Football Quotes

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

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

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

Maybe Louis does have a golden willy.

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.

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

Here's a twenty, bury two.

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.

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

No star playing, just football.

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

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.

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

I'm passionate about the game of football.

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

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

I want to play for Arsenal. When you see football all around the world you see very few teams who play the way that we play. I just enjoy it. I feel it is my home now.

He hit that one like an arrow

I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.

He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.

Discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it. Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can.

Mancini is lucky. He has an owner [Sheikh Mansour] who speaks little and asks only: "What do you need?"

Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run

Whoa! I better lay off the peyote!

If I ever get the chance to do a football movie, that would be a dream come true.

If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks.

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.

Football is a game that fascinates people around the World like nothing else.

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

I'm going to Inter to see if they will let me play a bit of football.

I care about football, so what Im seeing regarding the image of FIFA, not only now but in the past years, I dont like it.

Remy Cabella, I think he deserves something else than Newcastle. I wouldn't go there. You must get bored s***less in Newcastle.

To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.

Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.

I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.

Football management is such a pressurized thing - horse racing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

Football is my life. There is no question about that.

The lads really ran their socks into the ground.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see.

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

Hawaii doesn't win many games in the United States.

I believe that I have a platform because God blessed me with the talent to play football. Having that talent, my job is to be responsible with it.