Football Quotes

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

After all, is football a game or a religion?

The Steelers drafted guys who were bigger, stronger and faster than me, but they never found one who could take my job away from me.

The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.

Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I am very aggressive and very physical. On the field, I guess I am just plain mean.

When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.

Power isn’t just about going forward. It’s about not letting anything hold you back.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.

I said all along that God is in control.

I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill.

We can't replace Gary Speed - where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

Manchester United breathe football. When I have to make hard decisions, I always listen to little boy inside me and what he wants. That little boy was screaming for United.

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

My foot, for a football player, is very beautiful!

My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football.

Where else would you rather be than right here, right now?

You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.

You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

I'm married to football, baseball is my girlfriend.

When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart.

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

Right now, I am a football player and I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best.

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a ­manager would be my first choice.

I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.

You're kind of numb after 50 shots to the head.

Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.

He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.

As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.

Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him

Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.