Top 100 Play Football Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I wasn't concerned with the money stuff; I only wanted to play football.
Drew Busby
#3. I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'
Peter Mullan
#4. I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.
Freddy Adu
#5. Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
Ronald Reagan
#6. 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
#8. All religions, they play football - even nowadays all girls and women have the right to play football in cultures like the Arabic countries in the Muslim they play football.
Sepp Blatter
#9. 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
#10. I think everyone should pursue their dreams. Whether you want to play football, act, sing, become a writer or whatever you have burning inside you as you're growing up, you should pursue it.
Tom Hiddleston
#11. You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself ... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football.
Maurice Jones-Drew
#12. The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.
Brian Bosworth
#13. Chelsea are not made to play football. We're good on the counter, a little bit like Real against Bayern.
Eden Hazard
#14. We want the right people, the ones who love to play football. I want a guy who, if I punch him in the mouth, doesn't stand there and say, ?Why did you punch me?' I want the guy who punches me back first, and then asks me why I did it.
Matt Millen
#15. It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.
Tony Gonzalez
#16. The stuff I went through at Auburn? It didn't matter anymore. I just wanted to play football.
Brandon Jacobs
#17. I feel like I'm just like anyone else. I just happen to play football, and obviously with that comes responsibility, but I love that.
Torrey Smith
#18. I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
Daniel Radcliffe
#19. I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.
Joe Greene
#20. Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
Fran Lebowitz
#21. I ain't got nothing to say. I just wanna play football.
Marshawn Lynch
#22. I'm very close in age to my older brother, and we had a field at the end of the road where we could run around, climb trees, play football.
James Bay
#23. I like to think of myself as a regular guy, except I play football for a living. I try not to be an arrogant turd out there.
Brian Urlacher
#25. 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
#26. At every opportunity, I wanted to play football.
Paul Scholes
#27. I'm going to have my family after I play football.
Terrell Owens
#28. I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.
Robert Griffin III
#29. We don't even get food for 2 times a day, still I didn't give up and continued to play football
Luis Suarez
#30. Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim
but there's always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.
Dan Gable
#31. The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
Phyllis Diller
#32. It's a lot harder to play football when you haven't got the ball.
Andy Gray
#33. I learned how to play football and I got pretty good at it. I enjoyed being on a team with other girls. In Hollywood, girls are always competing against one another, so it was nice to be on a team with other girls for a change.
Nikki Ziering
#34. No talking. Talking doesn't play football, talking isn't going to make you practice harder or play harder.
Ken Simonton
#35. I don't care if you're my brother - if we go play football, I'm gonna try to crack your head open. It doesn't mean that I don't love you. It doesn't mean that I don't respect you.
Daymond John
#36. I am not better than anyone else just because I play football.
Tim Tebow
#37. Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want,' he said, and then he paused and he thought. 'I want everything.
Neil Gaiman
#38. As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.
Gareth Bale
#39. I get paid to play football, not to sit on the bench, I don't enjoy that. Over the years loads of players have been very happy to do that and pick up their money. That used to really wind me up.
Kevin Kilbane
#40. I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.
Gareth Bale
#41. I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.
River Phoenix
#42. I just came to West Ham to play football, the rest is not for me to say.
Carlos Tevez
#43. I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.
Moses Malone
#44. It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy
getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff
get undercut by having to play football.
Mary Karr
#45. When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.
Terry Bradshaw
#46. I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done.
Bill Nighy
#48. I want to play football for as long as my body will let me, and for as long as I can do a good job at it. And I want a wife. A son. Maybe another kid.
Jaci Burton
#49. Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right;
Harper Lee
#50. If I can run, I'm not going to sit out any game. I'm here to play football, not to watch and collect a check.
Logan Mankins
#51. If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.
Brian Clough
#52. God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.
Joe Gibbs
#53. In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.
Brett Favre
#55. None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.
Joe Namath
#56. I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.
Julio Iglesias
#57. I'm a guy here to play football. I'm not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I'm not into all that.
Randy Moss
#58. I just want to continue to play football and be myself.
Victor Cruz
#59. My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.
Rickey Henderson
#60. Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.
Michael Skolnik
#61. I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.
Justin Timberlake
#62. You gotta have a little kid in you to play football.
Herman Edwards
#63. The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books - and by that I mean soccer books - stories about boys in school who started to play football and then became the captain. I'd read them cover to cover. I just got lost in them.
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
#64. 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
#65. I went to college to play football, not to study it.
Art Donovan
#66. At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.
George Plimpton
#68. I'm not even thinking about going back to play football at all. My mind's made up. I'm done.
Keyshawn Johnson
#69. I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want," he said, and then he paused and thought. "I want everything.
Neil Gaiman
#70. I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat.
Jordin Sparks
#71. In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.
Alan Smith
#72. I learned to play football in the streets. Every day of school, everyone came and played football. The street is a good school, and you learn many things there - resiliency, how to play against older players, and how to put up with or dodge kicks.
Sergio Aguero
#73. I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.
Calvin Johnson
#74. When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#75. My neighborhood was like 'The Wonder Years.' We played until 10 o'clock at night. We used to tell scary stories. I was the one scaring them. We used to play football by this place called the Myer's House. It was a big, spooky house with the gables; we'd hang out there and scare each other.
Richard Chizmar
#76. I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football, and I have 20/20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.
Jay Leno
#77. I hated my mom for not letting me play football as a kid. So when I have kids someday, I guarantee they'll never meet their grandmother.
Anthony Jeselnik
#78. Now that it looks like things are headed on the right path, I'm ready to go back and play football
Devon Still
#79. I play football every Tuesday and Thursday early in the season. I am smart enough at the game. I score a lot of goals. I wouldn't be the best in the world but I am OK.
Usain Bolt
#80. He looks good in that Eagles jersey, doesn't he?" Chloe nods. "So cute." "I love baseball." "The Eagles play football, Everly.
Jana Aston
#81. He [Ryan white] spoke to me that my life was out of order. My life was a mess. I had no values anymore. And he was so stoic with his infection. He wasn't bitter. He wasn't angry. He just was a kid. He wanted to go to school and play football, drive his car. And he had no bitterness about him.
Elton John
#82. Carlos Tevez is so rich that when he retires he'll never have to play football again
Andy Gray
#83. I wanted to go to college and play football.
Barry Larkin
#84. It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.
Rafer Johnson
#85. I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.
Pele
#86. He passes me an envelope, and inside are two tickets to see Seattle play football.
Kristen Proby
#87. Every club if I am not playing, I leave because I want to play football. All I wanted to do since I was a kid is play football and if I wasn't at a club I'd be playing with my mates on a Sunday. I still come home and play five-a-side with my mates.
Kevin Kilbane
#88. Do you play football for Pittsburgh? Then why are you such a Steeler?!
Lisi Harrison
#89. Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage.
Marta
#90. I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
#91. Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.
Peter Capaldi
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. All I have to do is play football now.
Vince Young
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