Football Quotes

It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

I really do love football.

I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done.

In the States, there's ESPN3, and each country has different options, and other than premiere league football, there tends to be very little global content. And movie and TV rights are pretty broad content.

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

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.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

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 realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.