Football Quotes

When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one.

The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.

The eiderdown of this 2-0 lead is a lot more comfortable than the blanket of 1-0.

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.

I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.

If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now.

The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.

You have to be on the pitch to play football.

Italians have a very closed life. Football is all their life is.

There was nothing wrong with the performance, apart from throwing away the game.

I think in international football you have to be able to handle the ball.

International football is one clog further up the football ladder

Football's all about 90 minutes

It was a titanic effort.

When Andy Carroll first appeared on the scene he was a tall skinny kid and his coordination was all over the place. He reminded me of a giraffe.

David James is frustrated because he thinks us being bottom isn't helping his chances with England. I think it gives him more chance to show his ability.

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

He could have done one of three things. He didn't do either.

Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.

I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.

People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'.

Ramires is involved in everything he does.

Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency.

He's started anticipating what's going to happen before it's even happened.

I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football.

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.

The running backs are the strengths of their football team. They have quality players who can do a number of things for their team.

But my biggest passion is football.

As the seconds tick down, Belgium are literally playing in time that doesn't exist.

McCartney's first involvement is to be stripped by Saha

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

Football, like life, is about change.

There are few secrets in football. So execute.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and tenacity.

I went to school with a guy named Truxton. He and I played football together, and he knocked me out once because he's bigger and strong than I am.

Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!

I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic.

I think if they hadn't scored, we might have got a better result.

We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season!