Football Quotes

It brought Pittsburgh into the picture of football teams in the National Football League that, ‘OK, you have to deal with us now.’

I love the Premier League, I absolutely love Premier League games. Removing myself a footballer, I watch the Premier League. It's a great league, fantastic football is played in it.

All the cul-de-sacs are closed for Scotland.

They say football is America's greatest game, but it's not. The greatest game in America is called opportunity. Football is merely a great expression of it.

If you aren't the chairman of Manchester United, Real Madrid or AC Milan, I'll get back to you later.

We're in the top six, we've got five points and I've told the lads we need another 80 to win the League.

I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.

We did not pass the ball... we couldn't have found our front two with radar.

If it had gone in, it would have been a goal.

I don't want to compare Bowditch to Matt Le Tissier, but the way he scored his goal was similar to Matt.

I don't blame individuals, I blame myself.

The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced .... Zooommmmm.

I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain but I'm wasting my breath.

What I try to do is create an energy, create an excitement, but at the same time keep everybody focused and realize it's still just a game, that we have to move the football.

Football is what I love, and I know I can do it, too.

There is only one ball, so you need to have it.

Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game.

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd.

Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.

For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world.

Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner.

Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.

Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.

I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

Doncaster will hit Villa with fire and broomstick.

The USA are a goal down, and if they don't get a goal they'll lose.

This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.

Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation

It's as if there's a magnet on the outside of the posts and bar.

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.

Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.

The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.

Ruud Gullit was able to impose his multi-lingual skills on this match.

Football is my guilty pleasure.

Today, professional football is about profit and making money. But it's not about how much money you spend, it's about how wisely you spend it.

That's put a strain on his left-hand knee.

Harry [Redknapp] is going to be literally, literally pulling his hair out.

Winning all the time is not necessarily good.

I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.

I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.

Now let me say that Matt Busby was a great manager and Manchester United wouldn't be where they are without him. He was a god at the club, but he wasn't a god to me. Football is like that sometimes.

I don't see myself as Johnny Football.

That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex.

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.