Football Quotes

When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football.

I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

I want to do what I like and that's play football.

Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine.

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.

You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me.

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids.

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

But the reason that women's football is still unknown is because it's not on television and not widely publicised for a wide majority of the leagues in the world.

The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.

The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.

Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.

I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.

I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.

Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.