Best 3811 quotes in «football quotes» category

After I got disciplined I got introduced to football and then after that everything just took off for me. I had a lot of role models: the teachers, the coaches. Watching them give so much to so many students so they can be successful in life basically just ingrained in me that I think it's more gratifying for me to give back and than just to receive.

After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.

After the game, I'm a completely different person. I drink some beers with friends and try to get my mind completely off football.

After you've won something, you're no longer 100 percent, but 90 percent. It's like a bottle of carbonated water where the cap is removed for a short while. Afterwards there's a little less gas inside.

A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate.

A game is not won until it is lost.

Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.

Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned 'some accountants and solicitors with them.

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.

A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.

A great football team is the right balance and the right mixture of players. Good leaders, good communicators and good technicians. You need people that are strategically astute. People need passion, desire and most importantly, a willingness to keep learning.

A great deal of it is mental, the ability to learn within the game, to perform at a high level - often with injury - and to weather the ups and downs of an emotional game through a 16-game season. Also, there is the willingness to prepare in the offseason, the film room, to learn the scheme and execute without a lot of repetition - that's football character.

A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano. ...being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.

A holocaust of an afternoon.

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.

Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn.

[Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that he learnt his 'morality'. It's something sensed, it won't pass uniquely through thought. It couldn't possibly.

Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.

Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.

Al Davis is a legend and his contribution and influence on the game of football, the National Football League, and the Oakland Raiders has been profound for decades. To view his contribution and influence on a season-by-season basis does not make sense: he has dominated the industry for a lifetime. I can't tell you how he may have impacted or guided other individuals during their careers but I can speak from personal experience. He inspires me to be better every day than I was the day before.

Alex Smith, what he’s done over the last two years for this football team, this is a mistake in not starting him. He needs to be the guy and it’s going to be tough if (Colin) Kaepernick doesn’t play well today and now you’re coming back saying, ‘Alex, we’re going to put you back in there.’

Alex McLeish will have had kittens - literally!

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

Al journalism should be investigative, from football to cookery

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war)

All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division

All I know of morality I learned from football

All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.

All the cul-de-sacs are closed for Scotland.

All of West Ham's away victories have come on opponents' territory this season

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.

All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him

All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.

All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was.

Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.

A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.

All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

Ally McCoist will always get you a goal, whether he's playing or on the bench.

A losing football team looks at excuses. A championship football team looks at solutions.

A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.

A lot of people have lost interest in watching England play. To get motivated to watch international football, you need your country to be having some form of success and England haven't had any for a long time now.

A lot of people are doubting us right now, ... But the reality is that we've lost two conference games on the last play of the game. . . . We have a lot of freshmen and sophomores running around out there, and they're good players. You look at us on paper, and I think we have the chance to develop into a very good football team this year and into next.

A lot of people have already labeled me the Savior.

A lot of people wanted me to play college football, but I wanted to get started playing pro baseball.