Quotes About Football Teams

#1. Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team.

Gene Simmons

#2. At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

Herbert Hoover

#3. One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams.

George Osborne

#4. Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

Iain Duncan Smith

#5. The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.

Alan Smith

#6. I don't take myself seriously all the time; I have to do quirky things, such as helping football teams, moving the ball away from McAllister's foot, getting into The Sun and The Star - because, you know, I like sensationalism, it's a part of what I do.

Uri Geller

#7. Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.

Mike McCarthy

#8. Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

Don Shula

#9. If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

Bertrand Russell

#10. Governments have supported airlines as if they were local football teams. But there are just too many of them. This is the only industry I know that has lost money consistently and makes money infrequently.

Richard L. Hanna

#11. I liken actors and movies and TV shows to football teams. We all have our favorite ones.

Kristoffer Polaha

#12. Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.

Megan McCafferty

#13. I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.

Imtiaz Ali

#14. One thing I can say about the Dallas Cowboys: They have always had talent around them. They have been one of the most talented football teams in all of football.

Emmitt Smith

#15. The game is in a neutral country for both teams.

David Beckham

#16. I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.

Alan Hansen

#17. You'll never have a 16-team playoff in college football. The most that could happen would be four teams in the next century. But after that, I'm dead, so who cares?

Beano Cook

#18. Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.

J.R. Moehringer

#19. When you have a script, and you're discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that's a kind of like a fantasy football game. You can imagine these different dream teams interpreting these characters that only exist in your head.

Cary Fukunaga

#20. It's a great start, but we have a tough group: we have big teams like Denmark, Armenia and Serbia, so starting here gives us a good opportunity to fight until the end.

Lorik Cana

#21. It's going to take a shoehorn to prise these two teams apart

Alan Parry

#22. If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this

Peyton Manning

#23. I'm definitely a football fan, so I try to stay up with how teams are doing, and you end up getting a lot of buddies that play on certain teams. I wouldn't say I watch too much of other quarterbacks.

Andrew Luck

#24. I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.

Thierry Henry

#25. It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.

Hunter S. Thompson

#26. Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.

Royston Drenthe

#27. Bill Belichick is the best professional football coach I think ever lived. I'm upset that I played for a plethora of teams and never got an opportunity to play for Bill Belichick.

Deion Sanders

#28. 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

#29. There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

Marv Levy

#30. I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge.

Jim Otto

#31. I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.

Bill Simmons

#32. What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.

Jimmy Hill

#33. On current form, both teams will probably lose.

Aidy Boothroyd

#34. You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

Xavi

#35. There are teams that wait for you and teams that look for you: Espanyol look for you. I feel very close to their style of football.

Pep Guardiola

#36. Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you're capable of. It's only two teams on that Monday night.

Jerry Rice

#37. In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

Bill Shankly

#38. I think Southampton will finish above teams that are well below them.

Paul Merson

#39. You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.

John Madden

#40. Since we travel a lot as a team, I spend a lot of time on a plane where I like to play 'Football Manager.' I have been a soccer fan since I was 5 years old, so to be able to manage soccer teams is a lot of fun.

Carl Hagelin

#41. I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.

Gareth Bale

#42. I enjoy watching football on TV. Many times I can visualize the whole field, even on the TV screen, because I still know enough about what the teams are doing.

Tony Dungy

#43. I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

Ryan Giggs

#44. 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

#45. Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.

David Pleat

#46. 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

#47. Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is inferior. It's not.

Guus Hiddink

#48. The thing about special teams - and I think football in general - is sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you,

John Harbaugh

#49. England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#50. 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

#51. I did try out for football and wrestling but they wouldn't let me on the teams because I had blue hair.

CM Punk

#52. The draft is one of my favorite events because it is about football. People are focused on how their teams improve. It's a celebration of football. And most importantly, it represents a very important time in the lives of these men who are entering the NFL, and their families.

Roger Goodell

#53. Attitude is the whole thing in football. Every team has the talent and the coaching. Motivation makes the difference. The teams that win stay healthy and interested.

Sid Gillman

#54. 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

#55. What does it mean when someone supports Manchester United or whatever it's called?"
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"They always win. So they've started believing they deserve to.

Fredrik Backman

#56. When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in a play, where there is a great star. If the star is not well, the whole cast suffers.

Pele

#57. Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

Junior Seau

#58. If you have a dad who supports Liverpool you always fucking think you can turn anything around. You know! Ever since that Champions League final.

Fredrik Backman

#59. Football is one-third offense, one-third defense, and one-third special teams.

George Allen

#60. Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

Vince Lombardi

#61. I want to play for Arsenal. When you see football all around the world, you see very few teams who play the way that we play. I just enjoy it. I feel it is my home now.

Cesc Fabregas

#62. In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

Johan Cruijff

#63. I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

Peter Robinson

#64. I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic. Look at all the teams in America that have folded, and the leagues.

Hope Solo

#65. Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.

Dennis Bergkamp