Best 3811 quotes in «football quotes» category

If Villa got another goal now it would change the scoreline completely.

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

If we can choose where to cry, at home or with a few people who will be fully understanding, perhaps we will feel easier. But if we can't - if we are in church and a hymn catches us off guard, or at a football game and we remember being there with a son or daughter now gone - well, the earth is our home and we can cry where we want.

If we'd kept a clean sheet tonight we'd have won 1-0.

If we do what we do without panicking, we can accomplish great things.

If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play.

If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent.

If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.

If we write our laws and design them around the most privileged members of society, i.e., billionaire football team owner, then we forget about the people who don't have the same resources to make an appeal, to fight a wrongful accusation. Those tend to be members of the LGBT community and people of color because those are the people who tend to engage in the work of reappropriation to subvert discrimination. And yet those are the same ones being denied, based on their own identities.

If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

If you aren't the chairman of Manchester United, Real Madrid or AC Milan, I'll get back to you later.

If you are worshipping false gods-such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or gold or silver-and you can tell what a man worships by what he does on Sunday-repent and start worshipping the true and living God, the maker of heaven and earth and all things that in them are.

If you are young and open, and start loving football and really think about it then there are not a lot of alternatives to LFC. If you are a fan of another club it's okay too. But if you want to be a fan of 'the' club then it's Liverpool FC.

If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

If you can get through the first round you have a good chance of getting into the next one.

If you come from Spain, you have to play football.

If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.

If you can't stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen

If you cut Jamie Carragher open, he'll bleed red.

If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.

If you dont live, eat, breathe, football, then youre not a true football player. You just wear the jersey.

If you don't score you are not going to win a match.

If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.

If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet.

If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

If you have everything prepared, the rest will take care of itself.

If you haven't got a gun, you can't shoot anyone. We need to look at how these guns are getting into our communities. It's about replacing the negativity with good stuff. Give kids music studios in the community they can use for free and see how they learn to work together. Football and music unify kids.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

If you look at any type of situation, I look at the positive and try to spread my light and truth. I think it helps with my outlook on life and correlates to football. But I don't think it helps me run any faster, jump any higher, or catch the ball or anything like that. It just helps me with perspective.

If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you love the uncertainty of teams that cannot defend yet have the courage to attack, attack, attack, then Seville was heaven... The common denominator between the victories of Arsenal and Fenerbache? The strength of mind, the courage to dare in another team's domain, the inner belief that is as much a part of sporting success as the skill a fellow may be born with.

If you limit yourself, in my opinion you’re just saying, ‘We’re not supposed to win this game.’ You’re playing into their hands. You are scared of what of this team does. You can’t go into the game scared, that’s for sure. Richard Sherman, a great player but you have to play football.

If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.

If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.

If you look at the whole package, with everything Henry has, I don't think you can find that anywhere else. You give him the ball in the right place and his acceleration will take him past any defender in the world.

If you look at the world-class performers at the top of the game, their numbers are just exceptional and that is the level he is at.

If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?

If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.

If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.

If you play football, theres going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

If you're 14 and you're skinny, you can't be on the football team, basically. It's just not even really possible. But skating is something that you can do that gets that athletic urge satisfied, but you get to do it on your own terms. You can be as ballsy as you want to be. It was perfect for me.

If you're a man and you've ever been antique shopping during a big football game, you're either gay or married.