Best 3811 quotes in «football quotes» category

First, learn how to report traffic jams, then you can talk about football.  (on Bulgarian journalists)

First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.

First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.

First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general.

First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

First, you've got to get the job. "Yeah, I can do it," I would say. When I was a kid, I could do anything. Lucky nobody ever asked me if I could fly a jet plane.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz - everything pulls together into one intense moment that is beautiful.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

Football has always been a stepping stone for my education.

Football has to work really hard to put a smile on peoples face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if youre always going to sell out to the highest bidder.

Football hooligans? Well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

Football is easy; I’ve done this since I was a baby. To me, that’s not success. Success to me is being a world changer…I say football is my platform, not my purpose. How can I use my platform to fulfill my purpose? I want people to say that he fulfilled his purpose.

Football is for the fans. It can be the greatest game in the world but if there are no people to watch it, it becomes nothing. The fans are the lifeblood of the game.

Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods.

Football is my first passion. I've played it since I was a little kid.

Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.

Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.

Football is not played on paper, it is played on a pitch. This game is not mathematics and in football, two plus two very rarely equals four - it's usually three or five.

Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.

Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young or old, players or fans, rich or poor, the game makes everyone equal, stirs the imagination, makes people happy and makes them sad

Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner.

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

Football is what I love, and I know I can do it, too.

Football leads to a crime rate among people that play in the NFL that is less than the gen pop, the general population. The numbers have been run. It's just that people who play football are stars and, as such, what they do occurs with greater media scrutiny. So when one of them happens to engage in some sort of questionable behavior, it happens to (in a lot of it people's minds) speak for the whole sport and everybody that plays it.

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.

Football, bloody hell!

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at this to see if there is any way to improve safety. We need to set some standards, because the ones now are not protecting players to the highest level.

Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game.

Football is a contact sport and there's a lot that goes into it. But I have committed myself for a long time to doing it, and because I love doing it so much I want to make that commitment.

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

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

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.