Football Matches Quotes

#1. [Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.

John Sutherland

#2. I'm not a person who goes into a deep depression after a defeat. I try to remain reasonably upbeat. I'm realistic enough to know that results of football matches are often unpredictable and, when all is said and done, things don't always work out as one would wish!

Kevin Keegan

#3. I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry.

Jose Carreras

#4. I'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was twelve years old I wrote reports on local football matches for the newspapers.

Colum McCann

#5. I used to go play football matches in the morning, and I'd go straight from me football game to a dance competition.

Tristan MacManus

#6. Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind

Roy Keane

#7. Don't let jealously override your actions, that's like looking at a row of domino's and they've all been flicked over, their is no journey with jealousy.

Paul Isaacs

#8. If you are not ready to take a risk ten you are not ready for success

Sunday Adelaja

#9. The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.

Gary Lineker

#10. As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

William Monahan

#11. My mom is a big sports fans. Basketball, football, baseball, whatever. She calls into sports radio shows and gets into shouting matches, that's how intense she is about it.

Chris Hardwick

#12. We become leaders when we accept the responsibility to protect those in our care.

Simon Sinek

#13. I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

Ben Affleck

#14. My parents weren't very sporty, and football wasn't part of my everyday life. I was never a massive football fan either, but, like everyone else, I used to watch matches on TV.

Stanislas Wawrinka

#15. When Arthur had been a boy at school, long before the Earth had been demolished, he had used to play football. He had not been at all good at it, and his particular speciality had been scoring own goals in important matches.

Douglas Adams

#16. [On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial and so profound, that any attempt to present it as a unified, consistent whole, to enclose it within a rigid frame, inevitably tempts one to cheat or to falsify.

Iris Origo

#17. People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what?

Roy Keane

#18. For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

Joe Greene

#19. Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.

Jose Mourinho

#20. I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

Dalai Lama

#21. It has to get ugly before it gets pretty!

Nicholas Sparks

#22. When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that shared desire is out there in the world - as obvious as neon, saying: I want you, I want you, I want you.

William Boyd

#23. Kessen groaned, then silently wondered if she should download the e-reader application for her phone she could pretend to be texting but be reading instead. It might look odd for her to be staring at her phone for long periods of time.

Rachel Van Dyken

#24. You shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: you must be proud of your foes. Thus have I already taught.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#25. The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#26. I lost count of the number of referees who came to me both at Derby and Forest and said, 'I'd just like to express my thanks. I love matches involving your team. We never have any trouble with them.

Brian Howard Clough

#27. I try to think about me, as an audience member, and it [inspiration for movies] comes from there.

Alexandre Aja

#28. Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.

Adrian Bell

#29. Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.

Bill Shankly

#30. Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.

David Pleat

#31. Four wins in four matches. It could not be better ... the world is fantastic.

Jose Mourinho

#32. The U.S. have printed money; they intend to tax the rich in order to avoid the fiscal cliff. These are things that sees anyone who dares to propose them in Greece and Europe labeled an extremist, when at the same time, it's what Obama does.

Alexis Tsipras