Football Quotes

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.

People say you're too good - you're never too good to go down, believe me. I've seen it at Leeds. We had a better team at Leeds than we have now and they went down eventually.

Drawing a comparison to football, it could be said that the Spanish economy has, during this legislature, into the Champions League of the world economy, however bad that may seem to some.

It gave the title to Manchester City - it's as simple as that.

I think it's clearly the result of something that looks like a campaign.

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking. But I also have things to give them.

If Ashley Cole is ready we have 15 players for the final. I'll have to choose between Hilario, who's not bad playing forward or I'll bring in one of the kids.

Four wins in four matches. It could not be better... the world is fantastic.

Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.

I think boring is a team that plays at home and can not score a goal.

The dog is in Portugal and the city of London is safe.

Eleven against eleven they never beat us.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art.

I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

I didn't even grow up with football. I learned the rules of football on this show [The League].

Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.

I never make forecasts but whoever wins that game will win the final.

I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.

A difficult decision for the referee's assistant. I wouldn't beat him up over it.

Javier Chevanton don't speak the language too good.

At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?

England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.

It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.

Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger.

Football's always easier when you've got the ball.

Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millionaire.

This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.

I get paid to play football, not to sit on the bench, I don't enjoy that. Over the years loads of players have been very happy to do that and pick up their money. That used to really wind me up.

Who is the muppet coaching Chelsea??? AVB??? Hmmm!! 25yrs for Ferguson, hopefully not even 6 months for this AVB geezer!

The best art on a football field usually happens during kickoff returns.

I'm not pro-life, and I'm not pro-choice. I'm pro-football.

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

I liken actors and movies and TV shows to football teams. We all have our favorite ones.

I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.

Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.

I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in the zone.

It's nice for us to have a fresh face in the camp to bounce things off.

Your name is Sanchez, what are you doing playing for Northern Ireland?

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.

I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don't think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things.

My family was always present when I needed them and sometimes felt even stronger emotions than me.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. For example, I want to shoot equally well with both feet.

You have got to love the game.

I know how important it is to have a helping hand. In my childhood I had difficult times because of hormonal problems. If I hadn't had support, I wouldn't have been able to fulfill my dreams.