Football Quotes

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be.

I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.

Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland

There have been miraculous stories in the history of big football events all around the globe, with host nations achieving fantastic results and even winning titles with the support of their fans.

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!

The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

Thinking ... is what gets you caught from behind.

NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

Turkish football serves the cause of nationalism, but not of the nation.

Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.

Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.

I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

Why do you hang out with him?" "We're teammates." Ahhh. And if blood was thicker than water, then football, evidently, would congeal in one's veins.

Holland I think is the best school to learn football. I think its a great league for that because it's not the strongest league in Europe.

Maybe I didn't go to the sexy football school, but I paved my way.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.

I'm one of the most competitive guys in the NFL. Believe me, nobody wants it more than me.

My concentration and focus level tends to go down sometimes when I'm in a bad mood.

I'm a country boy who hasn't really been exposed to city living, and it throws me.

And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from pursuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, than I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.

You don't have to win it, just don't lose it.

You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.

I don't train for football; I train more for a lifestyle.

Martin Jol has put his hands on his heads.

If you were in the Brondby dressing room right now, which of the Liverpool players would you be looking at?

Scoring three away from home - you can't do better than that.

Fabregas literally carries 10 yards of space around in his shorts.

I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

Africans are not as tall as northern Europeans. But Manute Vol and other sports figures in basketball and football receive a lot of press coverage.

We heard the army before we saw it. The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas.

The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.

Football is my job, not my life, but it's a job I'm going to give my all for as long as I'm in it.

Football is the most important thing in my life, but I do have a life outside football and this is one part. The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand.

At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.

He runs a very tightly knit ship

No score in the other game betwen top club and bottom club, Switzerland and Georgia.

There's just a big, empty football field that's supposed to be filled with monsters that I haven't even thought of.

I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

Last time I checked I was able to throw the ball a little bit.

I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.

I try to go through my reads and then, if I have the option to run, I do run.

There's a fine line between playing with fear and then taking bad plays and playing with no fear.

I'm always studying. I probably wrote the most papers of any college quarterback.

The only reason you get drafted or even looked at by the NFL is because they believe you can play at the next level ... if they believe I can do that, you know I believe I can do it.