Best 3811 quotes in «football quotes» category

It brought Pittsburgh into the picture of football teams in the National Football League that, ‘OK, you have to deal with us now.’

It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith)

It could end up like the Dog & Duck against the Red Lion.

It does not make a goalkeeper look good and, after it, I did not want to celebrate out of respect for him.

It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.

It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn

It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.

It felt like I'd been playing second-string football for a long time, when, suddenly, I was playing in the Super Bowl. Even when 'Basic Instinct' was a hit, I still felt like I was running with that ball toward the end zone. It took awhile for me to realize that I was already in the end zone with the ball down and the crowd screaming on its feet.

It gave the title to Manchester City - it's as simple as that.

It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.

It has all happened so quickly, but it's exciting, I just wanna get back to playing football you know.

It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened.

It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

I think any football is a guy that is able to one, be able to be humble and hungry off the field, but at the same time on the football field understand what they have to get done and be a little bit ferocious.

I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.

I think boring is a team that plays at home and can not score a goal.

I think everyone should pursue their dreams. Whether you want to play football, act, sing, become a writer or whatever you have burning inside you as you’re growing up, you should pursue it.

I think (fantasy football) has become something that needs to be looked at in terms of regulation. Effectively, it's day trading without any regulation at all. When you have insider information, which has apparently been the case, when you have people who use that information, use big data to try and take advantage of it, there has to be some regulation. If they can't regulate themselves, then the NFL needs to look at moving away from them a little bit, and there should be some regulation.

I think football management has obviously changed and evolved in terms of practices and methods, but I would say the values we strive to hold are the same as great men like Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley.

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football.

I think I'm starting to figure out when I need to get rid of it and when I don't need to.

I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.

I think in international football you have to be able to handle the ball.

I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.

I think it's clearly the result of something that looks like a campaign.

I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world.

I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.

I think it would be great for football in Britain if Pep Guardiola wins leagues and dominates for a while with the way he likes to play and the players he'll bring in.

I think I've proven that I'm throw-first, and then run if I need to.

I think it's important to cross train. Surfing is a good cross training sport for your shoulders. I don't think I know of any other football player who does it, who can go and paddle out past the sets.

I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.

I think just what my parents instilled in me was hard work and being able to always go out there and focus and be 100%. I took that work ethic into the NFL and everyday I always gave 100% and never wanted anything to be handed to me. I wanted to earn it. And every time I stepped on that football field during practice I wanted to leave that football field with learning something about what the practice was about for me that day...

I think I've proven I can build a team that plays a way of football that excites and challenges at the top end of the table.

I think Marshawn Lynch is the most important player in this football game.

I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.

I think my time at West Brom was successful, that's my take on it. I look back on the work I did there with a lot of pride, I enjoyed my time. Unfortunately it ended a bit prematurely but that's what happens, that's the nature of modern day football.

I think my history as a coach shows I like players who are gifted technically and have courage when it comes to being in possession of a football. That is a key quality for me.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

I think now Messi is probably done more than most players. But he is in the same class as Alfredo de Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Pelé. When he finishes and he retires, he will automatically become one of them. A player that people will talk about forever, while the game of football is as good and as popular as it is. He is a sensational player.

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

I think part of what people are responding to with Lambeau Field is that it's a solid culture. There's so much committed to what hockey means and that's how we feel about football. It's just a great connection between the culture of football and the culture of hockey.