Football Hope Quotes

#1. From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

Walter Smith

#2. In football, side netting can sometimes look like a real goal and it can make spectators jubilate for a moment, and then ponder! So is life!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#3. They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

Joe Paterno

#4. All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was.

Lawrence Taylor

#5. Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let's say admired, as a football star.

Sepp Blatter

#6. There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose ... There has been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.

Theodore Hesburgh

#7. I just hope he doesn't frighten the players 'cos they're frigtened enough right now.

Roy Keane

#8. I've often told people that the greatness of this football program will emerge when The Streak ends. I hope you will all live up to that. It's all numbers. It's nothing. It's not what we're about. It's not what this school represents." -Coach Frank Allocco

Neil Hayes

#9. There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.

Alan Sugar

#10. If you feel as if your legs have been cut from underneath you, get back up. If a door closes, don't spend time staring at it. Be at peace and look for the open one. It'll be there. Then, walk through it into the next phase of your life.

Jake Byrne

#11. Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

Robert Orben

#12. I hope we can get to a point where women players are being paid properly all around the world so the only thing they have to worry about is playing football and playing football alone.

Abby Wambach

#13. With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.

Anne Campbell

#14. This is truly a rags to riches story which doesn't happen often, but it does happen. Hope is offered to those who face similar challenges that in this great Country dreams can be realized when work ethic and passion lead the way.

George M. Gilbert

#15. We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this.

Lorik Cana

#16. Football has very direct and strong connections to New Orleans. The game of football has served as a positive beacon in our city. It has given our citizens hope in tough, trying times.

Tom Benson

#17. There's no fast track, no easy track, especially from where I came from. You try to take the most of it and learn from it and hope others learn from it. That's what it is about.

Marshall Faulk

#18. Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.

Ryan McPartlin

#19. I hope people see us not just as a football player, but also as human beings, we are not machines!

Marco Reus

#20. Hope? The word seemed to bang from wall to wall. Hope? No, I don't think there's any hope. We're too empty here ... She touched her heart. This isn't a country at all, it's a collection of football players and Eagle Scouts. Cowards. We think we're happy. We're not. We're doomed.

James Baldwin

#21. What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.

Sepp Blatter

#22. It's none of our business, the sexual preference of people. So, I hope if someone's thinking about it, that if they do come out as gay and are a professional football player, and it makes them happy, and it makes their life easier, then I think they should do it.

Andrew Luck

#23. Though I hope to have a few more seasons still in senior football, I am studying to be a physiotherapist and masseur when my playing days are over. We married men have to look to the future, you know.

Bob Paisley

#24. Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

Samuel Eto'o

#25. We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.

Lou Holtz

#26. I hope I have a lot more football left.

Tom Brady

#27. I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

Jack Kemp

#28. If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game ... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

Stanley Rous

#29. I can never hope to find words to express my feelings at becoming a member of the Celtic Football Club.

Sean Fallon

#30. I hope to get out before they start football next year.

Bear Bryant

#31. I was on the computer the other day and typed my name into Google. Everything on there was bad. I hope in a few years there might be something there about me playing football.

Jake Friend

#32. I tried to talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged I hope the same number of people turn up to protect me. There were six police, four stewards and even a UN peace observer out there.

Gordon Strachan

#33. Football gives the African people hope, a true motivation for their life.

Marcel Desailly

#34. The club survived though and became a symbol of hope and pride for over half a million refugees scattered across Azerbaijan, many of whom still live in temporary settlements within a few kilometers of the frontline.

Arthur Huizinga