Top 100 Quotes About Football
#1. West Ham play a speficic type of game - football.
Artur Boruc
#2. 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
#3. No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.
Vicente Del Bosque
#4. God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
Heywood Broun
#5. Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
Darrell Royal
#6. Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him.
John Turturro
#7. I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.
Fred Frith
#8. Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
Jack Youngblood
#9. Success in football is impossible without a good school.
Sergey Galitsky
#10. The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.
Steve Sabol
#11. Although I may not know a lot about football, I do know a lot about food! As a result, not many people ask me to join their fantasy leagues, but they will come to me for suggestions on what to serve for guests for a weekly Sunday get-together.
Marcus Samuelsson
#12. I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.
Frank Grillo
#13. I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.
Andrew O'Hagan
#14. When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.
Catherine Bell
#15. We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.
Michael Strahan
#16. I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
Xavi
#17. I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.
Charles Kelley
#18. When I started, there weren't any arenas. There was football fields, but they would only hold three or four or five hundred people at the most ... We played a lot of high school auditoriums and things like that - a lot of churches ... but boy, it has changed.
Jim Ed Brown
#19. I grew up playing football since the day I could walk; some of my greatest memories of childhood are playing touch football in all kinds of weather with my best friends. That's a part of the American experience that no corporation can destroy.
Greg Graffin
#20. Football players have some bodies! Oh my goodness!
Vivica A. Fox
#21. I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.
Merlin Olsen
#22. I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships.
Ben Roethlisberger
#23. I remember when we were making 'They Call It Pro Football,' which was our 'Citizen Kane.' The first line is 'It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.'
Steve Sabol
#24. How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool.
Simon Raven
#25. My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.
Bruce Dickinson
#26. 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
#27. The stuff I went through at Auburn? It didn't matter anymore. I just wanted to play football.
Brandon Jacobs
#28. I love football now. I have a club in Sarajevo, and I love that. The fans are fantastic. The people who run the club are incredible, honest people, and they really motivate me.
Vincent Tan
#30. There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it's not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.
Bill Belichick
#31. [American football] fanbase resemble that of contemporary boxing: rich people watching poor people play a game they would never play themselves.
Chuck Klosterman
#32. Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.
Jonathan Sacks
#33. Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting
Vince Lombardi
#34. As you understand the game of football, you understand that it is about wins and losses.
Tyrone Willingham
#35. Sammy Baugh embodied all we aspire to at the Washington Redskins. He was a competitor in everything he did and a winner. He was one of the greatest to ever play the game of football, and one of the greatest the Redskins ever had.
Daniel Snyder
#36. Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.
Alice Dreger
#37. Football, you can go out and buy a football and play it in your backyard. Basketball, you can go out and play it in the schoolyard or in your driveway. Baseball, you get a glove and a bat and a ball and you go out and play in the neighborhood. You can't do that in hockey.
Jeremy Roenick
#38. We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.
Steven Gerrard
#39. There's no way running on a beach or at some high school playground that you're going to get in football shape like you do when you practice.
Steve Mariucci
#40. I'm happy with the Arena Football League right now. I'm happy in Denver.
John Elway
#41. I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30
Robbie Savage
#42. But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.
H. G. Bissinger
#43. Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.
Ruud Gullit
#44. Every football player knows when his time is up.
Red Grange
#45. People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.
Reggie White
#46. I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.
Dennis Bergkamp
#47. More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?
George Saunders
#48. I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.
Vinnie Jones
#49. I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.
Bo Jackson
#50. It's one of the best leagues in Europe in football. Benfica in my opinion is one of the top 10 biggest clubs in the world.
Freddy Adu
#51. I just love watching football. It doesn't matter what level it is, whether it's Fleetwood or Blackpool. I love to go and watch games.
Charlie Adam
#52. Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.
Derek Bok
#53. As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. When I was 16 years old, I started yoga. I started working out at an early age.
Miranda Kerr
#54. Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.
Gale Sayers
#55. I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all.
Nathan Kress
#56. There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe.
David Beckham
#57. Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
Thomas Sowell
#58. I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.
Jimmy Breslin
#59. I never really knew how to throw a football before,
Terrelle Pryor
#60. There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.
Jermain Defoe
#61. If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
Eric Cantona
#62. In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!
Hillary Scott
#63. Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are.
Simone Elkeles
#64. As someone who loves football, I will continue to speak out frankly about FIFA's problems.
Chung Mong-joon
#65. What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.
Michael Vick
#66. Chelsea are not made to play football. We're good on the counter, a little bit like Real against Bayern.
Eden Hazard
#67. Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life.
Gordon Brown
#68. In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!
Parminder Nagra
#69. 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
#70. It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.
Tony Gonzalez
#71. Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.
Charles Krauthammer
#73. If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
Ricky Williams
#74. While executives don't age nearly as fast as athletes do, companies, markets, and technologies change a thousand times faster than the game of football. As
Ben Horowitz
#75. If you're giving me tickets to the football game, baseball game or hockey game, I'm taking the tickets to the hockey game. For me, it's by far the most fun sport to go and watch live and be part of. I just don't know why it doesn't translate as well on TV.
Tom Glavine
#76. I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
John Cale
#77. I love football and I love winning, and when things aren't going right I get annoyed.
David Beckham
#78. I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football.
(on Euro 2004)
Andy Townsend
#79. Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
Bo Jackson
#80. There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.
Marta
#81. Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
Ron Jaworski
#82. I don't play video games. My husband does. He plays sometimes the football, and every once in a while when he gets bored, he'll do a little boxing in there. He gets into the football. You can trade players, and he keeps up with the whole aspect of the game, not just the game. He's a fanatic.
Laila Ali
#83. My favorite memory from school was going to football games with my friends. We always had so much spirit and dressed up to go to the games, even though our team was pretty bad.
Erin Heatherton
#84. Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
Nick Hornby
#85. 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
#86. I will not promise boys positions, I will not promise any of you football success, I will demand discipline, character, respect, and work ethic throughout the program. If I succeed in getting people to believe then success will follow.
George M. Gilbert
#87. You know, I stopped being competitive after I played football.
Isaiah Mustafa
#88. I grew up in Doncaster and have felt the love for football run through the town; it's for that reason that I have a real personal passion to make Doncaster Rovers a success story.
Louis Tomlinson
#89. I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.
Knute Rockne
#90. But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
Daley Thompson
#91. To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.
Diego Maradona
#92. The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team
Barry Sanders
#93. As she reached for the plates, she wondered if her life could get any weirder. Her life savings had been handed over to a band of South American guerrillas, she had a phony engagement to a famous football player, she was homeless and jobless, and she was making breakfast for Mad Jack Patriot.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#94. The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi has become a political football in the presidential campaign, with all the grandstanding and misinformation that entails.
David Ignatius
#95. Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.
Erma Bombeck
#96. German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character.
Franz Beckenbauer
#97. Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore
Brendan Rodgers
#98. What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.
Arsene Wenger
#99. Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.
Ike Barinholtz
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