Good Football Quotes

#1. How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we have a chance to have a good football team. I don't have any health problems. I don't know how any of the stuff gets started ... My health is very good.

LaVell Edwards

#2. Life is good. Football is better.

Steve Sabol

#3. Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football.

John Madden

#4. A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.

Bud Grant

#5. I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

Bear Bryant

#6. I like to watch good football so I like to watch good players. I like Cristiano Ronaldo, Andres Iniesta, Xavi and Wayne Rooney.

Neymar

#7. Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.

Mal Peet

#8. I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.

Ndamukong Suh

#9. Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.

Dennis Bergkamp

#10. They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

Joe Paterno

#11. I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.

Steve Largent

#12. Just because I'm undersized and under-this and under-that, I've still been a good football player since I was little.

Wes Welker

#13. A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

Vince Flynn

#14. We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football team right now.

Bruce Coslet

#15. We're not going to apologize for acting like a good football team.

Joe Flacco

#16. The crowds at West Ham haven't been rewarded by results, but they keep turning up because of the good football they see. Other clubs will suffer from the old bugbear that results count more than anything. This has been the ruination of English soccer.

Ron Greenwood

#17. I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio.

Frank Lampard

#18. I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead, 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle, and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.

Eduardo Galeano

#19. So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.

Jose Mourinho

#20. The main reason for doing it now had more to do with the players. This is a great group. This particular group has really worked hard to prepare themselves. And we have a chance to have a good football team.

LaVell Edwards

#21. I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.

Bill Parcells

#22. The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.

Frank Leahy

#23. The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.

Alan Smith

#24. When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.

Eamon

#25. The reality is we are 0-3. The reality is that we can still be a very good football team. We need to show that on Monday night.

Aaron Kampman

#26. People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.

Reggie White

#27. I was not a very good football player when I started out.

Lynn Swann

#28. 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

#29. Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

Roger Milla

#30. Javier Chevanton don't speak the language too good.

Kevin Bond

#31. 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

#32. Not just cricket, we are doing clothing for football, hockey etc. It's basic stuff, but good designing is what I am looking to do.

Harbhajan Singh

#33. I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

Bum Phillips

#34. The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very important for me to get off to a good start. By the same token, I feel a responsibility to handle the media and those sort of things.

Doug Flutie

#35. 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

#36. When I was a teenager, I was so dumb my mamma knocked me off the porch with a broom. You wish you had so good a mamma.

Deacon Jones

#37. I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

Ryan Giggs

#38. Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.

Bobby Robson

#39. Look, girls and boys are different. Girls like to be touched twenty times a day in a nonsexual way to feel good about themselves - that is why I tickle you and link arms with you - but boys think about sex, snogging and football, and also snogging whilst playing football. Simple.

Louise Rennison

#40. Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings.

Ian Holloway

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

Paul Bryant

#44. 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

#45. A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are.

Joe Don Looney

#46. I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

Max Walker

#47. When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line.

Joe Greene

#48. I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.'

Walt Garrison

#49. Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.

Idris Elba

#50. I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.

Robert Griffin III

#51. Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players.

Marv Levy

#52. And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible.

Jonah Goldberg

#53. You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.

David Pleat

#54. A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.

Sam Hunt

#55. If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something.

Ryan Leaf

#56. Football is one of those games that definitely relates to life in a lot of ways. Everything can be going good, and just like that, you have a turnover. Things are going south, you're going the opposite direction. How are you going to recover from it? That's the beauty in this game.

Torrey Smith

#57. 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

#58. If you can get through the first round you have a good chance of getting into the next one.

Nigel Worthington

#59. I don't feel like I'm getting older. I think it's the way I've looked after myself. I take my football seriously. I love scoring goals and I get a good feeling from it, so I'll do whatever it takes to be fit and feel good in games.

Jermain Defoe

#60. I'm not trying to be the highest-paid receiver in the National Football League. I've never received that, and that's not ever going to happen. So I'm fine with what I have, I make good money, and I'm happy about it.

Donald Driver

#61. Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.

Bobby Charlton

#62. People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.

Bear Bryant

#63. We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that ... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?'

Otto Rehhagel

#64. 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

#65. So it would be a good thing for Chinese parents to instill enthusiasm among their kids for football. It's a great game, not only regarding the emotions behind it, but it's also a game for young people to gain experience of working in a bigger group and work to achieve goals.

Berti Vogts

#66. Winning means everything ... You show me a good loser and I'll show a loser.

George Steinbrenner

#67. I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

Pat McAfee

#68. Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.

Geoff Mulgan

#69. There's something amazing about tea. It's good before a meal, after a meal, when drunk, when taking drugs, while playing football and after being called a poof in the street.

Noel Fielding

#70. We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.

David Moyes

#71. I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

Michel Patini

#72. 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

#73. I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

John Malkovich

#74. Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.

LaVell Edwards

#75. I understand football. I have always been a good footballer, and that gets overlooked by most people.

Alan Smith

#76. We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.

Bubba Smith

#77. I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically.

John Madden

#78. I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.

Action Bronson

#79. A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.

Thierry Henry

#80. 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

#81. Basketball also helps you learn to move your feet by playing defense and guarding guys, and that all carries over to playing football with staying square and having good footwork.

Calvin Pryor

#82. It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn

Walt Disney

#83. I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.

James McAvoy

#84. Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.

Jay Mohr

#85. I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.

Tom Ford

#86. He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.

Franz Beckenbauer

#87. Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

Faith Hill

#88. Thierry is the best striker in the world. By far he's the best in the world. Thierry doesn't just score goals. Even when he's not having a good day he can make an important pass. He is a strong character. If things go wrong, he bounces straight back. His effect on the club is very big.

Patrick Vieira

#89. I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.

Taylor Kinney

#90. I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.

Imtiaz Ali

#91. Nothing in life that is of value comes easy. If good things came easily then the value would be diminished. When we have a vested interest, when we give everything we have, then, and only then are those good times valuable.

George M. Gilbert

#92. I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

Greg Akcelrod

#93. Where I come from, you don't really dance, you know. I think I was at the age, where, I suppose, I wanted to do what all me friends were doing. I gave up dancing for a while, and then I realised I wasn't as good at football as I thought I was.

Tristan MacManus

#94. 'Monday Night Football' has the good and the bad points. The bad point is you have to wait around all day, and it disrupts your schedule for the next week. Now you have one less day to prepare for the following week.

Bud Grant

#95. In football, the good thing is things can change in a second.

Didier Drogba

#96. 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

#97. I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

Jose Mourinho

#98. I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

Bryan Ferry

#99. I'm a football fan in general. I'm always pulling for a good game.

Holly Robinson Peete

#100. I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.

Jose Mourinho