Best 3811 quotes in «football quotes» category

It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.

It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.

It looks tough for Palace when you see some of the results they've got coming up.

I tried football and got my ass beat. I tried baseball, and the ball knocked out one of my teeth.

I told you I was sick.

I told you the one change we would make in the initial start level of the football pressure, but that's really about it.

I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.

It is wonderful... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special.

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

I tried to talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged I hope the same number of people turn up to protect me. There were six police, four stewards and even a UN peace observer out there.

I tried to nutmeg him. It never came off and he gave me a slap on the back of the head and told me to start behaving

I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

I try to learn from every experience, good or bad.

I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.

It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

It's a bit disappointing when board members who don't know a thing about football are making decisions on your career. When you look at it you've got coaches, senior players and CEO's who wanted me but then it gets to a board meeting and you've got fat businessmen who are making the decision on your career. It was frustrating and it made me a bit angry.

It's a conflict of parallels.

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

It's a group of guys that put their mind to going out and playing great football. Everybody that needed to step up, stepped up. Everybody that needed to make a play, made a play and that's what it's all about.

It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.

It's all about the climate. I had a long discussion about it when I went to Scotland to see Andy Roxburgh. I worked with a Scottish youth side and had them do the same drills I would do in Italy. I realised that, between the wind, the rain and the cold, there was no way they could do it. How can you possibly teach anybody anything in those conditions? To me, it's pretty obvious and it explains why Brazilians are more technical than Europeans and, in Italy, the further south you go the more technical they are.

It's a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy.

It's an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that.

It's a great honour to be asked to be the next manager of Manchester United. I am delighted that Sir Alex saw fit to recommend me for the job. I have great respect for everything he has done and for the football club.

It's a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don't feel as high. It is a different kind of test - can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one?

It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.

It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain.

It's Brazil 2 Scotland 1, so Scotland are back where they were at the start of the match

It's certainly a loss for us here at the University of Washington, because Jeff Compher has been a wonderful friend and administrator. Jeff is a football man first, but he has the compassion and desire to make all of Northern Illinois' programs successful. He's one heck of a guy.

It's cool. You can laugh about it, but at the same time you can't really get caught up in it because you're here for a job and it's to win football games. Being on this team, being with the head coach here and the quarterback we have keeps you humble. It keeps you hard working. You can laugh and giggle about stuff, but then at the same time you've got to make sure you're prepared and practicing hard still.

It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners.

It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to have been involved even if I've had nothing to do with it. That's why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful with what I say because people always try and twist things.

It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.

It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.

It's going to take a shoehorn to prise these two teams apart

It's freaking football. There are going to be big hits. I don't understand how they can do this after one weekend of hitting. And I can't understand how they can suspend us for it. I think it's a bunch of bull.

It's headed away by John Clark, using his head.

It’s important for people to know that I’m still focused on football... I’m handling my business to get ready for the next season.

It's good to have critics because that's what motivates you and helps you take your game to another level, They talked about Michael Jordan and said he didn't have a jump shot. They say the same thing about me ? I can't throw the football and all that. Say whatever you want about me. It makes me strive harder.

It's great to learn more about sports I'm probably less familiar with - stock car racing, rodeo, e-sports - and realize that a lot of the people at the center of those sports bring the same level of passion, commitment and disciple that I try to with football. Sports is a way of life for billions of people around the planet.

It seems that they're playing with one leg tied together.

It's just about bein' yourself...even when you're on the dole, it's about your leather jacket. Music is the last refuge of the working class, along with football...in fact, gigs and riots are the only things left.

It's just that with football, when you don't get the ball, you can't show your talents and that's always been something in the back of my mind.

It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked

It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.

It's more than personal. I can't screw it up. I have to do.

It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays.