Football Quotes

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.

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.

Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.'

Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.

When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.

In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

I come from a football family which has really helped.

It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.

I remember cleaning boots at Millwall on £250 a week and feeling like a millionaire. I'd made it then. At that time, if I never played for another club it wouldn't have bothered me too much because I'd made it with a football team in England.

I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.

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

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard.

This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach.

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.

Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.