Football Defender Quotes

#1. False enthusiasm does not come easily to six-year-olds ... although, sad to say, it's a skill most of us learn fairly rapidly.

Stephen King

#2. In Delhi, politicians and intellectuals privately bemoaned the "irrationality" of the uneducated Indian masses, but when the government itself provided false answers to its citizens' urgent concerns, rumor and conspiracy took wing. Sometimes, the conspiracies became a consolation for loss.

Katherine Boo

#3. He isn't the best, neither am I. But we are the best version of ourselves with each other. And that's pretty close to Perfection.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#4. I stood there, 220 pounds of ex-football player, ex-public defender, ex-a-lot-of-things, leaning against the faded walnut rail of the witness stand, home to a million sweaty palms. "To Speak for the Dead" (The Jake Lassiter Series)

Paul Levine

#5. I've played with some very famous bandits in my time on the celebrity golf circuit.

Jasper Carrott

#6. In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.

Chip Conley

#7. Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Philip Emeagwali

#8. This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that time to grow here naturally. We have no aristocracy but of virtue and talent, which is the only true aristocracy, and is the old and true meaning of the term. (Hear, hear.

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

#9. We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

Ronald Reagan

#10. He's a wizard with his feet and is blessed with a gift for scoring goals. His best quality is his speed while the ball is at his feet. He may be the fastest man ever to lace up a football boot. No defender in the world can keep up with him.

Lilian Thuram

#11. He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.

Clive Tyldesley

#12. I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

Kelli O'Hara

#13. I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.

Vince Staples

#14. I read somewhere that dedications are like coded love letters,
but I always seem to lay us out bare.

Sorry for the poems.

Unknown

#15. In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

Johan Cruijff

#16. If you look at the whole package, with everything Henry has, I don't think you can find that anywhere else. You give him the ball in the right place and his acceleration will take him past any defender in the world.

Dennis Bergkamp

#17. In the circle of successful living, prayer is the hub that holds the wheel together. Without our contact with God we are nothing. With it, we are 'a little lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor.

Conrad Hilton

#18. I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

Jose Mourinho

#19. You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

Criss Jami

#20. Kenny wasn't the quickest of movers but he was 20 yards quicker than anybody else with his football brain and he would be in position before any defender knew what was happening. I've always said the best signing that Liverpool ever made was Kenny Dalglish.

Ronnie Moran

#21. But weddings tend to resurrect old issues, old emotions; new ideas, new possibilities.

Lisa Berne

#22. A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.

Kevin Keegan

#23. Somewhere on earth, there was always a book with an answer in it, and the best way to find that answer was to read every book you could get your hands on.

Karin Slaughter

#24. Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

Victor Hugo

#25. That's not the type of header you want to see your defender make, with his hand.

Ron Atkinson