Football Play Sayings

#1. I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it.

Lionel Messi

#2. I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

Red Grange

#3. We would get 20 different angles and then cut them all together. That's what I called it at the time - the 'cubistic' treatment of shooting football. It was the same thing Picasso did except we did it with a football play. It's taking a single image and looking at it from multiple perspectives.

Steve Sabol

#4. Almost any football play, even an off-tackle slant by a running back, offers the balletic beauty of athletic skill and the punishing drama of physical collision.

Richard Corliss

#5. I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.

Jevon Kearse

#6. There is no way that I could have survived if I had not changed my style of play.

Willie Lanier

#7. Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland

Phil Thompson

#8. 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

#9. I just liked to play football, no matter what the position.

Bobby Bell

#10. He watched them with the passionate regret with which he saw them play football or go to dances: the activity itself did not interest, but the power to share it would have made him less apart.

Alasdair Gray

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.

Andy Murray

#14. I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.

Robert Griffin III

#15. I believe that I have a platform because God blessed me with the talent to play football. Having that talent, my job is to be responsible with it.

Benjamin Watson

#16. People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!

Sophia Bush

#17. 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

#18. Like many athletes, I played in college for the chance to play in the pros. In the years since I retired, I've come to realize that the education I got in college was for life. I will have it forever and for that I am incredibly grateful.

Pat Toomay

#19. My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'

Michael Strahan

#20. There weren't sidewalks to skateboard on and malls to hang out in. There wasn't anything to do. And I was too scrawny to play football, and so I decided I was just gonna sit at the piano, because it made more sense.

John Fullbright

#21. You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.'

Donny Osmond

#22. Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

Terry McMillan

#23. I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.

Gareth Bale

#24. I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.

Im Dong-Hyun

#25. What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change.

Tony Dungy

#26. I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

Samuel Barber

#27. You don't need a ball to play football; all you need is a strong wish! After then, you can use even a stone as a ball! For all other things you want to do, all you need is a strong wish!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. John Bond has brought in a young left-sided midfield player, who I guess will play on the left side of midfield.

Jimmy Armfield

#29. I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream.

Jamie Sives

#30. 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

#31. I'm in love with football, but I just needed to recapture that strength to train and play. So many people helped me along the way that I'm afraid to leave anyone out. Above all, though, I want to mention the help of my medical team that has been working alongside me for the past two years.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#32. I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#33. Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.

Johan Cruijff

#34. Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

Bill Bryson

#35. 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

#36. I want to do what I like and that's play football.

Royston Drenthe

#37. Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

Nick Saban

#38. If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?

Roy Keane

#39. I wouldn't let my children play football.

Peter Landesman

#40. If I could play football, I'd play football. But not women's football - real football. Or I'd just date a quarterback.

Portia Doubleday

#41. I play a lot of football, watch a lot of football, and think about football.

Jamie Blackley

#42. Progressing to where you can play a big role in football is nothing you can achieve in just two years. It will at least take five, six, well more likely seven years. A once-in-a-life-time success does not help you, constant quality is what you have to go for.

Berti Vogts

#43. I enjoy going on hikes, and I enjoy the occasional yoga. The one thing I'm good at athletically - and I don't know if I'm good at it anymore because I haven't done this in a while - I can throw a pretty good spiral in football, but I have no idea how to play.

Bridgit Mendler

#44. As a kid, I thought movies were boring. My parents would hire VHS recorders for the weekend and watch Bollywood movies. I'd get bored and go out to Stoke Newington common to play football.

Asif Kapadia

#45. 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

#46. It was easy to get wrapped up in some of the negative stuff, but obviously I chose not to. I didn't want to get in trouble and end up in prison where I can't play football. It was as simple as that.

Jermain Defoe

#47. Though the legs of a football coach are never so active on the field of play during playing time, his mind is the best or worse player on the pitch!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#48. Why can't a 'bania' play hockey or football for India? Because every time he gets a corner, he opens a shop! - Old Indian Joke

Ashutosh Garg

#49. Give me a 6 pack, half-hour of rest and lets go play them again - We can beat them.

Jack Lambert

#50. I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

Novak Djokovic

#51. Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

Wayne Rooney

#52. In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.

Adolfo Cambiaso

#53. I'd catch a punt naked, in the snow, in Buffalo, for a chance to play in the NFL.

Steve Henderson

#54. I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest - If you can't take it, you shouldn't play!

Jack Lambert

#55. I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

Anthony Doerr

#56. I love to play bid whist as much as I love football.

Emmitt Smith

#57. I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day!

Les Miles

#58. When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

Mario Balotelli

#59. I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.

Junior Seau

#60. Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.

Bryce Harper

#61. I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

Art Donovan

#62. Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.

Bud Grant

#63. Today, the Ravens answered: What is our identity? 'We are the same old team. We can play the same style of football.

Marshall Faulk

#64. I'm definitely not a football player, but I can play one for a season.

Nikki Ziering

#65. I just want to continue to play great football - that's all that matters. I don't really care about the accolades or any of that.

Justin Tuck

#66. I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

Brian Bosworth

#67. Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.

Bob Marley

#68. I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

Harmon Killebrew

#69. Knowledge relaxes me. Football is all about playing faster. You play faster when you know more.

Marshall Faulk

#70. When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.

Johan Cruijff

#71. Sometimes I do feel a little pressure, but not that much because we play different positions.

Willie Lanier

#72. You have to run the football and stop the run, no matter what level you play at, whether it's high school, college or professional ranks. I'm a firm believer in that.

Chip Kelly

#73. I wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play football, I wanted to show off. Not complicated in that sense, very natural; it just depends on how you want to show off.

Dylan Moran

#74. I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.

Keith Millard

#75. I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.

John Madden

#76. I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - just crazy. I'm looking forward to thanking all the fans for inspiring me to go out there and play my best football each and every game.

Jerry Rice

#77. I wanted to play football. It was what I did best at school and I'm pretty sporty, so that was the idea. Music was always a hobby, innit. I was more ahead with football.

Tinchy Stryder

#78. I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle.

Randy Moss

#79. Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

Eric Cantona

#80. Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.

Peter Capaldi

#81. I used to like Barbra Streisand films. It was 'Funny Girl' that really turned me on, in a sense, to acting. I remember it specifically being a rainy Saturday afternoon. I couldn't play football, so I stayed in, and I watched 'Funny Girl.'

Sean Harris

#82. I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

Barack Obama

#83. You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.

Jose Mourinho

#84. Whenever you have to come to my house and convince me to leave my home and play football, deep down in my heart I really don't want to play, but I really don't want to let you down.

Deion Sanders

#85. I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game.

Terrell Owens

#86. I give you a week, maybe two, before you're driven to bite someone."
"I don't know how to ... to bite or drink! But you could teach me."
"And what could you possibly do in return?" Lothaire waved a negligent hand. "Play football for me? Break in my jeans really well?

Kresley Cole

#87. All I have to do is play football now.

Vince Young

#88. I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

Emmanuel Jal

#89. They say I couldn't play football, I was too small. They say I couldn't play basketball, I wasn't tall. They say I couldn't play baseball at all and now everyday of my life, I ball.

Lil' Wayne

#90. [Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell

#91. I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

Jeff Mangum

#92. Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

George Orwell

#93. Villa will probably play a lot worse than this and lose.

Alan Parry

#94. I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.

Ike Barinholtz

#95. I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.

Michael Jackson

#96. Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and 'play the game,' and these are the best of training for any game of life.

Robert Baden-Powell

#97. Everybody always wanted me to be sorry, I guess, and I am. And I'm tired of it. And I want to play football and, well, if I can't I'll have to do something else.

Alex Karras

#98. I've got four brothers, so with them and all our friends we had these sports parties in the basement. We'd play basketball, mini-sticks, baseball in the backyard, football, whatever it was. We were busy 24/7.

Rob Gronkowski

#99. Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'

Jimmy Connors

#100. Once the game begins, I play to that song in my head. I run to rhythm, and that allows my mind to be free.

Marshall Faulk