Football Quotes

I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.

Did you used to play for Barcelona? Because that's not Barcelona football.

That's where the challenge has been. Balancing football and life. Trying not to replay every play in my head while I'm with my family. Sometimes, I've done it well. Other times, I haven't.

There's more to me than football. It's just part of my life.

I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.

In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.

I did not threaten anybody in any moment and even less with a brick.

Alex McLeish will have had kittens - literally!

My mom is a big sports fans. Basketball, football, baseball, whatever. She calls into sports radio shows and gets into shouting matches, that's how intense she is about it.

You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?

Football is an art form in itself. All sports are.

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

What is especially irritating about the whole abortion debate is the way the subject has been used as a political football by those on both the right and the left of the political aisle.

The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence.

Football players win football games.

I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.

Anelka was travelling so fast that he couldn't keep his own feet

Quite literally, you would not have put your shirt on him two weeks ago.

The game [football] has moved on a lot but still, ask most players and they will tell you that pre-season isn't their favourite time of the year.

I love to watch football.I actually really love to watch almost any competition with a score at the end.

I don't take a day off. I don't slack. All I know is hard-nose football. There ain't no breaks or vacations for me.

Everyone in football knows what John Terry's like off the field

I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.

It's not a problem. In four or five days I will be beautiful once again.

My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.

I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.

I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.

On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant.

He's as quick as a hiccup.

I don't have the proudest moment in football.

We're as average as everyday's wash.

In the NFL, every practice could make or break you. If you dropped one ball, you'd worry about getting cut.

I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.

A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.

Al Toon, who had his football career cut short because of multiple concussions, hopes his son follows in his footsteps.

I dream a lot about football and a lot of them have come true for me.

At the end of the day, I'm a footballer who has played at some of the biggest football clubs in the world and played with some of the best players in the world.

We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

The game is in a neutral country for both teams.

No matter who our opponents are, or who we are playing against, we want to win the game.

Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?

There is always scope for football to be more charitable but a lot happens already. Personally I have always been passionate about charity.

Forest have now lost six matches without winning.