Football Quotes

Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word.

It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked

I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.

I just liked to play football, no matter what the position.

We haven't scored which means you haven't got a chance of winning.

Football is all I know.

I don’t have to play football for money.

It was the proudest moment of my career to lead my team out at the home of English football. I never, ever dreamt that would happen!

I was better at baseball, but I really loved football.

It’s important for people to know that I’m still focused on football... I’m handling my business to get ready for the next season.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

Analysts say Obama's new immigration plan will focus on deporting violent criminals. So, this could impact your fantasy football team.

The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love of cross-dressing. Call me unenlightened, but I started to laugh.

The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to EuroDisney.

Supporters have every divine right to slag your players off when they're not winning games.

That receiver was as wide open as Annabel Chong.

Concussion? How the hell can they tell? They're *football* players, for chrissakes!

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.

Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.

Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow.

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

Football today would certainly not be the same if it had not existed.

Emmitt Smith is in a position, in my opinion, where he should be the highest-paid running back in football. He's a guy who has gone out and led the league in rushing and been productive.

Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, "When are you gonna start running hard?" The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth - Man, I love to run!

If someone gave the Russians a football, they'd win the Super Bowl in two years.

I don't want to be either partial or impartial.

There's never a lot of Brazillian football played in these games.

I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

I was never someone who had a lot of confidence in anything that had to do with using your brain. I really was lost in my life after football.

Fantasy football is actually an amazing American pastime, because it takes the ultimate team sport, NFL and football, and turns it into the quest for individual achievement.

It will be a shame if either side lose, and that applies to both sides.

I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

Owen scores and breaks Lineker's competitive scoring record. Although this being a friendly it doesn't actual count, so he hasn't quite done it yet.

We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.

Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.

I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.

It seems that they're playing with one leg tied together.

Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.

Being named among the best is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.

The Barcelona youth program is one of the best in the world. As a kid, they teach you not to play to win, but to grow in ability as a player.

It is not coincidence that at Barcelona we have low-key lifestyles and we have been successful. We know we are football players and not movie stars.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other.