Best 3811 quotes in «football quotes» category

I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It's not a job, it's a passion. When you become good at it, it's a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.

I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull for you. It's an imminent truth; it's not necessarily a bad thing. You realize - much earlier than my age now - that you won't be able to play for England's football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can't have that life again. Unless you believe in reincarnation or whatever. Reincarnation? That's a whole other question. I find people who talk about that sort of thing in interviews idiotic. And I don't want to go down with them.

I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

I take a good feeling away from what football brings.

I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.

I take pride in the fact that people go home having felt that for 90 minutes today, life is beautiful - and that's it, basically. That's why professional football exists.

Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow.

It all went a bit grape-shaped.

I tape over most of them with Corrie or Neighbours. Most of them are crap. They can f***ing make anyone look good. I signed Marco Boogers off a video. He was a good player but a nutter. They didn't show that on the video.

Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes... You need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.

It brought Pittsburgh into the picture of football teams in the National Football League that, ‘OK, you have to deal with us now.’

It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith)

It could end up like the Dog & Duck against the Red Lion.

It does not make a goalkeeper look good and, after it, I did not want to celebrate out of respect for him.

It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.

It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn

It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.

It felt like I'd been playing second-string football for a long time, when, suddenly, I was playing in the Super Bowl. Even when 'Basic Instinct' was a hit, I still felt like I was running with that ball toward the end zone. It took awhile for me to realize that I was already in the end zone with the ball down and the crowd screaming on its feet.

It gave the title to Manchester City - it's as simple as that.

It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.

It has all happened so quickly, but it's exciting, I just wanna get back to playing football you know.

It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened.

It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

I think any football is a guy that is able to one, be able to be humble and hungry off the field, but at the same time on the football field understand what they have to get done and be a little bit ferocious.

I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.

I think boring is a team that plays at home and can not score a goal.

I think everyone should pursue their dreams. Whether you want to play football, act, sing, become a writer or whatever you have burning inside you as you’re growing up, you should pursue it.

I think (fantasy football) has become something that needs to be looked at in terms of regulation. Effectively, it's day trading without any regulation at all. When you have insider information, which has apparently been the case, when you have people who use that information, use big data to try and take advantage of it, there has to be some regulation. If they can't regulate themselves, then the NFL needs to look at moving away from them a little bit, and there should be some regulation.

I think football management has obviously changed and evolved in terms of practices and methods, but I would say the values we strive to hold are the same as great men like Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley.

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football.

I think I'm starting to figure out when I need to get rid of it and when I don't need to.

I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.

I think in international football you have to be able to handle the ball.

I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.

I think it's clearly the result of something that looks like a campaign.

I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world.

I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

I think it's important to cross train. Surfing is a good cross training sport for your shoulders. I don't think I know of any other football player who does it, who can go and paddle out past the sets.