Top 100 Football Great Quotes
#1. I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.
Arsene Wenger
#2. I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person
Iker Casillas
#4. First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
Earl Campbell
#5. Louisiana has a heritage of great players that play their high school football within the boundaries of Louisiana.
Les Miles
#6. Arizona was the best place. I like the competition in baseball, and the football program has been great for the past five years. I think I'll be playing as a freshman in both sports, and I think I can play with them.
Terry Vaughn
#7. The great cancer facing all of us during this 'new millennium' is entitlement.
George M. Gilbert
#8. Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades.
Jimmy Johnson
#9. Life is great; football is better. Steve Sabol.
Ed Sabol
#10. I enjoyed coaching so much that I just have to stay with it. Don Coryell - I love him, and I think he was a great coach - but I hear he's going to build a house on some island. He's going to divorce himself from football, and that's a mystery to me.
Sid Gillman
#12. When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!
John Madden
#13. I don't miss the limelight, not at all. I'm just more comfortable out of it. I don't miss 'Monday Night Football.' I just don't miss it. I'm lucky. When I stopped playing, I didn't miss it. I feel blessed that it's not been a problem. I have great memories. I feel really lucky.
Don Meredith
#14. It's a group of guys that put their mind to going out and playing great football. Everybody that needed to step up, stepped up. Everybody that needed to make a play, made a play, and that's what it's all about.
Kurt Warner
#15. It's a great start, but we have a tough group: we have big teams like Denmark, Armenia and Serbia, so starting here gives us a good opportunity to fight until the end.
Lorik Cana
#16. I spent four indifferent years at Goodison, but they were great years.
Martin Hodge
#17. As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.
Karren Brady
#18. I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.
Tom Perrotta
#19. Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.
Marv Levy
#20. Soccer was the first sport that my parents put me in, and ultimately, all the parents kind of came over to my mom and were, 'We think Channing would be better at football ... We love him, he's really great, but he's kind of hurting our children.' I was just a little wild.
Channing Tatum
#21. Matt Damon is a great actor, and he's from Boston, so we've got a few things in common. I've seen him throw a football, though. He definitely needs to work on that.
Tom Brady
#22. My first two years in the CFL, all I thought of was getting back to the NFL - it was like 'I'll put my time in up here and go back.' Then I went and signed a nice contract in Calgary and was like, 'Hey, I can make a living up here, this is great football, and I'm having a blast.'
Doug Flutie
#23. I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.
Alan Shearer
#24. I've cut my teeth as a coach with some great head coaches and some great co-workers and I have been very lucky to have learned a lot of football from all of the above.
Mike Tice
#25. I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.
Steve Largent
#26. First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general.
Berti Vogts
#27. I have great confidence in Rene and high expectations for our squad to respond.
Shahid Khan
#28. After you've been to fight club, watching football on television is watching pornography when you could be having great sex.
Chuck Palahniuk
#29. I do know it's great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team aspect to it ... Good things happen, the praise is spread around; and bad things happen, usually it's not just one person's fault.
Andrew Luck
#30. What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.
Arsene Wenger
#31. On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
Zhang Xin
#32. Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings.
Eamon Dunphy
#33. I have a lot of great friends in football. The game was great to me. And I've been able to do other things in television and enjoy that, meeting those people.
Bill Parcells
#34. Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.
Paul Allen
#35. Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support in my football and in everything. They've been very close to me and we have a great relationship.
Lionel Messi
#36. For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.
Jermain Defoe
#37. If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
Ricky Williams
#38. I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
Xavi
#39. We live in a society that only embraces success and that is who we are. It takes a great deal of inner strength to deal with the time commitment of coaching when very little seems to be accomplished.
George M. Gilbert
#40. I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father.
Terry Crews
#41. Gaddafi's a great bloke. The media only show the bad things. I used to go round his house. His son's a super simple guy. All the Gaddafis were very down to earth.
Luis De Agustini
#42. As long as I feel the love of the game and my health is good, I'm going to play. I don't want to be one of these guys who stays too long or regrets leaving early. Football has been great to me.
Justin Tuck
#43. It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.
Ian Holloway
#44. Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.
Hillary Clinton
#45. Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.
Alexei Mordashov
#46. Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time to run back, that's the player people think is great. I say he has to go to a circus.
Johan Cruijff
#47. The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don't want to see this turned into some great political football
Benjamin Netanyahu
#48. I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.
Bill Simmons
#49. I live in Beverly Hills and I'm proud of it. The only things I miss are pie and mash shops and football games. I've lived in America longer than I lived in England. When I first got here, it just felt right to me. I like the open space, and the weather's great.
Steve Jones
#50. The main reason for doing it now had more to do with the players. This is a great group. This particular group has really worked hard to prepare themselves. And we have a chance to have a good football team.
LaVell Edwards
#51. Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven-a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savours of anti-climax.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#52. Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
Pele
#53. A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.
Bud Grant
#54. I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.
Channing Tatum
#56. Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.
Jay Mohr
#57. I live in Leeds, which is about 200 miles north of London, and I get to go and do all the 'Harry Potter' stuff and make great films and be part of this wonderful thing all around the world, and then I get to go home and chill out with my friends in Leeds and go watch the football and go to the pub.
Matthew Lewis
#58. Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing.
Martin Samuel
#59. I think part of what people are responding to with Lambeau Field is that it's a solid culture. There's so much committed to what hockey means and that's how we feel about football. It's just a great connection between the culture of football and the culture of hockey.
Jon Jones
#60. During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
Bart Starr
#61. 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
#62. We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff.'
Michael Morpurgo
#63. People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.
Bear Bryant
#64. 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
#65. It would be great to not have any injuries and just go out and play football and have fun ... But in life there are adversities, and it all just depends on how you overcome them.
Donovan McNabb
#66. For when the One Great Scorer comes
To mark against your name,
He writes - not that you won or lost -
But HOW you played the Game.
Alumnus Football
Grantland Rice
#67. Shevchenko is the best attacker in Europe. He has a great deal of consistency and he just keeps scoring - which in Italian football is very difficult. He is a complete player, someone who can do everything on a football field
Andriy Shevchenko
#68. 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
#69. Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?
Rush Limbaugh
#70. If we do what we do without panicking, we can accomplish great things.
Tony Dungy
#71. China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the game is concerned. Football in the future will get faster and faster.
Berti Vogts
#72. I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.
Ian Holloway
#73. I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.
Gaines Adams
#74. 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
#75. I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.
Mohamed Al-Fayed
#76. 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
#77. The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.
Wim Crouwel
#78. I identified myself through football so when Jason Peter the football player no longer existed, Jason Peter the person was gone as well. Such a huge part of my struggle in life was finding a purpose, trying to find something else that I could be great at.
Jason Peter
#79. Now let me say that Matt Busby was a great manager and Manchester United wouldn't be where they are without him. He was a god at the club, but he wasn't a god to me. Football is like that sometimes.
Johnny Giles
#80. Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is ...
Kevin Keegan
#81. I'm from a council estate myself, and the biggest release we had as kids was football. That's where all the great players learn their trade - as kids having a kickabout.
Colin Cooper
#82. when a football player steps on a field, he should do it all. I realize a great running back doesn't like to play defense, but life isn't based on what you like. If everyone did what he liked to do, we'd be in real trouble.
Brian Curtis
#84. Great news for Pres Obama. He watched football all weekend and tomorrow he will receive the Heisman trophy. Next week he's going to watch NASCAR. Move over, Jimmie Johnson!
Michael Waltrip
#85. We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.
Jose Mourinho
#86. Reading just had a great five-man move that involved everyone.
Phil Thompson
#87. I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.
Michael Vick
#88. 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
#89. When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
Yaya Toure
#90. Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?
Froma Harrop
#91. Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow.
Djibril Cisse
#92. They say football is America's greatest game, but it's not. The greatest game in America is called opportunity. Football is merely a great expression of it.
Joe Kapp
#93. All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.
Raul Lopez
#94. You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame. It's hard. There are no rooty-toot classes for athletes in South Bend.
Justin Tuck
#95. That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on.
John Lambie
#96. College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
Noel Gallagher
#97. Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.
Simon Barnes
#98. Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.
Steve Sabol
#99. When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in a play, where there is a great star. If the star is not well, the whole cast suffers.
Pele
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