Football Quotes

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.

We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.

I have had interviews and got close to taking a managerial job. I would consider going back into football.

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'

My father was an all-American football player.

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'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.

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.