Football Quotes

As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.

Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.

Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary.

Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts.

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

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

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

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Rapport? You mean like, You'll run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can?

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

The crowd...a cacophony of colour

Sitting eating sushi in the city, incredibly chilled out reading Nietzsche.

If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.

That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on.

I bet you like sitting at red lights.

The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.

Best scene in college football is at LSU on a Saturday night.

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.

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.

How lucky I was to have played for the Pittsburgh Steelers fans. A proud, hard-working people, who loves their football, and their players.

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.

Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.

So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

Arsenal could have happened, as everybody knows, but I would not do a trial. Who do you think regrets that more - Arsene Wenger or Zlatan?

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.

College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night.

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Louisiana has a heritage of great players that play their high school football within the boundaries of Louisiana.

I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark.

Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.

When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

There’s only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you’re not there, you’re either too early or too late.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.