Top 100 Football Is Quotes
#1. Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
Johan Cruyff
#2. Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young or old, players or fans, rich or poor, the game makes everyone equal, stirs the imagination, makes people happy and makes them sad
Franz Beckenbauer
#3. Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.
Bob Ufer
#5. 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
#6. Football is a team game. So is life.
Joe Namath
#7. Fantasy football is actually an amazing American pastime, because it takes the ultimate team sport, NFL and football, and turns it into the quest for individual achievement.
Jeff Schaffer
#8. You can't live on last year, you can't live on the year before. I can't bring in my 13 Pro Bowls in the locker room and say, look at me. No. That is gone. That is the best thing about the game of football is that everybody starts over.
Junior Seau
#9. When cars honk and hoot and drunks squeeze out of car windows and scream, you can be sure that football is in the air.
Craig Brown
#10. Thursday night football is here to stay. So we're looking at ways to make it safer. Now they're playing division games, so you limit travel. Now the question is, should you play Sunday night before a Thursday night?
John Madden
#11. A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.
Pele
#12. Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.
Thomas Boswell
#14. Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.
Luke Salisbury
#15. English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
Yaya Toure
#16. 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
#17. Football is in my blood. For me the bubbles will never fade and die
John Lyall
#18. Football is a contact sport and there's a lot that goes into it. But I have committed myself for a long time to doing it, and because I love doing it so much I want to make that commitment.
Tom Brady
#19. Football is my life. There is no question about that.
Chad Ochocinco
#20. They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.
Andre Caldwell
#21. Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Vince Lombardi
#22. Even if you are having a nightmare day during which nothing will go right, never cease looking for the ball. In the end everything will come right, for football is a game that rewards those who show courage.
Duncan Edwards
#23. Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.
Johan Cruijff
#24. The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.
Woody Hayes
#25. College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.
H.L. Mencken
#26. Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
Woody Hayes
#27. Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
George Will
#28. Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.
Vince Lombardi
#29. I don't think the world of football is so serious. It's important to have distance about things and about yourself. If we believe we are kings or gods, we become crazy. We all know it's a game and we all enjoy it together.
Eric Cantona
#30. Simply put, success in LSU football is essential for the success of Louisiana State University.
Mark Emmert
#31. English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.
Kevin Keegan
#32. Football is American; why are the Romans numering our bowls?!
Stephen Colbert
#33. Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.'
Delia Smith
#34. Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner.
Johan Cruijff
#35. Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.
Tony Dungy
#36. The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.
Woody Hayes
#37. Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.
Pope John Paul II
#38. Life is great; football is better. Steve Sabol.
Ed Sabol
#39. Earning my college degree. It was a promise I made to my parents. I understand that football is only a certain time in my life, and my degree will help me sustain my life well past football. I was so proud of that, and the amount of work I put into it.
Marcus Mariota
#40. Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.
Chris Spielman
#41. Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.
Tony Gonzalez
#42. 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
#43. Honestly, like, American football is not that big over in the U.K., so we hadn't really heard of Drew Brees before. I did know that he was, like, a massive football player. He's a massive star, so I was still a little bit anxious and nervous to meet him.
Zayn Malik
#44. Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.
Michael Wilbon
#45. Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
J.R. Moehringer
#46. The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.
Terry Pratchett
#48. To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys.
Melissa McCarthy
#49. The whole experience ... I have been just stunned. It has helped so much. I can't believe that in this sport that has no so-called heart, it's really so full of heart. That's the truth; Football is full of heart.
Devon Still
#50. You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.
Craig Johnston
#51. For me pressure is bird flu. I'm serious. I'm feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It's not fun and I'm more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I'll have to buy a mask.
Jose Mourinho
#52. Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.
Brian Bosworth
#53. Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.
Larry Fitzgerald
#54. Italians have a very closed life. Football is all their life is.
Gianfranco Zola
#55. Sometimes I dream to be alone and that nobody would talk to me. But I understand that football is really important and that everybody watches it. When you're famous, you have to do photos or autographs, especially for the kids.
Mario Balotelli
#56. International football is the continuation of war by other means.
George Orwell
#57. Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
Vince Lombardi
#58. Football is for the fans. It can be the greatest game in the world but if there are no people to watch it, it becomes nothing. The fans are the lifeblood of the game.
Jock Stein
#59. Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.
Troy Polamalu
#60. Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.
Ndamukong Suh
#61. Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
Jimmy Breslin
#62. Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
Oscar Wilde
#63. Best scene in college football is at LSU on a Saturday night.
Beano Cook
#64. Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
Jose Mourinho
#65. Football is easy when things are going well, but when its not, it becomes the biggest test.
Ryan Giggs
#66. Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football.
Diego Maradona
#67. Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
Bjork
#68. But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life ... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.
Brett Favre
#69. The thing I like most about football is it's a meritocracy.
Andrew Luck
#70. My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.
David Beckham
#71. Well, yes, but it's not about the football."
"You're saying that football is not about football?"
"It's the sharing," she said. "It's being part of the crowd. It's chanting together. It's all of it. the whole thing.
Terry Pratchett
#73. You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a manager does well, they're applauded, when they don't do well, they get the sack. Football is a tough world. Those who watch enjoy it - for everybody else, there are a lot of challenges.
Vincent Tan
#74. Football is an absolutely idiotic pastime by any rational standards. You're running into other people as hard as you can, you get frequent muscle strains and ligament tears, and the protective padding really doesn't do all that much to absorb the blunt trauma.
Chris Kluwe
#75. I love football. My weekends are booked. Saturday college games and Sunday NFL and 'Monday Night Football.' Booked! Football is first, then basketball and then everything else.
Jordin Sparks
#76. If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me.
Bill Walsh
#77. Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows may cause the players degenerative brain disease.
George Will
#78. In order to play some sports there's quite a big cost implication, whereas football is relatively cheap. All you need is a ball and a couple of jumpers to practise.
Hope Powell
#79. I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.
Adrian Peterson
#80. Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.
Johan Cruyff
#81. Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.
Wayne Rooney
#83. I think the best place to work in football is England.
Jose Mourinho
#84. In England, football is important for everybody.
Arsene Wenger
#85. The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence.
Chuck Klosterman
#86. Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.
Mary McGrory
#87. The food and drink that goes along with football is one of the best things: hamburgers, hotdogs, chips and dips. At the stadium I would probably get nachos, but when I'm at home we order pizza a lot.
Marisa Miller
#88. Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game.
Johan Cruijff
#89. The difference with football is you're out on the pitch, you feel as though you can do something about it, or score a goal. But when that horse goes down to post as an owner you have no involvement whatsoever. It's a lonely old place in the stand. It's just down to man and beast.
Michael Owen
#90. There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.
Eduardo Galeano
#91. The beauty of Cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath.
Terry Butcher
#92. Success in football is impossible without a good school.
Sergey Galitsky
#93. The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.
Steve Sabol
#94. Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting
Vince Lombardi
#95. German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character.
Franz Beckenbauer
#96. The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team
Barry Sanders
#97. Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.
Gale Sayers
#98. Football is not played with strong arms and fast feet, it's played with heart. Grow your heart and your arms and feet will follow ... You play long enough and you might find yourself in a place where your arms and feet fail you ... That's when you find out what's in your heart.
Charles Martin
#99. Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.
Nick Hornby
#100. Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.
Johan Cruijff
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