Simple Football Quotes

#1. Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

Johan Cruijff

#2. Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.

Johan Cruijff

#3. His football does not seem to suffer by all of this going on around him. You look at his passing and he makes it look so simple. When he passes the ball, it always seems to go where he wants it to go. That sounds simple, but believe me, it is not.
(on David Beckham)

Graham Taylor

#4. Gaddafi's a great bloke. The media only show the bad things. I used to go round his house. His son's a super simple guy. All the Gaddafis were very down to earth.

Luis De Agustini

#5. Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner.

Johan Cruijff

#6. Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire.

Henry Winter

#7. Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.

Johan Cruijff

#8. Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

John Madden

#9. The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

Phil Abraham

#10. Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

Gary Lineker

#11. Football is simple, you're either on time, or you're too late. If you're too late then you have to leave earlier.

Johan Cruijff

#12. Football is about winning; it's that simple. You have to love what you do. If you're here for the money, than you don't belong here.

Vinny Testaverde

#13. Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.

Bill Shankly

#14. Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Bill Shankly

#15. If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.

J. R. Martinez

#16. I always suggest something fast and simple so you have more time to share with friends; and when we think of the ultimate food to serve for a football game, only one thing comes to mind - wings!

Marcus Samuelsson

#17. I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people.

Theo Rossi

#18. The best thing about football is that the rules are so simple. Anyone can play anywhere.

Jermain Defoe

#19. I wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play football, I wanted to show off. Not complicated in that sense, very natural; it just depends on how you want to show off.

Dylan Moran

#20. It gave the title to Manchester City - it's as simple as that.

Jose Mourinho

#21. It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.

Johan Cruijff

#22. It was easy to get wrapped up in some of the negative stuff, but obviously I chose not to. I didn't want to get in trouble and end up in prison where I can't play football. It was as simple as that.

Jermain Defoe

#23. The way I see it, everyone's a Geek of some sort. Football, films, music - it doesn't matter what the interest is; if you're fascinated by it, then you're a Geek. Simple as that.

Andy Robb

#24. Look, girls and boys are different. Girls like to be touched twenty times a day in a nonsexual way to feel good about themselves - that is why I tickle you and link arms with you - but boys think about sex, snogging and football, and also snogging whilst playing football. Simple.

Louise Rennison

#25. What it takes to win is simple, it's not easy.

Marv Levy

#26. Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

Merlin Olsen

#27. It took a while to find a passion for another career that was as strong as the passion that I had for football. Once I found it in acting, it was simple. Use the tools you were given from playing football and apply it to your new passion. I have done that through acting, producing and writing.

Maurice Hall