Football Quotes

Football comes naturally to me, but basketball is a challenge, that's why I like it so much.

The ageless Teddy Sheringham, 37 now.

America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.

In football, you're taught to react by being aggressive, taught to react with violence. If you can't separate that on the field and off the field, you're going to be in a lot of trouble in your life.

The greatest thing for me football-wise is that it's a test of will.

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

We had the kind of team that didn't back down from anybody. If they wanted to intimidate us, we could intimidate as well as they could. Our team was too big and too good to intimidate.

She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.

I come from a football family which has really helped.

Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

Football is a sad game.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

Every football coach worries about every football game.

He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.

Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.

I want to go to a place where I can go to a football game, take off my shirt, paint my chest and major in beer.

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

Games were moved to New Year's Eve as part of a plan by college football executives where they want to create a tradition of watching football on New Year's Eve.

I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.

When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.

I was a football player and competitor in life.

I'm the football coach around here and don't you remember it.

If I wasn't playing football, I'd be a juvenile probation officer.

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.

I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.

My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football player on it. It's just a fantastic little book.

I was a college football fanatic, and I wanted to play, not sit on the sidelines. It's tough when you know you're just a project.

Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.

I think people tune in to watch a football game because they want to watch a football game. If they wanted to watch a stand-up comedy show on HBO, that's where they'd go

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

Just because one pedophile is a football coach, please don't turn against all pedophiles.

I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

Keeping fit is really important as playing football is all I've ever wanted to do.

I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.

A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

I'm an ardent American Football fan.