Football Quotes

I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.

Football will always be my foremost passion.

Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.

I have no problem putting my feet up and watching football but my mother-in-law is always doing stuff.

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

I definitely think that females have a harder time. It's a lot harder to be a girl because you're always in your head. I've heard my brother go and take it out on the football as he says. Whereas girls would rather sit down and over think things.

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

I'm married to football, baseball is my girlfriend.

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

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

Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

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

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

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

I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.

English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.

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

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.