

I ain't never been nothin but a winner.

I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs.

Chris Hughton has been sacked by Norwich. Now? With 5 games to go? Utterly bonkers!

Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill.

I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record - everything stinks - and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.

It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?

For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.

It's to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against. (on the 'This Anfield' plaque)

Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.

I don't know why we aren't scoring as we're keeping clean sheets.

The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team.

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.

So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz?

Winning is the science of being totally prepared

People don't know about football. They think they know about it but they don't know much.

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

I couldn't give a s***! He just can't take it. Good old Jose, moaning again.

Attitude is the whole thing in football. Every team has the talent and the coaching. Motivation makes the difference. The teams that win stay healthy and interested.

Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

Klaus Toppmoller: hair like David Gower and dress sense like Austin Powers.

Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz - everything pulls together into one intense moment that is beautiful.