Football Quotes

I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

If you play football, theres going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

Luckily they had a stupid on their side too.

What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.

The thing about special teams - and I think football in general - is sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

Does anyone actually think that Beckham knows he's in America? I think he just follows a football and all he notices is that it occasionally gets warmer.

God blessed me to play football.

All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.

God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.

When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.

After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that.

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.

In high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!

If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it.

It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.

Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.

I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.

You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football.

I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport.

Me Grandad is 74 and he's football bananas, so me nan gets loads of grief.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football.

A piece of football history. A unique coach [Sir Alex Ferguson], among the greatest of all-time.

Chris Waddle is off the pitch at the moment - exactly the position he is at his most menacing.

Goals dictate how matches go.

I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.

I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.

He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.

If you cut Jamie Carragher open, he'll bleed red.

I don't judge my self-worth as a football player. Football is something I love. It's a fun career deal, but it's not what I want to do with my life, because I see football as a game.

My workout was playing other sports and I always played tennis, football, basketball, threw a baseball - I was always doing something to keep me active. That's how I kept my body going.

He is the man who has been brought on to replace Pavel Nedved. The irreplaceable Pavel Nedved.

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

Arsenal are streets ahead of everyone in this league and Manchester United are up there with them.

There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch.

I don't know about voodoo, but I believe in destiny.

I love to see my records broken, I really do, you get a chance to relive your life, the whole experience.

Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.

What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.

I could throw a pass to a spot as well as anyone who ever lived - But that's a God-given talent. I could never stand back and flick the ball 60 yards downfield with my wrists like Dan Marino does.

The ball has broken 50-50 for Keegan