Football Quotes

I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

I think it would be great for football in Britain if Pep Guardiola wins leagues and dominates for a while with the way he likes to play and the players he'll bring in.

There's a certain amount of one-way shirt swapping going on.

Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.

Suarez will improve and he will get better.

I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.

But I just want to be known for my football.

I could tell you that in my entire coaching career I have never talked to any player, staff member about football air pressure. That is not a subject that I have ever brought up.

Those three words, Monday Night Football, resonate like no other.

I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.

The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

What is your position at the company? Right back.

We never use the condition of the footballs as an excuse. We play with whatever or kick with whatever we have to use and that's the way it is.

Having failed as an NFL commentator, Limbaugh understands the power of football.

This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players.

I spent four indifferent years at Goodison, but they were great years.

I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.

It's probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you're driving too slow. It's not the most pleasant thing.

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold.

I'm passionate about the game of football.

It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.

I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.

No star playing, just football.

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Here's a twenty, bury two.

I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad.

I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.

Maybe Louis does have a golden willy.

That's twice he (Terry Phelan) has got between himself and the goal.

Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.

Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.

They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.

You might as well talk to my baby daughter. You'll get more sense out of her

I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.

As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.

I'm a light eater. As soon as it's light, I start to eat.

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called "the offside rule". Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes.

The substitutes are all on the bench, and that's where they'll start the match.

Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil.

Celtic have scored in the 50th consecutive game in which they've managed to score

I think the best place to work in football is England.

I wouldn't trust Newcastle's back five to protect my garden gnomes from squirrels.

I won't say we have to win. I won't put that pressure. But we can't lose.

The crowd think that Todd handled the ball...they must have seen something that nobody else did.

As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.