Top 100 More Than Football Quotes
#1. I don't really pretend to know what's going on, but I've been immersed in the excitement of watching sports, particularly football. I like baseball, probably more than football.
Kevin Corrigan
#2. My wife tells me one day, 'I think you love baseball more than me.' I say, 'Well, I guess that's true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.'
Tommy Lasorda
#3. There's nothing I like more than football ... except for sex.
Romario
#4. The eiderdown of this 2-0 lead is a lot more comfortable than the blanket of 1-0.
George Hamilton
#5. You know I'll never say no, and Nate's so dedicated, I think he loves our alpha more than me."
"I resent that," Nate grumbled. "I might love football more than you, but definitely not Lucas's ugly mug.
Nalini Singh
#6. Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.
Franklin Foer
#7. By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
Irv Kupcinet
#8. Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at this to see if there is any way to improve safety. We need to set some standards, because the ones now are not protecting players to the highest level.
G. K. Butterfield
#9. The politics at Max's were very similar to high school, except the popular people were not the cheerleaders or football heroes and the prom queen would most certainly e a he, dressed as a she, knowing more about being a she than most she's.
Patti Smith
#10. There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.
Brian Clough
#11. You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right.
Alex Ferguson
#12. 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
#13. A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.
Frank Langella
#14. When did everything get so damn complicated?" "When your life became about more than just football." "You sound like Yoda." I grinned. "It's the beer.
Cambria Hebert
#15. Some people believe that football[soccer] is a matter of life and death. I'm very dissappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much more important than that.
Bill Shankly
#16. I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.
Bobby Sherman
#17. In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
H. G. Bissinger
#18. 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
#19. The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.
Pele
#20. What I needed more than anything was a place where unfocused unhappiness could thrive, where I could be still and worry and mope; I had the blues, and when I watched my team I could unwrap them and let them breathe a little.
Nick Hornby
#21. My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
Marat Safin
#22. There's more to me than football. It's just part of my life.
Chad Pennington
#23. The new season will be all about scoring more goals than the opposition.
Alvin Martin
#24. I was baptized Methodist, but I was mainly raised First Church of NFL, which is to say that my family, especially my father, was much more concerned with watching football on Sundays than attending services.
Christopher Moore
#25. More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.
Stephen Rodrick
#26. It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
Shirley Chisholm
#27. All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.
Mark Viduka
#28. Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.
Antonio Gates
#29. I'm one of the most competitive guys in the NFL. Believe me, nobody wants it more than me.
Randy Moss
#30. I like rugby - I watch it from time to time. It's basically football without pads but probably a little bit more dangerous than football. You've got to be a lot tougher in that sport - but I definitely like watching rugby and watching those guys knock each other around. It looks like a fun sport.
Reggie Bush
#31. There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.
Keith Allen
#32. There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.
Robbie Savage
#33. The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
Joe Montana
#34. I am in a lot of pain. They say it is more pain than when you have a baby but I don't know as I have not had one. It is not possible.
Luiz Felipe Scolari
#35. Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly
#36. Guys don't seem to think this, but the stuff that girls talk about is more raunchy than what guys talk about in a football lockeroom.
Scott Porter
#37. 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
#39. That's Steve Howey's third-ever League goal and he's never scored more than two in a season before.
Jeff Stelling
#40. If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.
Roger Milla
#41. Some people believe football (soccer) is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.
Bill Shankly
#42. He is not injured. He's not fit. He's not fit to play football, unfortunately. He played in a reserve game the other day and I could have run about more than he did. I can't pick him.
Harry Redknapp
#43. Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.
Patrick Rothfuss
#44. As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football.
Ian Mortimer
#45. Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.
Kevin McCall
#46. What's so amazing in today's society is people look up to football players. And as a football player, you have a platform. And it's so much more important than any touchdown or trophy or anything you could win with football. Its taking that platform and be able to influence people.
Tim Tebow
#47. To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.
Jacques Barzun
#48. What matters to me more than anything is that when all of this is over, football is the winner.
Sepp Blatter
#49. Football is important, but it is never more important than life.
Nemanja Vidic
#50. It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than Sven Goran Eriksson.
Gordon Strachan
#51. As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.
Desmond Morris
#52. Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
-Knute Rockne
Knute Rockne
#53. This Celtic football club is much more than a football club to a lot of people its a way of life-
Robert Kelly
#54. The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts.
Dennis Miller
#55. watch William's beloved sport, but to him televised football was no more interesting, or even narratively intelligible, than a flea circus, so he got up and went to the kitchenette to do the other stations of the Yuletide cross.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#56. Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians.
Dennis Miller
#57. Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.
John Carlin
#58. No pro football player should die of heatstroke, any more than cholera, in this day and age if the most basic attention is paid and precautions are taken.
Sally Jenkins
#59. I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
Zakk Wylde
#61. There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.
Robert Griffin III
#62. Homosexuality, to the limited extent it was discussed in our church, was little more than a political football, a quick test of orthodoxy.
Matthew Vines
#63. So many times in today's society, we can put football No. 1. And I've done it in my life at certain times. You put football number one, this game is more important than anything else. Well, really, it's not. It's just a game.
Tim Tebow
#64. It's more than personal. I can't screw it up. I have to do ...
Jim Harbaugh
#65. Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.
Zinedine Zidane
#66. When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.
Jermain Defoe
#67. The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
Bob Schieffer
#68. A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones.
Richard Preston
#69. There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.
Taylor Swift
#70. Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.
Merlin Olsen
#71. The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.
Alan Page
#72. 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
#73. Permian had established itself as perhaps the most successful football dynasty in the country - pro, college, or high school. Few brands of sport were more competitive than Class AAAAA Texas high school football, the division for the biggest schools in the state.
H. G. Bissinger
#74. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
Vince Lombardi
#75. I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.
Bobby Bowden
#76. The game of football really is more cerebral than most people think. To be successful, it takes more than just strength and speed; it takes versatility, intelligence, and ability to think quickly and calmly, to adapt to every situation.
Ray Rice
#77. Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly
#78. I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
Lou Holtz
#79. The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
Vicente Del Bosque
#80. I would say I'm more traditional than I am superstitious. I don't, for example, have to do things ritually before the game in order to feel comfortable going to the game. But I don't think I'm naturally a football player. I don't have that grit and that killer instinct.
Troy Polamalu
#81. Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.
Doug Flutie
#82. It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team.
Diego Maradona
#83. I'd have loved to have been a footballer. I was always playing football and I enjoyed it much more than tennis to begin with. It's more fun to play in a team, all the parents are there cheering you on.
Andy Murray
#84. As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
Gary Neville
#85. 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
#86. They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.
Brendan Rodgers
#87. The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.
Franz Beckenbauer
#88. It is more likely that coaches have players go down in games they are losing than games they are winning.
George M. Gilbert
#89. All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was.
Lawrence Taylor
#90. I love you more than the pool hall, but not as much as football.
Mojo Nixon
#91. No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.
Al Davis
#92. One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team.
A.W. Tozer
#93. In death, as so often in life, truth is stranger than fiction." Why is life more unpredictable than a football game?
Joanna Eliot
#94. In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
Xavi
#95. You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.
Paul Dietzel
#96. No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game.
Woody Allen
#97. 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
#98. More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids.
Stella McCartney
#99. When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.
Bill Cosby
#100. We were in an awkward position against Yugoslavia in that in order to win we needed to score more goals than they did.
Jose Antonio Camacho
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