Football Quotes

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.

I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football.

Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.

I don't have to play football.

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It's what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport.

Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.

Every football player knows when his time is up.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool.

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

It's my whole life of being the little guy and having a little chip on my shoulder, from year to year trying to prove myself, and at the end of the day to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame is a very special honor for me.

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.