Football Quotes

Don't tell those coming in the final result of that fantastic match, but let's just have another look at Italy's winning goalo.

Both of the Villa scorers were born in Liverpool, as was the Villa manager, who was born in Birkenhead.

The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory.

And I love shooting football.

I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.

I'm too tired to speak in English.

Football will always be my foremost passion.

English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.

I was a young lad when I was growing up.

He is an interesting player - short back legs.

He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.

Pardew has got previous for this kind of thing - but that was a one-off.

The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.

I never was very big on praying for victory. For God to give a big win to the Denver Broncos, wouldn't He have to take it away from somebody else, say, the Green Bay Packers?

There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.

I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I'm going to need a good reason to switch.

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet.

First, you've got to get the job. "Yeah, I can do it," I would say. When I was a kid, I could do anything. Lucky nobody ever asked me if I could fly a jet plane.

A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.

Ouch! And Marino goes down quicker than his Boonesfarm-infused sister in the back of my '68 Cutlass on our first date after watching 'Love Story' at the drive-in.

I haven't seen anyone rely on the ground game this much since the battle of Verdun.

The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts.

Somebody call Janet Reno - I think I just saw Donato dragging Doug Flutie into a locker room closet!

The quarterback's spending so much time behind the center that he may jeopardize his right to lead a Boy Scout troop.

Big deal, so he scored. The last time I saw someone dance like that I had to pay her $20 and have my pants dry cleaned the next day.

That secondary provides worse coverage than a Guatemalan HMO.

Check out the helmet hair on Randy Moss, babe! He looks like some freakish anti-Mr. T after a long evening sleeping through 'Aida.'

I've seen better coverage at an Alan Keyes press conference.

That kid's got an arm like Uncle Fester at an exhibition of Pre-Colombian... um, Christ, I lost it. I was going for something thick. So what's with the beard, Grizzly Fouts?

Warner had more hands in his face than an OB-GYN delivering Vishnu's triplets!

Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island.

Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians.

Hey, Cunningham - Andy Warhol called. You're at 14:55 and we're tickin' big-time here, Chachi.

Detroit's so bad this year they might lose their bye week.

Our target is to get into the play-offs. If not, we want automatic promotion.

Football is one side of me. Art is another. Travel is another.

He'd score more goals if he was a better finisher.

I'm sorry, Alabama fans. I'm from New York and didn't watch football growing up.

Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

To me probably the biggest disappointments, as far as a football career goes, is I feel like I didn't live up to my potential, and I didn't win a Super Bowl ring.

I was on the pom pom team, I was on the cheerleading team, I sang. I played football with the guys 'cause I didn't know how to play double dutch. Anything to get out the house.

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state

We've got something special going here. We want to keep it going. You don't have many opportunities like this, and the window of opportunity for us is now.

It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays.

I'm just feeling like it was meant to be. What can I say? The birth of my son, and in the first year of his life, we won a Super Bowl Championship.

I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.

I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

I expect to make big plays. And when I don't, I'm upset about it.