Football Quotes

My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.

Nothing is a violent as football and I bet you like. Just say you don't like it, or can't identify, don't come up with excuses like "It's too violent" while you wear some team's NFL jersey.

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.

A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.

I hope Stoke stay up this season, and stay up for long enough so that they can get enough money and buy some footballers.

We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result.

The boys performance was so good that I've run out of expletives to describe it.

My reputation when I was first here was that I had every single answer in the book. I don't know, maybe I portrayed that somehow. I was learning, and I continue to learn and I have learned.

And here goes Aguero, looking to relieve himself.

Martin O'Neill, standing, hands on hips, stroking his chin.

Neil Sullivan has stopped absolutely everything have thrown at him...Wimbledon 1, Manchester United 1.

I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland

...evoking memories, particularly of days gone by.

The Uruguayans are losing no time in making a meal around the referee.

I've cut my teeth as a coach with some great head coaches and some great co-workers and I have been very lucky to have learned a lot of football from all of the above.

As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. When I was 16 years old, I started yoga. I started working out at an early age.

My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.

If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.

I love you more than the pool hall, but not as much as football.

I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

I'm a tough guy, but I'm a good guy, I'm durable because when you play football they want you being tough, not just because you sprain your ankle crying "Mama, mama!"

I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.

The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

If people are standing up there saying, my football team just won with help from God, then obviously God just pissed over the other team.

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

I won't name any names but I'll name just one, David Dein.

When Peter Beardsley appears on television, daleks hide behind the sofa.

As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive.

In football, hate can be a beautiful thing; sustaining and nourishing, quite unlike other manifestations of an otherwise destructive emotion.

Great striking partnerships come in pairs.

A terrific game, even on the losing side I could enjoy it.

A big, studly football jock like me? I got plenty of blood to spare. For you, I have anything to spare.

I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.

David James is a cretin.

People with ambition want Paolo Di Canio.

I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.

Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking.

The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.

A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.

Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here.

Arsenal's never-improving injury list increasingly attracts curiosity rather than sympathy.