Football Quotes

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state.

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

Football is like life and I know life.

I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.

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.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

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.

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.