Quotes About Football Supporters

#1. A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!

Delia Smith

#2. I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.

James Carr

#3. Every soul craves to fill the void.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Being a football fan entitles us to a temporary, recurring retreat, a short holiday from real existence. Our lives can be in chaos and nothing seem fixed. Nothing except how we feel on a Saturday at 3pm, when we are elevated into blissful and infuriating distraction. What a privilege that is.

Daniel Gray

#5. All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it ...

Katherine Anne Porter

#6. No money in this world could convince me to play for Liverpool. That's not a lack of respect for Liverpool supporters or the football club. It's respect for the Everton supporters. You just can't do that. It goes against everything that I stand for. No chance.

Timothy F. Cahill

#7. Feeling are communicated by means of ideas, which are their intellectual equivalent; at the sound of the words conveying the ideas the appropriate emotion is evoked.

Aldous Huxley

#8. Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

Neal Shusterman

#9. Love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only
and best
answer to death is loving. Loving.

Dean Koontz

#10. I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.

Alex Ferguson

#11. Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.

Peggy Noonan

#12. Damn it, why does he have to be so damn beautiful? And why do I have to be so damn aware of it?

Rick Yancey

#13. Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

Graham Taylor

#14. You should see what she's wearing, Callie. It's velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana.

Sarah MacLean

#15. You cannot just switch football on and off; it's intense. There were times when I probably shouldn't have got involved in certain things and said certain things, but you feel that sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe. Maybe the supporters looked to me to stand up as well.

David Dunn

#16. I'm banking on my ERA (Eternal retirement account) more than my IRA! Do you have an ERA?

Evinda Lepins

#17. Conversation was irrelevant. Only pie mattered.

Richelle Mead

#18. However, football has a life of its own and it seems to outlive us all, even the most influential and historic figures and powerful ideals. That, in a way, is a comfort to us who call ourselves supporters; we are part of the breath of something immortal.

Brian Belton

#19. I always thought, from day one, that winning races was just doing your job.

Ron Dennis

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

Dean Windass

#21. 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

#22. If opportunity doesn't come knocking at your door, build a brand.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#23. Tottenham Hotspur has a huge following across the world and I have great admiration for the passion the fans show for this team. We are determined to give the supporters the kind of attacking football and success that we are all looking to achieve.

Mauricio Pochettino