Football Quotes

I have so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people in tennis or football.

You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.

China needs a table-tennis-like solidity in football.

First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general.

China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the game is concerned. Football in the future will get faster and faster.

Football is my life. I guess I can't live without it.

I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.

Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn't score. So what does that say?

To me the footballs are approved by the league and game officials pregame and we play with what's out there. That's the only way that I have ever thought about that.

Tom's [Brady] personal preferences on his footballs are something he can take about in much better detail and information than I could possibly provide.

On my football field, I know what bliss is. My team cuddles more than the missus. We won't inject drugs, just oodles of hugs. I warm up my team with some kisses.

I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done.

We had a word with him about diving and since then the lad's come on leaps and bounds.

The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain.

Football is Freedom, a whole universe.

I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.

Football these days isn't going forwards. It's going sidewards

There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

I fought as a kid. But football is what kept me out of trouble. You could always fight, whether you're in trouble or not

The stuff I went through at Auburn? It didn't matter anymore. I just wanted to play football.

I didn't play in the NFL, and I didn't play defensive line. But football, at the fundamental level, is football. It's about motivating people and getting the best out of them.

In football there is very rarely a "typical day" - there are always issues and challenges that arise from nowhere, and as manager you have to be ready to deal with them.

I think my history as a coach shows I like players who are gifted technically and have courage when it comes to being in possession of a football. That is a key quality for me.

If one day I go to a game and I don't feel I can win, maybe I don't go.

I can categorically tell you that Mario Balotelli will not be at Liverpool.

When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.

If you look at the world-class performers at the top of the game, their numbers are just exceptional and that is the level he is at.

I will leave no stone unturned in my quest - and that quest will be relentless - to try and get Liverpool back on the map again as a successful football club.

I think I've proven I can build a team that plays a way of football that excites and challenges at the top end of the table.

Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.

In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.

I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

I'm in great shape, back-in-my-football-days shape. I've worked hard to get to this point.

People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.

I like to think of myself as a regular guy, except I play football for a living. I try not to be an arrogant turd out there.

My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.

52,000 here tonight, but it sounds like 50,000.

I actually like football a great deal.

I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.

Rebounding helps a lot with your ball skills, because you're able to go get the ball at a high point, which is what they want you to do in football.

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

Football has always been a stepping stone for my education.

Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.

Unless the chairman decides to sack me, I won't be quitting.

A holocaust of an afternoon.

I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.