Top 100 Football Time Quotes
#1. In football, time and space are the same thing.
Graham Taylor
#2. Big deal, so he scored. The last time I saw someone dance like that I had to pay her $20 and have my pants dry cleaned the next day.
Dennis Miller
#3. 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
#4. My father never did any of the things that my friends' fathers did with them. We never tossed a football around or even watched games together. He would always say, "I don't have time - maybe later," but he always had time to sit around and get drunk.
Susan Forward
#5. It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.
Khloe Kardashian
#6. When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.
Sid Luckman
#7. Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.
(in Thief of Time)
Terry Pratchett
#8. It wasn't like I ever said, 'I want to be an actor.' I was in the right place at the right time. I went to a local drama group because I found football on the weekends too cold - which is highly ironic because I've had some of the coldest experiences of my life filming 'Game of Thrones.'
Isaac Hempstead-Wright
#9. The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football - you have to keep your thoughts positive. I'm not sure I've got that mastered.
John Elway
#10. We are trying to educate players to use their spare time to train for a life after football, which comes to everybody. You can lead a lot of horses to water, but you can't make them all drink.
Gordon Taylor
#11. In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.
Vince Lombardi
#12. We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.
Darrell Royal
#13. For a long time, I was more involved in basketball, baseball and golf. My parents didn't push me into football when I was a little kid, but they coaxed me into trying it as a 10th grader.
Marc Bulger
#14. I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.
Jon Bon Jovi
#15. Thank you ... preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.
Jimmy Fallon
#16. I feel close to the rebelliousness of the youth here. Perhaps time will seperate us , but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.
Eric Cantona
#17. 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
#18. I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football.
Graham Roberts
#19. We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time.
Johan Cruijff
#20. Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.
Thierry Henry
#21. 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
#22. Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn't work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well.
Al Michaels
#23. I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.
Ronaldinho
#24. Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.
Simon Kuper
#25. Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.
Brett Favre
#26. Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show.
Zinedine Zidane
#27. Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.
Alessandro Del Piero
#28. I always suggest something fast and simple so you have more time to share with friends; and when we think of the ultimate food to serve for a football game, only one thing comes to mind - wings!
Marcus Samuelsson
#29. Since we travel a lot as a team, I spend a lot of time on a plane where I like to play 'Football Manager.' I have been a soccer fan since I was 5 years old, so to be able to manage soccer teams is a lot of fun.
Carl Hagelin
#30. 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
#31. I've been fortunate and blessed to further my career in the Arena Football League, and I've had a good time doing it.
Jeff Garcia
#32. I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.
James McAvoy
#33. I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
Mal Peet
#34. I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.
J. J. Watt
#35. If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
John Malkovich
#36. I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.
Rene Redzepi
#37. Most Barcelona fans are kids who have watched football for the first time yesterday
Didier Drogba
#38. It's very hard even for a student with good academic study habits to perform well under circumstances where they are working the equivalent of a full-time job. It's incredibly stressful, especially for football players.
Gilbert M. Gaul
#39. For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.
Michel Patini
#40. I think any football is a guy that is able to one, be able to be humble and hungry off the field, but at the same time on the football field understand what they have to get done and be a little bit ferocious.
Ndamukong Suh
#41. I work all the time; whatever I do, I do it, and I don't necessarily look at it as work. You could say the Auschwitz project was work, or the Lowy Institute is work, or Westfield is work, or the football is work. It is life.
Frank Lowy
#42. Love", I said, "is the rug they pull out from under you. Love is Lucy always lifting the football at the last second so that Charlie Brown falls on his ass. Love is something that every time you believe in it, it goes away. Love is for suckers, and I'm not going to be a sucker ever again.
Jennifer Weiner
#43. That's a yellow card for Cazoria. So the next time he's involved in Europe, he won't be.
George Hamilton
#44. The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything.
Troy Polamalu
#45. We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.
Jose Mourinho
#46. English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.
David Ginola
#47. I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.
Tony Adams
#48. I was obsessed with my dad, and my dad would refuse to go to church with us on Sundays because football was on. So I thought to myself, how could I spend more time with my dad? I started watching football with him every Sunday, and it was just something I fell in love with.
Charissa Thompson
#49. The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week.
Martin Gore
#50. I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in music and art ... I was an outcast in a lot of ways ... but everything that you get picked on for or you feel makes you weird is essentially what's going to make you sexy as an adult.
Justin Timberlake
#51. I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.
Peter Landesman
#52. Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport.
Paolo Di Canio
#53. Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is ...
Kevin Keegan
#54. I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.
Norah O'Donnell
#55. When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.
Mike Krzyzewski
#56. You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
Fernando Torres
#57. In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.
Ludivine Sagnier
#58. If you see adversity arriving at your game field, time to put on your pads and let see how well you can tackle adversity.
Kevin Abromitis
#59. The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
Aaron Rodgers
#60. I knew I loved football before I even played it. Uh, but the first time I stepped out on the field playing for the Lakeshore Redskins, I knew that I loved this game. I knew that this was something I wanted to do. And I was only 6 years old, but I loved it.
Tim Tebow
#61. 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
#62. Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time ... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#63. If they come back it's a night we'll remember for a long time. But that's a capital if.
Clive Tyldesley
#64. My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
Karisma Kapoor
#65. In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.
Alan Smith
#66. In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.
Graham Taylor
#67. The quarterback's spending so much time behind the center that he may jeopardize his right to lead a Boy Scout troop.
Dennis Miller
#68. Every player feels differently about playing football. We are all different people. I am the type who wants to win all the time. I hate to lose.
Luis Suarez
#69. Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen. There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me.
George Best
#70. I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.
Casper Van Dien
#71. Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.
Mike McCarthy
#72. I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.
Aaron Douglas
#73. You watch pro ball and those guys spend so much time with their hands on each other's rear ends, you'd think they were feeling for diamonds or something.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#74. Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.
Payne Stewart
#75. Colt was a big guy and there was a lot to see, all of it good. He'd need to walk down a football field for you to have time to get it all in.
Kristen Ashley
#76. Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.
Brett Favre
#77. The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.
Franz Beckenbauer
#78. Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.
Alan Parry
#79. Stanley was right. I never hit another home run. I struck out most of the time. But they always remembered that home run and while they still hated me, it was a better kind of hatred, like they weren't quite sure why. Football
Charles Bukowski
#80. I thought Denver and Seattle was a big game but Houston and Dallas is the kind of game that as players, we want to play in. I haven't missed playing in the National Football League, but every year there are one or two games that makes me wish I could tee it up in that game one more time.
Sterling Sharpe
#81. Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time to run back, that's the player people think is great. I say he has to go to a circus.
Johan Cruijff
#82. Back in my time, and I sound old now, it was black and white boots and that was it. Now you've got snoods, people wearing headphones when they're doing interviews, which I find disrespectful. Pink boots, green boots, you name it, even tights. They'll be wearing skirts next.
Paul Ince
#83. Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.
Paul Newman
#84. Talking of first times Stephanie, I bet your first time was really memorable for you and the captain ot the football team .. and the basketball team .. and the softball team, the track team, the chess club and the pool boy!
Chris Jericho
#85. I always say prepare to be a coach to anybody who wants to be a coach. At 24 years of age when I left engineering to become full time in football, I made sure that I was never going back to engineering.
Alex Ferguson
#86. Every time our great Country has been critically challenged either by dictators or terrorists, we as a Country have put aside our personal agendas and focused on doing what we need to do to win when threatened.
George M. Gilbert
#87. Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.
Dennis Bergkamp
#88. The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.
David Icke
#90. We live in a society that only embraces success and that is who we are. It takes a great deal of inner strength to deal with the time commitment of coaching when very little seems to be accomplished.
George M. Gilbert
#91. I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30
Robbie Savage
#92. I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.
Rupert Lowe
#93. You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.
Bum Phillips
#94. When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team ... It's death by football.
Brendan Rodgers
#95. To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it.
On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina.
Waiting for her.
Sarah Addison Allen
#96. For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies.
Vinnie Jones
#97. I've never really liked the Yanks ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.
Terry Pratchett
#98. Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted.
Timothy F. Cahill
#99. As England manager I always felt we needed an extra man in midfield to retain the ball, but that was more as an attacking ploy to help create opportunities. It came from my experience playing international football in a 4-4-2 and spending half my time chasing the ball.
Glenn Hoddle
