Football Quotes

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.

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.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

Growing up in Canada, I didn't watch football much.

It's football season; anything can happen.

With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.

There are hundreds of Beckhams playing football all over the world.

After all, is football a game or a religion?

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands.

Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.

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.

Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.

But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football.

I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.

For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway.

English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.