Best 3811 quotes in «football quotes» category

The Merseyside derby games are unique in the city.

The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

The mold that everyone is seeing nowadays is kind of the Aaron Rodgers mold - I try to mix and match from the different quarterbacks.

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.

The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game.

The most beautiful sight in football is too watch Manchester United chase a game.

The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.

The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

The most important people at Liverpool Football Club are the people who want to be here.

The most important thing about winning is believing that you can win no matter who you are playing.

The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor.

The National Football league is on the wrong side of history.

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

The new season will be all about scoring more goals than the opposition.

The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain.

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.

The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.

The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

The NFL has done a great job in giving players information on how to go to a second career after football and how to invest their money while they're playing to ensure when their career is over, that they have something else in place to fall back on. One of the big things the NFL does is promote education in different fields.

The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.

Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.

Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.

The offense sells tickets and the defense wins the games.

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.

The only bowl Rutgers is going to is the one I just got off of.

The one I can't imagine anyone taking seriously, but was one of my favorites, was the mesh football jersey top, paired with a really short pair of athletic shorts.

The one great thing about football is that whatever happens it will manifest itself on the pitch. If it's right, you'll see it on the pitch, if it's wrong, it will be on the pitch. In business you can get fellas who are doing crooked deals and nobody knows anything about it. There is an ultimate honesty about football. Politics is part of the lying game, I wouldn't trust any of them. In football you can hide for a while, but ultimately the truth comes out. I always loved that.

The one thing that I really dislike, is being alone.

The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

The only place where we're not segregated in mass is in sports. You go to a football stadium or a basketball arena, and all of America is there: the wealthy, the poor, the black, white, Latino, conservative, liberal, and we all talk about sports.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

The only moment football really stops is with a penalty kick - and that is a moment that is really dramatic. A penalty kick becomes a Western duel. It's two guys facing each other. Destiny and potential death, whether metaphorical or literal. That's why in the penalty kick at the end of the film, I shot it like an homage to the Sergio Leone Westerns I saw when I was a kid, especially The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

The only reason you get drafted or even looked at by the NFL is because they believe you can play at the next level ... if they believe I can do that, you know I believe I can do it.

The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.

The only time I got the absolute most insanely nervous in my life was at the Olympic trials, because archery is a horrible spectator sport. Nobody goes and watches an archery tournament. Because the targets are three-quarters of a football field away. Who can tell who's winning? You can't even see your own target from where you are.

The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.

The only team that believed in me was the Saints, and I feel like I owe them a great debt of gratitude. I want to give them what they saw in me-a guy who could lead this team to a championship.

The only thing that's running well in Bulgaria is the Bulgarian Football Union. Unlike the BFU, many footballers here don't run, they limp.

The only thing that really bugs me about television's coverage is those damn women they have down on the sidelines who don't know what the hell they're talking about. I mean, I'm not a sexist person, but a woman has no business being down there trying to make some comment about a football game.

The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to EuroDisney.

The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.