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In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.

In comparison to the emotionally-charged axing of a striker, Ruud van Nistelrooy, who averaged 30 goals a season, even the sale of David Beckham for, in Real Madrid's opinion, "peanuts", and the never-explained departure of Jaap Stam appear to be the rational acts of a sage and far-sighted manger. To offload a player because he could not be reconciled with a role within the squad is a failing of management.

In college football brad, you know, when you make a first down, first downs that you have possession of aren't really that important because if you make a first down it stops the clock

In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities.

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.

I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.

In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.

I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.

I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.

I never had a desire to hurt anybody.

I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game.

I never make forecasts but whoever wins that game will win the final.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I never make predictions and I never will.

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.

In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.

I never was very big on praying for victory. For God to give a big win to the Denver Broncos, wouldn't He have to take it away from somebody else, say, the Green Bay Packers?

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

In football I enjoyed competing and wanted to be the best. That was also part of it. There were quite a few factors. I loved the game, it was a great way to socialize and I liked playing against girls because it meant competing on a level playing field.

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I'll be safe at home!

In football there is very rarely a "typical day" - there are always issues and challenges that arise from nowhere, and as manager you have to be ready to deal with them.

In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.

In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.

In football, you can never say anything is certain. The benchmark is 38-40 points. That has always been the case. That will never change.

In football, you're taught to react by being aggressive, taught to react with violence. If you can't separate that on the field and off the field, you're going to be in a lot of trouble in your life.

In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out.

In football, hate can be a beautiful thing; sustaining and nourishing, quite unlike other manifestations of an otherwise destructive emotion.

In football you never know, but generally speaking, I feel more than comfortable here [in Borussia Dortmund]. There' s no place on earth I'd rather be.

I never really looked at it like that, but it's true. It's weird that it's been half my life. Because I lead these two separate lives. I've got my life and Harry Potter, where I travel the world, I make films, I meet amazing people, I do press junkets and stuff. And then I go back home to Leeds, where I live, and I've got the same friends from before. I still go to the pub. I still go to watch the football, soccer. And I go shopping at my local shop.

I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.

In football, if you don't score a goal then you cannot win.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.

In football you sometimes have beauty and cruelty together.

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.

In football, time and space are the same thing.