Football Quotes

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

Politics and football don't mix.

I would like to think that if I stop playing in three, four, five years time, whatever it may be, that I would still be involved in football and still have that as my profession. It is my passion and what I know.

That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.

Our coaches want to be a part of South Carolina football when they win it for the first time. When they win the division, when they win the SEC, win a major bowl game, etc. The opportunities to do it all for the first time here make it extra special.

I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.

But I just want to be known for my football.

For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.

I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

Horses will never be my career. It's just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that.

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

We had a very exhaustive, extensive search for the guy that is going lead our football team over the next few years. We spent about two months in an in-depth interview process, and Bret came out with flying colors. We are absolutely thrilled that he is our head coach.

Football lost its excitement for me.

But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

So they talk about heaven, and I don't know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. Nothing. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

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.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

There is still a lot of football in me and I enjoy watching the players go out there and be the best players they can possibly be.

And I love shooting football.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.