Football Quotes

There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.

God blessed me to play football.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I added five years to his career, and I just think we complimented each other very well and were able to do some amazing things out on the football field.

As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston.

The bottom line is winning. I want to do what we need to do to win football games.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

I love football and beer and have a normal girlfriend.

So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.

The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.

I'm from a council estate myself, and the biggest release we had as kids was football. That's where all the great players learn their trade - as kids having a kickabout.

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.