Top 100 Quotes About Player Football
#1. I don't judge my self-worth as a football player. Football is something I love. It's a fun career deal, but it's not what I want to do with my life, because I see football as a game.
Tim Tebow
#2. I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.
Dwyane Wade
#3. I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.
Jevon Kearse
#4. 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
#5. The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.
Steve Young
#6. I hope people see us not just as a football player, but also as human beings, we are not machines!
Marco Reus
#7. One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.
Tim Tebow
#8. I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.
Mohamed Al-Fayed
#9. My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.
Willie Lanier
#10. That showed a total lack of disrespect from the player.
Garth Crooks
#11. I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.
Gaines Adams
#12. The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.
Alan Page
#13. As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
Luis Figo
#14. If you dont live, eat, breathe, football, then youre not a true football player. You just wear the jersey.
Sergio Ramos
#15. 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
#16. Whatever success I've had it is because I've tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach's duty is to avoid complicating matters.
Bill Belichick
#17. Pele is the greatest player in football history, and there would only be one Pele in the world.
Osvaldo Ardiles
#18. 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
#19. John Bond has brought in a young left-sided midfield player, who I guess will play on the left side of midfield.
Jimmy Armfield
#20. The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
Tom Brady
#21. Football is what you do, but it's not who you are. It's a big part of who you are. Part of who you are is you're a football player. It's your profession. It's a game you love to play. It's a game I love to play.
Andrew Luck
#22. High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.
Antonio Gates
#23. A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones.
Richard Preston
#24. For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world ... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.
Johan Cruijff
#25. What is your position at the company? Right back.
Jason McAteer
#26. My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.
Jacob Latimore
#27. As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.
Troy Polamalu
#28. 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
#29. If you were in the Brondby dressing room right now, which of the Liverpool players would you be looking at?
Ray Stubbs
#30. There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.
Adam Ross
#31. We can't replace Gary Speed - where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?
Bobby Robson
#32. I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
Shaquille O'Neal
#33. They didn't change positions, they just moved the players around.
Terry Venables
#34. It's none of our business, the sexual preference of people. So, I hope if someone's thinking about it, that if they do come out as gay and are a professional football player, and it makes them happy, and it makes their life easier, then I think they should do it.
Andrew Luck
#35. Though the legs of a football coach are never so active on the field of play during playing time, his mind is the best or worse player on the pitch!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#36. 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
#37. Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.
J.B. Priestley
#38. Concussion? How the hell can they tell? They're *football* players, for chrissakes!
Dennis Miller
#39. That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
Jamal Lewis
#40. I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.
Ron Atkinson
#41. That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex.
Johnny Weir
#42. I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.
Woody Hayes
#43. Supporters have every divine right to slag your players off when they're not winning games.
Dean Windass
#44. When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line.
Joe Greene
#45. I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.
Ricky Williams
#46. I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.
Hines Ward
#47. One or two of their players aren't getting any younger
Clive Tyldesley
#48. 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
#49. Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it's like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.
John Madden
#50. I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.
Robert Griffin III
#51. Systems don't win, players do.
Marv Levy
#52. The linesman flagged initially because he thought I was an Oldham player. Fair enough, I did have a replica shirt on - but I also have a big furry head.
Kevin Williams
#53. Shevchenko is the best attacker in Europe. He has a great deal of consistency and he just keeps scoring - which in Italian football is very difficult. He is a complete player, someone who can do everything on a football field
Andriy Shevchenko
#54. You just can't believe how quickly things happen in football and the way life turns. I went from being the bad guy, the worst player who gets all the criticism, to being the player who makes the difference and scores the important goals.
Luis Suarez
#55. If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something.
Ryan Leaf
#56. I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.
Roy Clark
#57. I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform.
Terrell Owens
#58. I'm definitely not a football player, but I can play one for a season.
Nikki Ziering
#59. No pro football player should die of heatstroke, any more than cholera, in this day and age if the most basic attention is paid and precautions are taken.
Sally Jenkins
#60. We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time.
Johan Cruijff
#61. I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.
Victor Cruz
#62. 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
#63. Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
Pele
#65. I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out,
Paula Deen
#66. If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
Ben Carson
#67. Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.
Johan Cruijff
#68. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It's been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I've enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work.
John Madden
#69. 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
#70. I wish you guys would just say, 'Michael Sam, how's the football going? How's training going?' But it is what it is. And I just wish you guys would see me as Michael Sam the football player instead of Michael Sam the gay football player.
Michael Sam
#71. I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.
Jerry Rice
#72. I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.
Alessandro Del Piero
#73. Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.
Bobby Charlton
#74. Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.
Marcus Du Sautoy
#75. Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.
Zinedine Zidane
#76. I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it.
Lionel Messi
#77. When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football.
Brent Musburger
#78. Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.
Ryan McPartlin
#79. 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
#80. My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
Gary Kemp
#81. It was our worst-ever day, the worst result in my history, ever. Even as a player I don't think I ever lost 6-1.
Alex Ferguson
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.
Tippi Hedren
#85. I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.
Pat McAfee
#86. You know, I started this process of being a football player and I'm going to make it to the NFL very soon and I plan on finishing that. And by 'finishing that,' I mean that I'm going to go out and be the best that I can be and put everything forth to make that happen.
Robert Griffin III
#87. As with every young player these days, Ronaldo is 18.
Alex Ferguson
#88. I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.
Darren Flutie
#89. I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
John Malkovich
#90. If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it.
Andy Gray
#91. Marshall was a pioneering player. As a threat in so many different aspects of football, he revolutionized the way in which the running back position was played. He was the player that I wanted to emulate.
Tiki Barber
#92. Some of their players are internationals; some play for their national team.
Steve McClaren
#93. He's one of the greatest players in the world, if not one of the greatest anywhere.
Sky Andrew
#94. You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.
Woody Hayes
#95. Humanity is in my heart. Do I suffer fools? No. Am I a stickler for my profession? Yes. I am a task master? Yes. My military background, football background, I'm a team player all the way, and I love winning.
Isaiah Washington
#96. I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
Action Bronson
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.
Ricky Williams
#100. Then maybe I'll hit on this sweaty, oversexed football player. Maybe we'll have meaningful discussions about politics and philosophy while we bump 'n grind. Ugh. Yeah, right.
Kody Keplinger
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