Best 3811 quotes in «football quotes» category

Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called "the offside rule". Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.

Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

Plan your work and work your plan.

Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.

Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players.

Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back

Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree.

Peru score their third, and It's 3-1 to Scotland.

Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

Peter Crouch, the Marmite of football.

Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.

Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales.

Politics in Iran is not played like American football. It's played like chess. There are multiple moves. You're jumping ahead. And a lot of it is very subtle, and it catches you by surprise later on. So I don't want to go overboard on this.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses.

Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil.

Politics is like watching football. Yes, you can see it directly on your screen, but I think a lot of people want to have some understanding of what's happening, why the play is unfolding the way it is, and I think that's where it can help them, not to render judgments but to help people make their own judgments in a more informed way.

Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

Pressue is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football

Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football.

Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend.

Professional football is a job and it's in the entertainment business.

Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years.

Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football

Progressing to where you can play a big role in football is nothing you can achieve in just two years. It will at least take five, six, well more likely seven years. A once-in-a-life-time success does not help you, constant quality is what you have to go for.

Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it make it so. All of them are fearless. All of them are strong, quick. And all of them are part of a story that began long ago. A story written by men who found, in the sport, a demanding measure for their own courage and ability.

Professional football's a tough game. It's a lot of contact. It's a lot of wear and tear on your body. You've got elite athletes running into each other, play after play, at high speeds. And this is something that I love and I enjoy.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

Rapport? You mean like, You'll run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can?

Rangers are definitely on the back heel now

Quite literally, you would not have put your shirt on him two weeks ago.

Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

Rebounding helps a lot with your ball skills, because you're able to go get the ball at a high point, which is what they want you to do in football.

Reading just had a great five-man move that involved everyone.

Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park.

Referee Norlinger is outstanding in the sense that he stands out.