Family Football Quotes

#1. I've been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.

Bill Shankly

#2. Adora you're not telling the truth. Go back to your husband and pay gross devotion to your marriage and family. Edochie is an angel. Only agberos would watch football and transfer aggression to their wives, not a captain.

S.A. David

#3. It's pretty easy for me to say that the most important thing in my life is my relationship with Jesus Christ, followed by my relationship with family. And football's later on down the line.

Tim Tebow

#4. I was baptized Methodist, but I was mainly raised First Church of NFL, which is to say that my family, especially my father, was much more concerned with watching football on Sundays than attending services.

Christopher Moore

#5. I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I'm the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family.

Barry Pepper

#6. We've got some talented people in my family in regards to football, and we do it the right way.

Clay Matthews III

#7. When I was in high school, my mom hated football. But then, the more I played, the more it grew on her. This game has done a lot for my family - not just from a financial standpoint, but it also helped bring my family together.

Nick Ferguson

#8. The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

Pele

#9. Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.

Trevor Bayne

#10. I would like to thank the United staff for making me feel so welcome and part of the United family from my first day. And of course thank you to those fans who have supported me throughout the season.

David Moyes

#11. In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

Brett Favre

#12. That's where the challenge has been. Balancing football and life. Trying not to replay every play in my head while I'm with my family. Sometimes, I've done it well. Other times, I haven't.

Chad Pennington

#13. Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.

Pele

#14. A football team is really a big family. There's a give and take ... but a few are working for their name only. They go the whole week trying to figure out who said something, what they said and where it happened instead of showing that they're big men.

Otto Rehhagel

#15. With Browns' ticket prices what they are, you just know that all those dads who brought the entire family to sit in the 'dog pound' are secretly calculating how much blood they're going to have to sell next week to put groceries on the table.

Dennis Miller

#16. When you're 18, when you're at college, sports can be your life. You can watch every baseball game, every college basketball game, every football game. Once you have a family and kids, you can't do that anymore.

Drew Magary

#17. I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.

Robert Kennedy

#18. I'm a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It's pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football too.

Timothy F. Cahill

#19. But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life ... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

Brett Favre

#20. For me, I'm lucky to have a lot of close friends - through football or through my family.

Justin Tuck

#21. I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He's blessed me with and the opportunity He's given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.

Sam Bradford

#22. In my final years in Green Bay, when I wasn't getting the ball, people would ask me why I never complained.
'Because these guys are my family,' I would say. 'I'm not selfish. It's not about me. It's about these guys, my family, and winning championships together.

Donald Driver

#23. My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen.

Morris Chestnut

#24. I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.

Chuck Pagano

#25. For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.

Claudia Schiffer

#26. The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

Brett Favre

#27. I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.

Victor Cruz

#28. I'm going to have my family after I play football.

Terrell Owens

#29. We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.

Alan Thicke

#30. I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30

Robbie Savage

#31. What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.

Michael Vick

#32. My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can't watch it together. Football's a violent anger in our family dynamic.

Ashton Kutcher

#33. Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

Goran Ivanisevic

#34. When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

Jermain Defoe

#35. I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.

Yaya Toure

#36. I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

Craig Ferguson

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

Troy Polamalu

#38. I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.

Randy Moss

#39. 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

#40. To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't judge a person's character by what they do between the lines. Judge a man by what he does off the field, what he does for his community, what he does for his family.

Richard Sherman

#41. If a footballer presents himself as a family man and goes and has sex with a prostitute, should he gag her?

Nicky Campbell

#42. I have a great family. I can call them and they don't want to talk just football They want to find out how my day went outside of football.

Ben Roethlisberger

#43. As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Football is almost like a religion here. People say their priorities are faith, family, and then football. People eat, breathe, and sleep it in the South. It's a huge deal.

Katherine Webb

#44. I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

Emmanuel Jal

#45. We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it through God's eyes. As much fun as it was to be winning, we tried not to get caught up in it. We knew that our family life and our faith walk were more important.

Tony Dungy

#46. Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.

Brett Favre

#47. I come from a football family which has really helped.

Frank Lampard

#48. Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.

Alessandro Del Piero

#49. My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.

Matt Barr

#50. I had my family before I played football.

Terrell Owens

#51. I was reminded of another very special word when I was driving into Ann Arbor this morning, and that word is homecoming. Our family's had three homecomings to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in my lifetime.

Jim Harbaugh

#52. The majority of my family is Auburn fans, and I grew up watching Auburn football, and that's always who I've cheered for.

Katherine Webb

#53. I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.

Gordon Strachan

#54. My only concern is playing. Everything else, my family looks after. In our house, everyone has a job, and my job in our house is to play football.

Ronaldinho

#55. I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough.

Tom Dunne

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

Martin Gore

#57. On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out.

Kurt Warner

#58. At 17, I already had responsibility because I took care of my family, but in the football I was young; I wasn't experienced or the captain - I was just in the team.

Pele

#59. OF COURSE MONEY TAKES WORRY OUT OF YOUR LIFE AND ENABLES YOU TO PROVIDE FOR YOUR FAMILY - BUT IF IT WAS PLAYING PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL FOR FREE OR CHOOSE ANOTHER LIVING, THEN I WOULD CHOOSE FOOTBALL EVERY TIME.

Lionel Messi

#60. When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.

Gareth Bale

#61. I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.

Mark Shriver