Football Quotes

There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game.

I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans

I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you're not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms.

Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is inferior. It's not.

Tate University - A large football stadium, with a college attached.

The ball has broken 50-50 for Keegan

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.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.

This club needs an impetus of energy - but I just feel tired to be honest. I'm worn out.

I'm not going to make it a target, but it's something to aim for.

I don't think about one trick or the other, they just happen.

In football two days is a long time and a week is a very long time.

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?

Our football program is bigger than any one person.

To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Goals dictate how matches go.

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

My favorite sport is football. I'm a die hard Steelers fan. Favorite players were Hines Ward and Greg Lloyd.

A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.

Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league.

Letting go of its good players, like Özil, the ones who know how to play football – that did surprise me.

There are some things Ronaldo can do with a football that make me touch my head and wonder how on earth he did it.

There's never been a greater game than football.

Football is a team game. So is life.

Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

McCarthy shakes his head in agreement with the referee.

Messi is the real deal when it comes to Number 10s. He represents a type of football that transcends borders.

Only two players made me cry when watching football, one was Diego Maradona and the other Ryan Giggs.

She looks uptown, but she ain't really. She's into football, she likes my chili.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.

There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.

Every team is beatable, you know.

I like to play football, read some books, study.

Some guys, football comes really easy to them; they can see what all 22 players are doing, can see what all 11 guys are doing on their side of the ball, how it all fits together. It's easy for them.

That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.

I always wanted to be a one-club man, I always wanted to play for Liverpool. If I had gone out of the team in my twenties or early thirties I would've left because I love playing football.

In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.