Playing Football Quotes

#1. I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

Brett Favre

#2. It took a while to find a passion for another career that was as strong as the passion that I had for football. Once I found it in acting, it was simple. Use the tools you were given from playing football and apply it to your new passion. I have done that through acting, producing and writing.

Maurice Hall

#3. When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

Joe Biden

#4. When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.

Troy Polamalu

#5. As the youngest of six kids, I grew up spending summers on Martha's Vineyard, and I was always topless. All the pictures are of me in jean shorts, no shirt - with my brothers, playing football.

Chelsea Handler

#6. Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

Goran Ivanisevic

#7. I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.

Michael East

#8. My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

Nancy Gibbs

#9. A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee
not playing soccer, not playing football
but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class.

Judith Viorst

#10. I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

Alan Hansen

#11. I realize I'm very fortunate to hopefully make a lot of money playing football. I don't know if I want to abuse that privilege and make myself a larger figure than I am.

Andrew Luck

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back.

Jacoby Ellsbury

#15. 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

#16. I grew up playing football and baseball.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#17. Motivation is not something I struggle with. I love playing football, I love being in training.

Lionel Messi

#18. 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

#19. There are hundreds of Beckhams playing football all over the world.

Diego Maradona

#20. The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'

Alex Kapranos

#21. When I first started playing football, a headache was called a 'headache.' And now it's called 'a concussion.'

Junior Seau

#22. I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

Alan Shearer

#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. Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends

Zinedine Zidane

#25. 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

#26. When I was playing football I never enjoyed it that much, I was never happy ... if I scored two goals, I wanted a third, I always wanted more. Now it's all over I can look back with satisfaction, but I never felt that way when I was playing.

Gabriel Batistuta

#27. I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

Mickey Rourke

#28. Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

Burt Bacharach

#29. When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!

Michael Strahan

#30. There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.

Terrell Davis

#31. Kevin knew he had to always outrun the enemy inside him, and if that meant playing football, he'd do it. During puberty, he had taken off running and found too late that he couldn't stop. In dreams that turned into nightmares he ran in fear, ripped from sleep in a sweat, shouting,"Run!

Brenda Sutton Rose

#32. 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

#33. Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.

Ronaldo

#34. This is what you should do, let it rest. I'm playing football for LSU. I'm preparing for R-Kansas. I'm preparing for the next game, and the next game after that.

Les Miles

#35. I love playing football. So I go out to play football, and I don't really feel pressure. Of course, there are some days when things just don't work out as well as they do on other days, but that doesn't have anything to do with pressure.

Mesut Ozil

#36. When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.

Sean Harris

#37. When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.

Stjepan Hauser

#38. Sure, there are times when the guys talk about playing football in school and I can't relate to that, but I can relate to being a female athlete. And as long as you are prepared, work hard and know your stuff, you will be fine.

Megan Alexander

#39. Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park.

Geoff Thompson

#40. I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.

Channing Tatum

#41. When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very emotional when I think about the humiliation that I've suffered playing football.

Marta

#42. 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

#43. I was on the computer the other day and typed my name into Google. Everything on there was bad. I hope in a few years there might be something there about me playing football.

Jake Friend

#44. You're watching your kids playing football, and you're not present. It's like the worst ... it's horrible. I despise myself for it. I think it's a particularly male thing. Being present and in the moment with your kids is something a lot of men struggle with.

Andy Serkis

#45. I love playing football. I love playing for the Patriots.

Tom Brady

#46. If you're not frustrated that you're not playing football then you shouldn't be playing football

Theo Walcott

#47. When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.

Kenny Chesney

#48. Keeping fit is really important as playing football is all I've ever wanted to do.

David Beckham

#49. Bullets an stuff be flying all over. It is something I simply cannot understand - why in hell is we doing all this, anyway? Playing football is one thing. But this, I do not know why. Goddamn.

Winston Groom

#50. 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

#51. When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.

Bill Fagerbakke

#52. There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park.

Tom Ford

#53. 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

#54. Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.

Chad Michael Murray

#55. I don't know what my future holds. I'm gonna love playing football for as long as I can, but there's a lot of other things that I would love to accomplish.

Tim Tebow

#56. Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.

Ronnie Lott

#57. My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

Ian McShane

#58. My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

Warren Moon

#59. I've been playing football forever, and I've been making plays forever.

Torrey Smith

#60. There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.

Dean Cain

#61. I've lived most people's dream by playing football.

Fabrice Muamba

#62. Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.

Roger Milla

#63. I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning.

Wayne Rooney

#64. I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love it.

Tim Tebow

#65. I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Dee Dee Myers

#66. Living life without a GOAL is like playing football without a Goal post. There is no Purpose. Then why play the game of Life?-RVM

R.v.m.

#67. If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.

Alan Shearer

#68. I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

Jerry Rice

#69. My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.

Eli Manning

#70. When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

Victor Cruz

#71. 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

#72. I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

David Beckham

#73. Gisele Bundchen is a bit of a jock. 1 of my fave shoots is her playing football

Anna Wintour

#74. I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?'

Jermain Defoe

#75. Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It's what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport.

Junior Seau

#76. 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

#77. As a young kid, I wasn't really interested at that stage - getting financial advice was far from my mind. I was focused on playing football. But I got onboard with this financial adviser and I heeded his advice, and that was my smartest money decision.

Robbie Fowler

#78. It's so funny; I grew up in the Midwest, I have two older brothers, and you're just as competitive playing football as you are eating pickled eggs, or trying to kill zombies. As long as you don't take it too far, I think it's a good way for people to relate.

Jose Pablo Cantillo

#79. If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

Brian Bosworth

#80. 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

#81. I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.

Andrea Bocelli

#82. I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.

Eddie McClintock

#83. I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.

Frank Lampard

#84. It has all happened so quickly, but it's exciting, I just wanna get back to playing football you know.

Michael Sam

#85. I just always felt I'd be playing football in the NFL - or at least playing for a living.

Kurt Warner

#86. I was playing video games LONG before I ever thought about playing football. If it wasn't for my parents making sure that I got outside every now and then as a child, I probably would've pursued some sort of tech path.

Chris Kluwe

#87. We never had anybody who froze to death playing football. You probably had somebody who died from heat stroke playing football.

Bud Grant

#88. Why is playing football in Europe considered the pinnacle of our game, yet in other spheres of life, that same phrase - 'being in Europe' - is dismissed with suspicion?

Gordon Brown

#89. I'm active - I like playing football, but I'm not very good. I like running, but I'm not really fast.

Michael Kiwanuka

#90. Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

Wayne Rooney

#91. I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football.

John Barnes

#92. Preseason game plans are always about fundamentals and playing football. You're not trying to out-scheme anybody, you're just trying to beat people and out-execute people. That's what's fun to me.

Matt Flynn

#93. I hope we can get to a point where women players are being paid properly all around the world so the only thing they have to worry about is playing football and playing football alone.

Abby Wambach

#94. I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.

Florence Griffith Joyner

#95. Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

Eric Cantona

#96. I have a very strange way of playing football.

Luis Suarez

#97. 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

#98. Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

Hillary Clinton

#99. I am very obsessed with ballet now because it is a very difficult sport and a beautiful one because it is not about money. It's not like playing football or tennis - dance has no sponsors, it's just for the beauty. Maybe it is the only last pure sport.

Carine Roitfeld

#100. I don't wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it's my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you've got to respect that it's not like baseball.

Bryce Harper