Best 3811 quotes in «football quotes» category

The job now is to institutionalize all of that [Vatican finances], and I wouldn't bet against Cardinal [George] Pell, who hasn't shied away from contact sports since his days as an Australian-rules football star.

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

The lads really ran their socks into the ground.

The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access tv station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.

The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

The last time I was charged by the FA they had a murder lawyer in against me, so it's going to be a hard case to win.

The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.

The little boy inside me was screaming 'Manchester United'. United breathes football... the perfect match for me.

The linesman flagged initially because he thought I was an Oldham player. Fair enough, I did have a replica shirt on - but I also have a big furry head.

The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.

The main reason for doing it now had more to do with the players. This is a great group. This particular group has really worked hard to prepare themselves. And we have a chance to have a good football team.

The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.

The manager could not even talk to us at the interval. He said we were bad.

The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

The media character-assassinated me and perceived me as this monster. When you look at my record ... I jumped a taxi as a 21-year-old, which I'm sorry for, and I urinated twice in public. That's in 11 years of football. I've never assaulted women and never been done for drink driving. My conscience is clear.

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

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

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

The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know the result look away now as we show you Tony Adams lifting the cup for Arsenal.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 one thing that I really dislike, is being alone.

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

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

The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.

The part of football you don't see with all the buddies I ever had, we might have gone out and thrown some passes, but we never went out to knock the hell out of each other just to do it. You do that when the time comes to push the ball downfield or keep it from going down the field. That's why I think football has a great place.