Football Quotes

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

I love to see Favre playing his best football, and if his mind his right, he'll probably have a fine season.

Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

Because I love football and I love the footballers.

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.

I'm comfortable with my femininity, and I don't try to change what I look like just because I'm reporting on football at the end of the night.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

I want to win football games.

I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.

I lust love to play football.

I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.

There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.

Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly.

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

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.

With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.

But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty.