Football Quotes

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.

I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

Yes, he is not unused to playing in midfield, but at the same time he's not used to playing there either.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football

We were in an awkward position against Yugoslavia in that in order to win we needed to score more goals than they did.

You know, I want to be the uncommon one. I think it's pretty cool that I'm only 5'11, you know, and playing in the National Football League.

The problem is not what we are doing badly, it is because we are not doing things well.

I know the coaches definitely trust me and my ability to throw the football.

Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.

I love my football club. I love Essendon, I've always been apart of it and I want to be part of it going forward.

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

Lampard fired straight through the middle of a non-existent wall.

Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses.

The best thing about football is that the rules are so simple. Anyone can play anywhere.

You run the football for toughness. You run the ball to tell your opponent that you're as tough as they are. But you throw the ball to ring the bell.

England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!

I just want to be as successful as I can in football.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

He's been like a fresh of breath air.

The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.

The principle is competing against yourself.

Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world.

Some people come to Old Trafford and can't spell football, let alone understand it. They have a few drinks and a prawn sandwich but don't realise what's happening on the pitch

If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.

Terry Bradshaw couldn’t spell ‘cat’ if you spotted him the ‘C’ and the ‘A’.

My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city, he had no choice.

You can always become better.

Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school.

Brazil, always they buy from the United States. The first who was sell to the United States was football.

All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

Let's win one for the Gipper.

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

Hopefully Andy Carroll has only tweeted his hamstring.

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.

The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour.

Once Celtic got their equaliser, they played a sort of anti-football.

Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

I didn't say them things that I said.

For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.