Football Quotes

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

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.

And I love shooting football.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.

You can't live on last year, you can't live on the year before. I can't bring in my 13 Pro Bowls in the locker room and say, look at me. No. That is gone. That is the best thing about the game of football is that everybody starts over.

In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!

I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things.

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football.

I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

I want to do what I like and that's play football.

Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine.

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.

You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me.

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids.

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

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

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

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

But the reason that women's football is still unknown is because it's not on television and not widely publicised for a wide majority of the leagues in the world.

Football is what keeps me going, what makes me prosper, and what will keep me straight.