Football Quotes

My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.

Football hooligans? Well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.

I started out in a kid’s backyard playing touch football and I never abandoned the principle when I got to the pros: if they can’t touch you, they can’t tackle you.

The rock has strange powers. When you rub it, and run down the hill, the adrenaline flows. It's the most emotional experience I've ever had.

Great news for Pres Obama. He watched football all weekend and tomorrow he will receive the Heisman trophy. Next week he's going to watch NASCAR. Move over, Jimmie Johnson!

There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

Tony Fernandes is in that goldfish bowl and he's swimming against the tide.

Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.

If you can get through the first round you have a good chance of getting into the next one.

Let's be honest. We're not Manchester United or Arsenal, are we?

The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.

Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set.

The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.

Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.

I walked around for a while angry, in a bad mood. ... 'Woe is me.' I've gotten over that. It doesn't do any good.

You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.

Ireland need fresh impotence.

A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

In football you never know, but generally speaking, I feel more than comfortable here [in Borussia Dortmund]. There' s no place on earth I'd rather be.

You have to believe in yourself. Belief is one of the biggest things in football. If you believe you can win the Premier League then of course it can happen.

I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?

I hate talking about football. I just do it, you know?

The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.

I didn't do anything during the game. I only had one shot on goal and I did not create any chances. I was horrible. Maybe I should have left the pitch earlier.

My wife doesn't like Football but she watches it just for Messi.

When I throw the perfect ball, it's impossible to defend.

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

We will go back to playing like Manchester United.

You can run on a football field but you can't hide out there.

It looks tough for Palace when you see some of the results they've got coming up.

Do you remember when we played in Spain in the Anglo-Italian Cup?

I don't support hate speech. I don't want to support a racist football team or bands that are offensive.

Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too.

To be second with one game to go - you can't ask for more.

He has many qualities as a prince, but he is not a surgeon.

Their high school football is some of the best in the country.

He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.

I am not better than anyone else just because I play football.

The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.

Football is a contact sport and there's a lot that goes into it. But I have committed myself for a long time to doing it, and because I love doing it so much I want to make that commitment.

They were unwillingly to give 100 percent if they didn't personally think it was important. What you don't understand is the champions know it's all important.

At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.

I've always tried to coach people the way I would like to be coached; positively and encouragingly rather than with criticism and fear ... I've tried to be as fair as possible.

I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone.

It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.

I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!