Football Quotes

Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years.

Football gives the African people hope, a true motivation for their life.

In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

If other people think I’m okay looking, that’s great, but I don’t see it myself. When I look in the mirror all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars.

Ally McCoist will always get you a goal, whether he's playing or on the bench.

My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're 18 I'll be dead.

Ken Bates is a football cretin.

Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.

I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.

Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

There's only one place you want to be and that's Wembley, Old Trafford or Anfield.

No regrets, none at all. My only regret is that we went out on penalties. That's my only regret but no, no regrets.

I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.

I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.

I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all.

According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.

I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

Carra doesn't like me to fist him before the games, so I give him a high-five instead.

When England go to Turkey there could be fatalities - or even worse, injuries.

Reading just had a great five-man move that involved everyone.

When Paul Brown talked contract, the championship game was part of it. We took the championship game for granted.

All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war)

I feel like it's God's plan for me to play football and make a difference in people's lives.

Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until the day before his anniversary to buy his wife a gift.

I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt. (on retiring from international football)

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.

You can win the Champions League in the worst season.

Bayern's midfielder, Owen Hargreaves, who scampered around the pitch like an office boy on amphetamines for the last 25 minutes or so.

Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns.

Everything is s*** because we lost.

Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.

I am not taking legal action against any team-mate.

My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard.

I can never hope to find words to express my feelings at becoming a member of the Celtic Football Club.

Many people hold me ultimately responsible toward the actions and reputation of the global football community. I cannot monitor everyone all of the time.

All religions, they play football - even nowadays all girls and women have the right to play football in cultures like the Arabic countries in the Muslim they play football.

Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.

He's worse than Dracula because at least Dracula comes out of his coffin now and then. He seems to stay on his line and that's it.

You ever think Charlie, that our group is the same as any other group like a football team? And the only real difference between us is what we wear and why we wear it?

The Cincinnati Bengals look like the most complete team in the National Football League. I can’t wait to see how they match up against New England.

There's no way running on a beach or at some high school playground that you're going to get in football shape like you do when you practice.

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.

In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.

I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

I've always been connected to football, but for some reason, there's never been a connection.

I felt a lump in my throat as the ball went in.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.