Best Football Team Quotes

#1. The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior year. It was super-competitive. We lost in the semifinals my senior year, and it still haunts me.

Theo Rossi

#2. And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me.

Craig Johnston

#3. When you play a team with as much attacking power as Barcelona and you restrict them to one shot on target in the second leg, you are doing something right. Have the best football team gone through? Yes. Have the best organised team gone through? No.

Jamie Redknapp

#4. I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

Pele

#5. To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

Tom Brady

#6. Education depends on the quality of the teacher, not the site or beauty of the buildings-- nor, I might add, does it depend on the winning record of the football team, and I like football.

Anonymous

#7. If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

Michael Mandelbaum

#8. Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players.

Marv Levy

#9. I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day!

Les Miles

#10. We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.

Linda McCartney

#11. They looked like linebackers on a prison football team, whose idea of commincation was to smash into something at full speed, preferably another person.

John Verdon

#12. Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.

David Pleat

#13. In my first season I was learning about English football in a new team. I scored 13 which isn't bad, but I think I can do better.

Luis Garcia

#14. One man doesn't make a team. It takes eleven.

Bear Bryant

#15. In New York now, they have Harvey Milk High School for gay students. They don't have much of a football team, but the half-time show ...

Bill Maher

#16. Okay, I know he was captain of the football team and he could bake a cake - that didn't mean I was ready to suck his finger. I was picky about what I put in my mouth. "I'll wait," I told him. "Wouldn't want to spoil my appetite.

Janet Evanovich

#17. The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

Novak Djokovic

#18. I love playing football. I started playing for a school team, which is fun, and I play a lot of five a side. I nowhere near good enough to go professional but it's definitely one of my main hobbies. I play three times a week.

Matthew Lewis

#19. I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.

Irv Kupcinet

#20. I think everyone in their life has some point on their life wanted to be like everybody else or wanted to be like the captain of the football team.

Marc-Andre Grondin

#21. England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#22. They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.

Kevin Keegan

#23. We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we're the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#24. I hated school ... I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.

Trent Reznor

#25. Bill Belichick is the best professional football coach I think ever lived. I'm upset that I played for a plethora of teams and never got an opportunity to play for Bill Belichick.

Deion Sanders

#26. The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work.

Knute Rockne

#27. So proud to be joining the best team in the world.

Michael Owen

#28. The best part of it for me is the idea that this group of young men, who came together and believed in themselves, bought the team concept completely, took the names off the back of the jerseys, checked the egos at the door.

Tom Coughlin

#29. Last night we were the best team on the day.

Roy Aitken

#30. In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

Bill Shankly

#31. For me, Brett Emerton is the heart and soul of the Australian team. Him signing for Sydney FC, it has to be the biggest catch in the history of Australian football. He's a machine and he's probably the best pro I've ever trained and worked with.

Tim Cahill

#32. The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team

Barry Sanders

#33. Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.

George Allen

#34. The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.

Joe Namath

#35. Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride.

Terry Bradshaw

#36. As of today, you do anything that I feel is disrespecting our program in any way, you are gone! From this day forward, everyone will be at practice in uniform as we will either build this program into something or we will destroy it!

George M. Gilbert

#37. One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.

Tim Tebow

#38. I think I've proven I can build a team that plays a way of football that excites and challenges at the top end of the table.

Brendan Rodgers

#39. Tottenham Hotspur has a huge following across the world and I have great admiration for the passion the fans show for this team. We are determined to give the supporters the kind of attacking football and success that we are all looking to achieve.

Mauricio Pochettino

#40. What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.

Steve Spurrier

#41. That's the biggest shame there is, that L.A. doesn't have a team. I was a big fan of the L.A. Rams, and when they left, I lost interest. Then there was the Raiders, and they left. How they can't have a football team in the biggest market in the world is beyond me.

Eric Braeden

#42. How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we have a chance to have a good football team. I don't have any health problems. I don't know how any of the stuff gets started ... My health is very good.

LaVell Edwards

#43. When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh.

Sarah Dessen

#44. I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.

Parker Young

#45. I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

Katie Aselton

#46. In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves. And that's what people have to do, too-make sure they don't beat themselves.

Woody Hayes

#47. What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change.

Tony Dungy

#48. There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.

Taylor Swift

#49. I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#50. You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

Eric Cantona

#51. With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.

Graeme Souness

#52. My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.

Jacob Latimore

#53. I enjoy watching football on TV. Many times I can visualize the whole field, even on the TV screen, because I still know enough about what the teams are doing.

Tony Dungy

#54. To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.

George M. Gilbert

#55. As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

Leigh Steinberg

#56. I'm in love with football, but I just needed to recapture that strength to train and play. So many people helped me along the way that I'm afraid to leave anyone out. Above all, though, I want to mention the help of my medical team that has been working alongside me for the past two years.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#57. Offside killed my team. They are not God. They made a mistake and I understand. I don't want three points, I just want 'sorry.'

Luiz Felipe Scolari

#58. Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses
they tie
who cares? And why?

Edward Abbey

#59. I think the locker room is a huge part of the football team and often is a part thats overlooked. The chemistry in your locker room has a lot to do with how youre going to go out there and perform.

Larry Fitzgerald

#60. I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school into college in the intramurals and I loved it. There was nothing like a team.

Tom Watson

#61. I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.

Steve Sabol

#62. I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the reality of modern football. Big teams only want big players, big players are in big clubs, big clubs want to keep their big players.

Jose Mourinho

#63. Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.

Paul Allen

#64. Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

Wayne Rooney