Quotes About Footy

#1. Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much.

Max Walker

#2. I am never disappointed in Jobe Watson ... (who) is a man of the highest integrity, highest character and a great person for our footy club ... I have no concern for Jobe.

James Hird

#3. About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.

Max Walker

#4. My first scene was a streaking scene, I had to streak at a footy game, that's how I get introduced.

Ben Nicholas

#5. I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.

Vance Joy

#6. Bull spots us and gives his two-thumbs salute, trotting backwards. Imm-pressive! All those years of practice are starting to pay off - his footy is still woeful but he's got the reverse trot down to a fine art.

Bill Condon

#7. In real life I am a bit of a tomboy. I like the footy and sports. I am more comfortable in running gear than I am in heels, because I usually trip up in them.

Anna Hutchison

#8. If a player wants to out himself, then I say good luck. But I believe the world of AFL footy is not ready for it. To come out is unnecessary for a lot of reasons. It would be international news and could break the fabric of a club

Jason Akermanis

#9. I auditioned for Julliard because I wanted to live in New York, and I wanted to be on Broadway at the time. Julliard seemed like right way to get there.

Audra McDonald

#10. White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

Honore De Balzac

#11. I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

Alan Shearer

#12. There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.

Gary Lineker

#13. I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier.

Ugo Ehiogu

#14. I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.

Adriana Lima

#15. [On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

Judith Viorst

#16. Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

Aneurin Bevan

#17. Children laugh 400 times per day ... the average adult laughs 15 times per day. Somewhere along the way we lost 385 laughs a day.

David Archuleta

#18. You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

Archie Manning

#19. The highest aim was never to master Jiu Jitsu; it was to master myself.

Chris Matakas

#20. Ironically, we often spend a great deal of time and effort trying to control our external conditions, while letting our internal reactions run wild.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#21. Is your name even David?' I asked as I yanked my panties back on.
'Is yours Melanie?' he inquired, buttoning his jeans.
'I asked first,' I countered, wondering for the umpteenth time why being an idiot came so easily to me.

Robyn Peterman