Football Quotes

What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.

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

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

Whoa! I better lay off the peyote!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass.

If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.

They (Leeds United) used to be a bit like Arsenal, winning by one goal to nil or even less.

Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.

If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.

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

I wanted to show them I will never give up. We have to keep together. I still believe in myself. I will never change. The players need to release the rubbish from their brains.

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

Because of the booking I will miss the Holland game - if selected.

Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'

I'm a firm believer that all sports will eventually be global. Someday, we may have a quarterback from China named Yao Fling.

Roberto Mancini's got that Italian style, the old joie de vivre.

Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded.

As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime.

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

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.

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

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

He just got his body between himself and the goal.

I lust love to play football.

Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot.

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

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.

I really do love football.

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.

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

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

That was the perfect penalty - apart from he missed it.