Football Quotes

I am more than happy at Blackpool and I am afraid the chairman will need a hell of a tub of cream to get rid of me - I'm like a bad rash and not easily curable.

The dietician is going to get rid of that when he comes in. Although, first, we've got to get a dietician.

I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.

Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball

I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.

The only thing that's running well in Bulgaria is the Bulgarian Football Union. Unlike the BFU, many footballers here don't run, they limp.

What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!

First, learn how to report traffic jams, then you can talk about football. (on Bulgarian journalists)

Footballs, basketballs, microphones, gas and grass... Just some of the few things that J-Ro likes to pass.

I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.

When I look back on when I grew up, not even football players lifted weights. That was back 50 years ago.

There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.

I don't watch that much football... I really like to play it.

Arsenal have been literally passed to death.

I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream.

In the game of football, you can never be too sure of anything.

It all went a bit grape-shaped.

You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network.

I've been fortunate and blessed to further my career in the Arena Football League, and I've had a good time doing it.

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

I don't watch a lot of football for fun. I've tried, but I'm always looking to see if the left tackle is holding.

I'm not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.

After the game, I'm a completely different person. I drink some beers with friends and try to get my mind completely off football.

There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.

I feel 21. I've looked after myself and take my football seriously.

For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You-Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club, that's just normal.

When you are young nothing is more important than football but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

There is still a lot of football in me and I enjoy watching the players go out there and be the best players they can possibly be.

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.

I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me.

I'm not pro-owner or pro-player. I am pro-football. I want the game to go on. I want the game to be tough. I don't want the game to be a killer of our players.

I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

Some people wouldn't say I coached in the National Football League. I coached with the Raiders, right?

Liverpool will be without Kvarme tonight - he's illegible.

The first half has gone how I almost half-anticipated.

I'd like to have seen Tony Morley left on as a down-and-out winger.

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

Thank you... preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.

Once again it was Gough who stood firm for Scotland in the air

Peter Weir has just shrugged off an ankle injury

I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.

I believe in being positive.

When you win and you don't have anyone to share it with, why win? You have someone to share it with you.

I never had a desire to hurt anybody.