Football Quotes

Souness gave Fleck a second chance and he grabbed it with both feet.

I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.

For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

There's one sure way to stop us from scoring ... give us the ball near the goal line.

The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side

I don't like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate their program, their fans. I hate everything

I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

I think the next United manager is already at the club. It could be either Ryan Giggs or Ole Gunnar Solksjaer, who isn't at the club.

I'm happy with the Arena Football League right now. I'm happy in Denver.

In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale.

If they come back it's a night we'll remember for a long time. But that's a capital if.

I had to wait nine days for a letter that said a lot of very silly things.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.

Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.

Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.

When I get the ball, for some reason I see holes. I'm not really sure how.

England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.

When those nerf footballs get wet though then they actually do get heavy.

Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team.

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

I haven't retired from international football - I still believe I have a part to play in the future of England.

Being a dad is more important than football.

Do you know who I am? Why, have you forgotten?

Nine in the box... that's a football term.

Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.

That was in the past - we're in the future now.

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

I really do love football.

I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked.

When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it.

Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot.

I lust love to play football.

We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.

He just got his body between himself and the goal.

It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.

I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.

We don't have any problems, apart from the problems we have.

I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

The acoustics seem to get louder

West Germany's Briegel hasn't been able to get past anyone yet - that's his trademark.

I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet.

Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.

People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher.

I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.

...like a predator about to devour the target.

I was in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.