Football Quotes

Teddy has lost that yard of pace he never had.

We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.

And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.

Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.

We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.

So often the pendulum contines to swing with the side that has just pulled themselves out of the hole.

Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.

That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice.

Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different.

As you understand the game of football, you understand that it is about wins and losses.

Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

I do go to football sometimes but I don't know the offside rule or free-kicks - or side kicks - or whatever they're called.

To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization.

Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.

When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.

I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.

Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.

But I don't know how I really felt about Johnny Manziel, but I feel like now everyone hates him. He's quickly becoming my favorite player in college football.

A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee--not playing soccer, not playing football--but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class.

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.

Motivation is not something I struggle with. I love playing football, I love being in training.

The great ones don't come cheap.

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

Best football player I played against? I think Messi. He killed us.

Every football player knows when his time is up.

No pro football player should die of heatstroke, any more than cholera, in this day and age if the most basic attention is paid and precautions are taken.

He was like a second father to me (of George Halas)

Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

I don't judge my success in life as a football player.

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.

He said something was unique: I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do, and see if the officials take air out of it.

I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.

I wouldn't watch football if it wasn't for Lord Bendtner

I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.

I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.

Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.

The new season will be all about scoring more goals than the opposition.