Best 3811 quotes in «football quotes» category

I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston.

I am a football fan, yeah.

I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.

I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

I am delighted to be here at Arsenal and to be part of one of the great teams in English football. It's a huge satisfaction to join this great club and it’s been a dream since I was young to play in the Premier League. I was attracted by the philosophy of football and Arsène Wenger’s 'touch' at this club. I have always admired Arsenal with its great history and reputation, and I now hope to achieve great things here. I’m very proud to be a Gunner and I will give my best for all the Arsenal fans.

I am from a city (Glasgow) that is not unlike Liverpool. I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans. It is a fantastic opportunity, something you dream about. I said 'yes' right away as it is such a big club.

I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

I am in a lot of pain. They say it is more pain than when you have a baby but I don't know as I have not had one. It is not possible.

I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans

I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world

I am more than happy at Blackpool and I am afraid the chairman will need a hell of a tub of cream to get rid of me - I'm like a bad rash and not easily curable.

I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say that playing football is all I have ever wanted to do and to have had such a long and successful career at Manchester United has been a real honour. This was not a decision that I have taken lightly but I feel now is the right time for me to stop playing. To have been part of the team that helped the Club reach that 19th title is a great privilege.

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.

I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.

I am not taking legal action against any team-mate.

I am very aggressive and very physical. On the field, I guess I am just plain mean.

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear, a polar bear.

I am very athletic, actually, and I'm good at most sports. But I was never a successful athlete, because I have a lot of trouble with authority. To be a good athlete, you have to have sort of a military attitude. You have to enjoy being coached, and that was not something I ever liked. But more than that, I don't like practice, and coaches hate anybody that doesn't like practice. If you saw me throwing a football, you'd say, "Wow, he knows how to throw a football." But put me on a field, I'm not gonna stand out.

Ian Baird is dashing around like a steam roller up front.

I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too.

I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.

I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'

I asked the players: 'Do you want to enjoy the game? Or do you want to enjoy after the game?' The players told me they wanted to enjoy after the game so I said: 'OK, then we will enjoy after the game'.

I assured myself that I'd seen the most wicked block perpetuated by man or beast.

I approach football like a street-ball game, like I'm playing with the fellas in the yard.

I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet.

I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy.

I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.

I believe in being positive.

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

I believe it is right when not only me, but also my colleagues - the prime minister, ministers, deputies of the State Duma - when they, like today, for example, participate in two marathons, when they visit football matches, when they themselves take part in sport competitions. That is how, inter alia, millions of people start feeling interest in and love for fitness and sports. I believe it is extremely important.

I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.

I believe that if you die trying to be your best, the world is still a better place.

I believe that I have a platform because God blessed me with the talent to play football. Having that talent, my job is to be responsible with it.

I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

I bet you like sitting at red lights.

I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest - If you can't take it, you shouldn't play!

I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

I can pick up any sport pretty quickly - believe me, I know how to throw a football.

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.