Football Quotes

I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It's not a job, it's a passion. When you become good at it, it's a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

I didn't say them things that I said.

The only bowl Rutgers is going to is the one I just got off of.

Football is a game of tomorrows.

Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team.

There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.

He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.

You have to sometimes shoot from the second row, that's all football. So you have to be a bit more flexible.

I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball, I continued my football workouts in the offseason.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.

I do want to play the short ball and I do want to play the long ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about.

I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.

You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.'

The Dutch look like a huge jar of marmalade.

The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester.

Sandro's holding is face. You can tell from that it's a knee injury.

Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park.

When it's football season, I'm all football.

Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.

I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable.

I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction.

That's the kind he usually knocks in in his sleep - with his eyes closed.

Messi is the best player in the history of football, and that’s why I prefer Barça over Real Madrid.

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

We might have the worst bunch of guys together we've ever seen as a football team. I don't know what anybody else has, but I'd trade mine with anybody, sight unseen.

I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. (on Euro 2004)

A modern school where football is taught.

The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.

One or two of their players aren't getting any younger

And now with Argentina out, they will be on the plane home with France

Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

I believe that if you die trying to be your best, the world is still a better place.

When Rioch came to Millwall we were depressed and miserable. He's done a brilliant job of turning it all around. Now we're miserable and depressed.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.