Football Quotes

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.

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.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.

I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.

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.

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.