Football Quotes

We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.

I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

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.

If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.

Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.

I remember cleaning boots at Millwall on £250 a week and feeling like a millionaire. I'd made it then. At that time, if I never played for another club it wouldn't have bothered me too much because I'd made it with a football team in England.

I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

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.

If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.

It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.

The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.