Football Quotes

A lot of people have already labeled me the Savior.

No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds.

I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.

United have more experience but we have a much better team and play much better football.

It's an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that.

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

Woodcock would have scored but his shot was too perfect.

I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.

Beckenbauer has really gambled all his eggs.

The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players to balance things up and give the team some brains and common sense.

If someone states that Ajax played a negative game then maybe we are smarter than Manchester City.

Stokes gets a straight yellow for that challenge.

These so-called big stars are people we are supposed to be looking up to. Well they are weak and soft. Priorities have changed in football and they are being dictated to by their wives.

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way.

We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer.

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let's say admired, as a football star.

It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.

Hell, I live like I did when I was 35. I don't believe in retirement groups because I don't believe in retirement. How long can I keep coaching? How about forever? I'll never walk off the field.

When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.

Growing up in Canada, I didn't watch football much.

People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!

Football is American; why are the Romans numering our bowls?!

No disrespect to the country. It's a wonderful place, the where's he gone again?

Nine months of misery.

I don't want to give Robbie Blake any praise, but he was superb.

I was disappointed to leave Spurs, but quite pleased that I did.

The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know the result look away now as we show you Tony Adams lifting the cup for Arsenal.

Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all.

It was one to three football fields in length. It was massive, about 300 feet above the ground. It had three lights on the points of its triangle and a large red light beneath.

Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.

A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air force over there.

I never really knew how to throw a football before.

Fans are fans. I hated and loved them, hated and loved them, hated and loved them.

The beauty of Cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath.

If you want change, you've got to stick with it.

If you can't stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen

The game must have been past my bed-time.

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

I'm blessed to have a little bit of success in football.

Hey, Warren, the Raiders signed you to a seven-year deal. I guess Bill Callahan was right - they are the dumbest team in America.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

Right after the game, say as little as possible.

I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.