Football Is Quotes

#1. The game of football really is more cerebral than most people think. To be successful, it takes more than just strength and speed; it takes versatility, intelligence, and ability to think quickly and calmly, to adapt to every situation.

Ray Rice

#2. The things that are happening to me are unbelievable. I'm actually busier right now than when I played football. This is almost like I'm coming back out of retirement. It will be fun to see myself in the game.

Jerry Rice

#3. 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

#4. Football is all I know.

Brian McDermott

#5. 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

#6. As far as I'm concerned, this guy should never play football again. The answer you normally get after a tackle like that is 'he is not the type of guy who does that.' It's like a guy who kills one time in his life - it's enough. You have a dead person. This tackle is absolutely horrendous.

Arsene Wenger

#7. What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.

Steve Spurrier

#8. Football is like life and I know life.

Rush Limbaugh

#9. Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ.

Luiz Felipe Scolari

#10. Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are
retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

Edward Abbey

#11. Is this college football's version of Arena Football? These guys need to grow some hair on their peaches.

Gary Danielson

#12. Football is what you do, but it's not who you are. It's a big part of who you are. Part of who you are is you're a football player. It's your profession. It's a game you love to play. It's a game I love to play.

Andrew Luck

#13. The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.

Joe Namath

#14. My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.

Jacob Latimore

#15. Football is like chess, only without the dice.

Lukas Podolski

#16. This is the outer surface of the brain where much of our thinking is done. Unfolded, this surface layer would cover the area of a football field

James Tagg

#17. If studies come out and show that playing football is detrimental to your health for the long term, even for the short term, I think that's up to the players then to make the decision about whether they're going to play or not play.

Steve Largent

#18. Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy.

Rod Liddle

#19. In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

Eric Cantona

#20. The way I see it, everyone's a Geek of some sort. Football, films, music - it doesn't matter what the interest is; if you're fascinated by it, then you're a Geek. Simple as that.

Andy Robb

#21. To be efficient with the football in practice and on the game field obviously is the most important thing, but be efficient with the football, make smart decisions, be great on third downs, be great in the red zone, when the game's on the line in the fourth quarter - that's what I love.

Russell Wilson

#22. I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'

Pele

#23. Football is what I love, and I know I can do it, too.

Joey Harrington

#24. It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad.

Zinedine Zidane

#25. Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

Jim Harbaugh

#26. In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.

Cam Newton

#27. I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

Ricky Williams

#28. A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours - one reason the globe, if looked at from a certain height, is a cluster of lights surrounded by enormous patches of dark.

Pico Iyer

#29. I am from a city (Glasgow) that is not unlike Liverpool. I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans. It is a fantastic opportunity, something you dream about. I said 'yes' right away as it is such a big club.

David Moyes

#30. I don't actually go to a lot of games because I think football on TV is better. Even though I'm pretty busy, I watch 90 percent of Ohio State's games.

John Legend

#31. 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

#32. I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

Pele

#33. The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.

Martin Samuel

#34. When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

Lev Yilmaz

#35. If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they'll have to wait until I'm out of a job.

Glenn Hoddle

#36. Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

Vicente Del Bosque

#37. I love the atmosphere football brings; I love being around my teammates; I love the struggle in football. I love the fact that it is a part of my life. I don't look at it as any more important or less important as any other part of my life.

Troy Polamalu

#38. Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.

Graham Roberts

#39. The first thing about Houston is it's an organization run from a different perspective. In Cincy, the team lives off money it earns from football. Houston's owner has other business interests, and he controls the money.

Johnathan Joseph

#40. Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

Michael Mandelbaum

#41. The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.

Robert Carlyle

#42. To be a Ranger is to sense the sacred trust of upholding all that such a name means in this shrine of football. They must be true in their conception of what the Ibrox tradition seeks from them. No true Ranger has ever failed in the tradition set him.

Bill Struth

#43. Today, professional football is about profit and making money. But it's not about how much money you spend, it's about how wisely you spend it.

John Riggins

#44. Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.

Orhan Pamuk

#45. Sure, football is a silly game. But have you seen what else is on television?

Pliny The Elder

#46. There's a lot of dangerous sports. You know, my opinion, football is the most dangerous sport there is. After that I'll give it to probably boxing. Then there's some other extreme sports out there, motocross where you're really risking your neck every time you go out there and do it.

Jon Jones

#47. As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Football is almost like a religion here. People say their priorities are faith, family, and then football. People eat, breathe, and sleep it in the South. It's a huge deal.

Katherine Webb

#48. My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.

Gary Kemp

#49. Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends

Zinedine Zidane

#50. If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.

Graham Taylor

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

Jerry O'Connell

#57. When speaking to young people, I tell them that it is important to make sure that your mind is right, so you will have something to fall back on.

Archie Griffin

#58. There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.

Terrell Davis

#59. I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.

Pete Rozelle

#60. College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night.

Rick Reilly

#61. I am a fascist, not a racist. I give the straight arm salute because it is a salute from a 'camerata' to 'camerati'. The salute is aimed at my people. With the straight arm I don't want to incite violence and certainly not racial hatred.

Paolo Di Canio

#62. You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

Woody Hayes

#63. Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

Arnold J. Mandell

#64. As time goes on you're getting more knowledge of your playbook and football, and you just pick it up a lot easier. Lining up everywhere is just second nature to me now.

Rob Gronkowski

#65. The problem with winter sports is that
follow me closely here
they generally take place in winter.

Dave Barry

#66. My new tattoo is Jesus being carried by three cherubs. Obviously the cherubs are my boys. At some point they are going to need to look after me. That's what they're doing in the picture. It means a lot.

David Beckham

#67. In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.

Xavi

#68. Football is the No. 1 sport in America.

Michael Ovitz

#69. Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Hunter S. Thompson

#70. I hated school ... I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.

Trent Reznor

#71. In football two days is a long time and a week is a very long time.

Steve McClaren

#72. 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

#73. Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

Martin Jacques

#74. There is always scope for football to be more charitable but a lot happens already. Personally I have always been passionate about charity.

David Beckham

#75. Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.

Gordon Strachan

#76. What's kind of happening is the conflict over football might be a class conflict where there is a percentage of people who have no relationship to physicality and a percentage of the populace who still does.

Chuck Klosterman

#77. Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.

Steve Sabol

#78. Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books.

Scott Sigler

#79. Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

Paul Brown

#80. It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

Alisher Usmanov

#81. You're watching your kids playing football, and you're not present. It's like the worst ... it's horrible. I despise myself for it. I think it's a particularly male thing. Being present and in the moment with your kids is something a lot of men struggle with.

Andy Serkis

#82. Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

Orhan Pamuk

#83. He is the man who has been brought on to replace Pavel Nedved. The irreplaceable Pavel Nedved.

Clive Tyldesley

#84. For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.

Michel Patini

#85. Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.

Fernando Torres

#86. The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

Shaun Alexander

#87. A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.

Tom Landry

#88. Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

George Carlin

#89. Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Ambrose Bierce

#90. Football is unconditional love.

Tom Brady

#91. Ramires is involved in everything he does.

Graeme Le Saux

#92. It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'

Matt Stone

#93. Right now Von Miller is the best pass rusher in the world. He looks exactly like Derrick Thomas did in his heyday. He can absolutely destroy a football game.

Jon Gruden

#94. For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

Eamon De Valera

#95. If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.

Neil Warnock

#96. I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#97. Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?

Pete Gill

#98. This group right here is one of the most underrated groups in football. We don't talk enough about this group. Very smart, they don't leave the field, they play every single down, and they can cover backs and tight ends out of the backfield. This group is special.

Willie McGinest

#99. 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

#100. David James is a cretin.

Paolo Di Canio