Football Career Quotes

#1. I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy.

Bob Lilly

#2. Pat Tillman (for abandoning an incredibly promising football career to give his life for his country).

Peter Boghossian

#3. I had no plans once I finished my football career, which was a problem, so I had to go looking for work. Television was the one area that it was easier to get a job than anywhere else.

Alan Hansen

#4. Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

Jack Youngblood

#5. Al Toon, who had his football career cut short because of multiple concussions, hopes his son follows in his footsteps.

Dave Pasch

#6. I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.

Ruud Gullit

#7. There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

Ryan Giggs

#8. I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.

Barry Larkin

#9. The biggest regret of my whole football career was leaving White Hart Lane in 1970 ... my interest in football weakened after that. I was heartbroken

Jimmy Greaves

#10. Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.

Kenny Cunningham

#11. I think I'm lucky in life and not just in football. I was very fortunate to play for a great organization and a great team that was really good near the end of my career.

John Elway

#12. I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football, and I have 20/20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.

Jay Leno

#13. Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.

Robert Griffin III

#14. I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.

Alan Hansen

#15. Jessica Simpson attended boyfriend Tony Romo's football game. The Cowboys quarterback had the worst game of his career. It's a bad year for the name Simpson. Even O. J. is pissed - he feels like they're making his name look bad.

Chelsea Handler

#16. It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.

Sam Hunt

#17. It was the proudest moment of my career to lead my team out at the home of English football. I never, ever dreamt that would happen!

Casey Stoney

#18. I wish I'd played my whole career in flag football.

Archie Manning

#19. If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

William Petersen

#20. I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in the zone.

Lawrence Taylor

#21. If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be ... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

Tim Tebow

#22. Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

Dennis Bergkamp

#23. Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Football is something I was made for. I gave the game all I could for as long as I could. I guess my only regret was that my career was too short.

Dick Butkus

#24. I'm not satisfied. I'm still enjoying this. I still feel like I'm in the best part of my career and I can play at a high level. This is what I love to do: playing football and winning games.

Eli Manning

#25. Horses will never be my career. It's just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that.

Michael Owen

#26. 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

#27. He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.

David Pleat

#28. I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

Michel Patini

#29. It took a while to find a passion for another career that was as strong as the passion that I had for football. Once I found it in acting, it was simple. Use the tools you were given from playing football and apply it to your new passion. I have done that through acting, producing and writing.

Maurice Hall

#30. Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I added five years to his career, and I just think we complimented each other very well and were able to do some amazing things out on the football field.

Jerry Rice

#31. I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

Novak Djokovic

#32. 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

#33. I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

Barry Larkin

#34. For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human being with me. Talent isn't everything. You can have it from the cradle, but it is necessary to learn the trade to be the best.

Cristiano Ronaldo

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

Bobby Layne

#36. I don't judge my self-worth as a football player. Football is something I love. It's a fun career deal, but it's not what I want to do with my life, because I see football as a game.

Tim Tebow

#37. A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.

Michel Patini

#38. I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.

Darren Flutie

#39. I've been fortunate and blessed to further my career in the Arena Football League, and I've had a good time doing it.

Jeff Garcia

#40. I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.

J. J. Watt

#41. I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.

Rene Redzepi

#42. What happened in the United changing room has happened to me 50 times in my career. I have kicked bottles of mineral water, bags and shoes but I never hit a player. It's a question of technique, and the Scots must have a better technique.

Marcello Lippi

#43. When you think of Peyton Manning, you think 'ambassador.' The game has grown exponentially during his career because of him and what he means to our game, not only as a football player but as a humanitarian.

Larry Fitzgerald

#44. The whole object of the players' association is to try and make sure that any individual is able to capitalise on his ability, particularly in football, which is a very short career.

Gordon Taylor

#45. I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for.

David Beckham