Quotes About Football Players

#1. 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

#2. I wanted to show them I will never give up. We have to keep together. I still believe in myself. I will never change. The players need to release the rubbish from their brains.

Paolo Di Canio

#3. Yes, high school...the land of drama queens and egocentric football players.

Hermione Daguin

#4. AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leopards match, with the opposing goalkeeper being handcuffed and dragged away to jail by police.

David Bennun

#5. For some reason in today's society, people look up to football players and you have a voice. And it's because of that voice you have the opportunity to impact people's lives.

Tim Tebow

#6. When I came to Barcelona, I really liked in the dressing room that I found balanced, normal people: Valdes, Puyol, Iniesta. They don't think they are the center of the world for being football players.

Lilian Thuram

#7. Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are
retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

Edward Abbey

#8. High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.

Antonio Gates

#9. Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.

Johan Cruijff

#10. At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

Bill Shankly

#11. Hope? The word seemed to bang from wall to wall. Hope? No, I don't think there's any hope. We're too empty here ... She touched her heart. This isn't a country at all, it's a collection of football players and Eagle Scouts. Cowards. We think we're happy. We're not. We're doomed.

James Baldwin

#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. In Missoula, Grizzly football exists in a realm apart, where there is a pervasive sense of entitlement. University of Montana fans, coaches, players, and their lawyers expect, and often receive, special dispensation.

Jon Krakauer

#14. I see football as an art and all players are artists.
If you are a top artist, the last thing you would do is paint a picture somebody else has already painted.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#15. If you were in the Brondby dressing room right now, which of the Liverpool players would you be looking at?

Ray Stubbs

#16. 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

#17. They didn't change positions, they just moved the players around.

Terry Venables

#18. I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the reality of modern football. Big teams only want big players, big players are in big clubs, big clubs want to keep their big players.

Jose Mourinho

#19. Concussion? How the hell can they tell? They're *football* players, for chrissakes!

Dennis Miller

#20. Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

Wayne Rooney

#21. Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

Henry Rollins

#22. I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.

Ron Atkinson

#23. Micheal Barrow and Darrin Smith, those guys were really intelligent. They're smart football players. They'd always be a step ahead of the offense and could predict what was coming. Dan Morgan has that. Jonathan Vilma has that. Ray Lewis has that.

Larry Coker

#24. That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex.

Johnny Weir

#25. Football players should always remember there's a whole lot more to life.

Steve Largent

#26. As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

Jeffrey Kluger

#27. Supporters have every divine right to slag your players off when they're not winning games.

Dean Windass

#28. One or two of their players aren't getting any younger

Clive Tyldesley

#29. There definitely needs to be water on the sidelines for these players, but I also had some Gatorade just in case they were allergic to the water or vice versa.

John Madden

#30. NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

O.J. Simpson

#31. Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

Jim Brown

#32. 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

#33. Systems don't win, players do.

Marv Levy

#34. I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

Pele

#35. There are things players go through on an everyday basis in the business of football. You don't see it all with the glitz and glamour of game day.

Terrell Owens

#36. Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they're black or white, much as soldiers do.

Oliver Stone

#37. We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time.

Johan Cruijff

#38. I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.

Rachel Nichols

#39. 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

#40. You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.

Alex Ferguson

#41. At the end of the day, I'm a footballer who has played at some of the biggest football clubs in the world and played with some of the best players in the world.

David Beckham

#42. In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.

Frank Lampard

#43. Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

George Archer

#44. Defensive players kind of have that two-faced kind of way of being able to be very aggressive on the football field and going out there and getting there job done. At the same time, from my own incidents and my own personality, I'm much a person that's very likable and lovable.

Ndamukong Suh

#45. I think the way we played was as important as winning the title, the way we did it with the players and the fans enjoying it.

Manuel Pellegrini

#46. 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

#47. And a bunch of the other guys on the football team would be teaching kids how to bench-press or tackle or rape or whatever it was that football players knew how to do well.

Melissa Kantor

#48. When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football.

Brent Musburger

#49. Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

Eric Cantona

#50. Two blue men the size of football players walking through a store wrapped in Roman gladiator armor was bound to attract attention.

Missy Lyons

#51. There's so much built-up camaraderie and sacrifice, and football is such a tough man's game. I think that's why it's so popular. That's why so many blue-collar communities and people can really feel attracted to this because it is a blue-collar struggle that football players go through.

Troy Polamalu

#52. England are very light up front. Eriksson's decision not to include Jermaine Defoe can be declared an error of judgment, regardless of Rooney's situation. The Swede should have forgone one of his nine midfield players; much will have to go wrong for Jermaine Jenas to get a game.

Matt Dickinson

#53. Loyalty doesn't seem to be in the game that much these days where players leave their clubs which made them the stars they are today either to seek personal glory or fill their pockets. But one man serves as the epitome of club loyalty..

Steven Gerrard

#54. My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

Tony Dorsett

#55. You're convincing these big, tough football players to wear what was essentially women's lingerie. There was a little bit of a Jedi mind trick that needed to take place. The product really spoke for itself once guys felt it and touched it.

Kevin Plank

#56. In the NFL, 31 players have been arrested just since the Super Bowl. In fact, a lot of teams are switching to the no-huddle offense because players aren't allowed to associate with known felons.

Jay Leno

#57. When you go out on a football field, you are responsible for taking care of yourself. The more rules you get, the less players truly take care of themselves.

Jim Brown

#58. How lucky I was to have played for the Pittsburgh Steelers fans. A proud, hard-working people, who loves their football, and their players.

Jack Lambert

#59. It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

Red Smith

#60. There's so many kids out there and it's such a cut-throat world. I've seen a lot of my mates, you know, who are better players than me at a certain age, and they're not in football now.

Frank Lampard

#61. I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

Arsene Wenger

#62. I think players tend to get anxious if they've not really done things properly - like eating, resting or training. If you're fully prepared you've got nothing to worry about - it's just a game of football.

Roy Keane

#63. Some people in the town did not seem to care about the festival and were watching football on TV. The players were dotted about in neon green. They looked unreal, the way they might be seen by the forgotten man in the moon and the rabbit if they were watching the floodlit pitch forlornly from above.

Olivia Sudjic

#64. 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

#65. If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it.

Andy Gray

#66. I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

Arsene Wenger

#67. Some of their players are internationals; some play for their national team.

Steve McClaren

#68. He's one of the greatest players in the world, if not one of the greatest anywhere.

Sky Andrew

#69. My fellow players are sometimes occupying the spaces I want to play in. That forces me to adjust my runs, based on the position of my fellow players. Unfortunately, they're often playing in my zones. I think that's a shame

Robin Van Persie

#70. Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Jim Bouton

#71. At heart he was a secret Quaker and football was pure violence. The coach was always telling him to "hit them harder." The coach wanted him to put opposing players "out of commission." He kept it to himself but wondered what the point of the "game" was if your intention was to hurt people badly.

Jim Harrison

#72. Doping in English football is restricted to lager and baked beans with sausages. After which the players take to the field, belching and farting. English football culture is one of pure, intense competition, and that's why I have always preferred it to Italy.

Paolo Di Canio

#73. I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.

Steven Gerrard

#74. Shinji is a quality player but he is not the only one who is finding it hard to get regular football. There are many top players in the squad and there is plenty of competition.

Andy Cole

#75. Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem.

Pele

#76. It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that.

Robbie Fowler

#77. The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

Red Grange

#78. The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.

Jay Leno

#79. Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

Steve Sabol

#80. I had lots of posters on my bedroom wall of players like Zico, many Brazilian and Italian players, not many players in particular but I loved football so much and I especially loved skilful players.

Emmanuel Petit

#81. I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

Reggie Bush

#82. 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

#83. It is more likely that coaches have players go down in games they are losing than games they are winning.

George M. Gilbert

#84. I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football.

Sepp Blatter

#85. 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

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

Neymar

#87. It's great to have atmosphere at the stadium, but football is all about the players.

Isco

#88. We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.

Gerard Houllier

#89. In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

Angela Merkel

#90. Statistically, I'd say there are about as many gay figure skaters as there are gay football players. The majority are straight. There are just those few exceptions, and those are the ones who have gotten picked on and followed over the years.

Johnny Weir

#91. I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

Ato Boldon

#92. 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

#93. We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level.

Bobby Robson

#94. The coaches will offer a direction, a plan, routine, discipline and the players must develop the desire to work together accepting their roles as they learn in preparation for the season.

George M. Gilbert

#95. I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

Alex Karras

#96. The whole object of the players' association is to try and make sure that any individual is able to capitalise on his ability, particularly in football, which is a very short career.

Gordon Taylor

#97. My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn't fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn't there and focus on the job.

Glenn Hoddle

#98. It is important for students to get a - to be exposed to a variety of people. Just like you want football players, you want piccolo players, you want people from all over the country and different backgrounds.

Paul Gigot

#99. I don't think there is any place in football for drinking. I have said on several occasions to players: You don't put diesel in a Ferrari.

Harry Redknapp

#100. I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.

Joe Namath