Foot Ball Quotes

#1. Most lay-ups and two foot jump shots around the goal are missed by not putting the ball up high enough on the backboard

Rick Majerus

#2. You don't need to play every ball on back foot. Some balls in life deserve to be played on front foot. Every ball needs good judgement to extend the limit.

Amit Ray

#3. I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.

Dennis Rodman

#4. I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball.

Annie Dillard

#5. And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.

Lesley Gore

#6. The summer we spent on the beach was all the sex education anyone needed.

Jettie Woodruff

#7. Mr. Pappadakis smells like Just for Men peroxide dye and eucalyptus foot unguents. He has a face like a catcher's mitt. The whole thing puckers inward, drooping with the memory of some dropped fly ball.

Karen Russell

#8. And he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.

Ian Darke

#9. I don't take myself seriously all the time; I have to do quirky things, such as helping football teams, moving the ball away from McAllister's foot, getting into The Sun and The Star - because, you know, I like sensationalism, it's a part of what I do.

Uri Geller

#10. If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.

Mother Teresa

#11. All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.

Mikhail Bakunin

#12. For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. I played on the boy's teams until I was 12. I just loved it and had a passion for it. You couldn't get a soccer ball away from my foot.

Lauren Holiday

#14. He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.

George Best

#15. The ball was literally glued to the back of his foot - into the back of the net.

Alan Parry

#16. College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.

Oscar Robertson

#17. Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

Mike Piazza

#18. I've always been one to prefer dimbling down country lanes on me own cod mumbling to myself in some kind of mad ecstasy with a strange feeling of happiness in my step.

Andy Gibbons

#19. When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew immediately what it was. That was a home run ball hit off me in 1933 by Jimmie Foxx.

Lefty Gomez

#20. My leg was made for kicking things. Doesn't matter the circumstance, style or formation. It's all about putting your foot on the right spot of the ball and letting your leg velocity do the rest.

Pat McAfee

#21. I enjoy eating and have no issues with eating. I am not going to be one of those girls who have to watch her weight.

Moon Bloodgood

#22. Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.

Brenda Blethyn

#23. We believe ... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Alfred Jarry

#24. Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with advanced foot moving forward first and then the back foot in a boxer's type shuffling of the feet.

Tex Winter

#25. And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.

Eduardo Galeano

#26. Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.

Johan Cruijff

#27. Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?

John Gay

#28. Retrospect, and they show a love of design that was, on occasion, a bit too exuberant. But

Walter Isaacson

#29. Genius is both the sail and the wind; that's why he continues his journey without stopping!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#30. Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

Joe Paterno

#31. You care for empresses and queens?" I asked him.
"No. For tragic heroines."
"Why them?"
"Suffering and courageous women who deserve their own immortality.

Ronald Frame

#32. I give him (Frank Howard during April 28, 1968 two-hitter) shoulder, back, foot and the ball last," and Frank Howard commented, "He threw everything at me but the ball.

Luis Tiant