The Best Football Quotes

#1. I believe we have the best football coach in the country in Urban Meyer. I had the privilege of hiring him, as you know, and I think he is doing fabulous work.

Gordon Gee

#2. 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

#3. I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

Michel Patini

#4. When you play a team with as much attacking power as Barcelona and you restrict them to one shot on target in the second leg, you are doing something right. Have the best football team gone through? Yes. Have the best organised team gone through? No.

Jamie Redknapp

#5. I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats.

Ray Lewis

#6. As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

Hidetoshi Nakata

#7. The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior year. It was super-competitive. We lost in the semifinals my senior year, and it still haunts me.

Theo Rossi

#8. A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!

Delia Smith

#9. Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.

Chris Coleman

#10. I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!

Ian Holloway

#11. The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

Arsene Wenger

#12. If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be ... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

Tim Tebow

#13. God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

Heywood Broun

#14. Know the difference between famous and great.

Deacon Jones

#15. The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal.

Martin O'Neill

#16. The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.

Tony Dungy

#17. I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

Ricky Williams

#18. If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

Vince Lombardi

#19. We believe that African football is among the best in the world and very much characterized the Puma brand mentality, which is to win.

Jochen Zeitz

#20. Dracula and LSU Football are at their best after the sun goes down.

Beano Cook

#21. 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

#22. I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.

Gareth Bale

#23. It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.

Bernie Ecclestone

#24. Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

Wayne Rooney

#25. Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the best managers in football history.

Tim Howard

#26. I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.

Troy Polamalu

#27. Hmm, the best thing about being in the NFL? In America it's the No.1 sport; it's exciting, fun, so to me the best thing is the buzz that surrounds football on and off the field.

Reggie Bush

#28. 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

#29. I don't want people to say I'm a solid quarterback. I want to be the best, and I'll continually work until I get there.

Robert Griffin III

#30. At the end of the day, I'm a footballer who has played at some of the biggest football clubs in the world and played with some of the best players in the world.

David Beckham

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. Don't let this[football] be the best thing that ever happens in your life. Maybe it'll be the best sports event, but don't let it be the best thing. Make sure you're a better father than this today. Make sure you're a better husband than this today. Because this goes away ... It's a game.

Mack Brown

#34. They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.

Kevin Keegan

#35. I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - just crazy. I'm looking forward to thanking all the fans for inspiring me to go out there and play my best football each and every game.

Jerry Rice

#36. That's often the best place to beat a goalkeeper, isn't it, between the legs?

Clive Tyldesley

#37. I wanted to play football. It was what I did best at school and I'm pretty sporty, so that was the idea. Music was always a hobby, innit. I was more ahead with football.

Tinchy Stryder

#38. We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

Vicente Del Bosque

#39. For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human being with me. Talent isn't everything. You can have it from the cradle, but it is necessary to learn the trade to be the best.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#40. 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

#41. Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and 'play the game,' and these are the best of training for any game of life.

Robert Baden-Powell

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

Jermain Defoe

#43. I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.

Jerry Rice

#44. We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we're the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#45. Kenny wasn't the quickest of movers but he was 20 yards quicker than anybody else with his football brain and he would be in position before any defender knew what was happening. I've always said the best signing that Liverpool ever made was Kenny Dalglish.

Ronnie Moran

#46. I hated school ... I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.

Trent Reznor

#47. I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.

J. J. Watt

#48. Thierry is the best striker in the world. By far he's the best in the world. Thierry doesn't just score goals. Even when he's not having a good day he can make an important pass. He is a strong character. If things go wrong, he bounces straight back. His effect on the club is very big.

Patrick Vieira

#49. Holland I think is the best school to learn football. I think its a great league for that because it's not the strongest league in Europe.

Rafael Van Der Vaart

#50. Right now Von Miller is the best pass rusher in the world. He looks exactly like Derrick Thomas did in his heyday. He can absolutely destroy a football game.

Jon Gruden

#51. I believe that if you die trying to be your best, the world is still a better place.

Deacon Jones

#52. The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.

Michel Patini

#53. Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

Sven-Goran Eriksson

#54. The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything.

Troy Polamalu

#55. I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. In so many ways Scholes is my favourite.

Bobby Charlton

#56. Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.

Ronnie Lott

#57. Coming from bad results, you have more tension and you get more into the game, maybe. You never know which is best. I prefer to come from good results. You have more confidence and you believe you are doing things well. But in football everything can change very quickly.

Tito Vilanova

#58. I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for.

David Beckham

#59. Excluding nobody, I'm the best player in the National Football League.

Randy Moss

#60. Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

Lou Holtz

#61. You hear all this stuff about inner peace. Hey, there's nothing wrong with it, but I say, hit that line hard. Crack that book - Do your very best all the time and inner peace will take care of itself. The Deacon guarantees it.

Deacon Jones

#62. The best way to win is to play football

Josep Guardiola

#63. The Greatest" is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.

Mike Parry

#64. If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.

Xavi

#65. Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world.

Pele

#66. Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young or old, players or fans, rich or poor, the game makes everyone equal, stirs the imagination, makes people happy and makes them sad

Franz Beckenbauer

#67. When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a very good cricketer if I was a professional now. I think I would probably have been the best, in fact.

Usain Bolt

#68. I didn't play in the NFL, and I didn't play defensive line. But football, at the fundamental level, is football. It's about motivating people and getting the best out of them.

Brendan Daly

#69. 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

#70. I have the best of both worlds. I can talk about Taylor Swift during the day, and at night I can sit in front of the TV and watch Thursday night football. At some point, if the two converge and it becomes one job where I can still talk about both, that would be amazing.

Charissa Thompson

#71. I love football. I really love football, As far as I'm concerned, it's the second best thing in the world.

Joe Namath

#72. My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head ... I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

Jack Tatum

#73. You can't live on last year, you can't live on the year before. I can't bring in my 13 Pro Bowls in the locker room and say, look at me. No. That is gone. That is the best thing about the game of football is that everybody starts over.

Junior Seau

#74. The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work.

Knute Rockne

#75. He's a wizard with his feet and is blessed with a gift for scoring goals. His best quality is his speed while the ball is at his feet. He may be the fastest man ever to lace up a football boot. No defender in the world can keep up with him.

Lilian Thuram

#76. Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football.

Mario Balotelli

#77. I play football every Tuesday and Thursday early in the season. I am smart enough at the game. I score a lot of goals. I wouldn't be the best in the world but I am OK.

Usain Bolt

#78. We have demonstrated that we are the best, I'm also happy because everyone seems to enjoy our football, whether or not they are Barca fans. All over the world, I've heard people saying that they have been enchanted by us. This type of football deserves to be rewarded with titles.

Lionel Messi

#79. I think the best part of being gay is when you're done [with sex], you could turn over and talk about football.

Andrew Dice Clay

#80. Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen. There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me.

George Best

#81. Discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it. Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can.

John Madden

#82. I want to be remembered for my football and the pleasure I gave people.

George Best

#83. The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side.

John Elway

#84. Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks to do - just jam it up the middle.

Jon Gruden

#85. I have always had this necessity to win. When I played with my friends on the street, football or running, I always wanted to be the best,

Jorge Lorenzo

#86. So proud to be joining the best team in the world.

Michael Owen

#87. It's named the Lombardi Trophy for a reason, because we play and live in Titledown. We've got the best fans, and I can't wait to go home and see those fans and bring home the Lombardi Trophy.

Aaron Rodgers

#88. My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

Rickey Henderson

#89. I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still has to learn manners and respect.

Mario Balotelli

#90. There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.

Alan Sugar

#91. The best part of it for me is the idea that this group of young men, who came together and believed in themselves, bought the team concept completely, took the names off the back of the jerseys, checked the egos at the door.

Tom Coughlin

#92. We had probably our best ever Player of the Year Dance last week. You elected Dennis Wise as Player of the Year. Dennis accepted his award mimicking Vialli, whereupon Zola shouted 'Speak English', Dennis switched to his normal Cockney voice only for Zola to shout 'You're still not speaking English'.

Ken Bates

#93. Arizona was the best place. I like the competition in baseball, and the football program has been great for the past five years. I think I'll be playing as a freshman in both sports, and I think I can play with them.

Terry Vaughn

#94. The best art on a football field usually happens during kickoff returns.

Kevin Sampsell

#95. There is still a lot of football in me and I enjoy watching the players go out there and be the best players they can possibly be.

Jerry Rice

#96. Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

Robert M. Hutchins

#97. You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network.

Jay Leno

#98. It was one of the best goals I've seen this millenium.

Tony Gubba

#99. I think Philly is arguably the best sports town - football town - in America.

Ron Jaworski

#100. As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

Gareth Bale