Football Quotes

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

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

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

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

I have never asked to be the highest-paid coach in football. I have never asked to be paid like a Super Bowl-winning coach. I have never asked for more power.

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

Give me a 6 pack, half-hour of rest and lets go play them again - We can beat them.

The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life.

It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.

I like to watch good football so I like to watch good players. I like Cristiano Ronaldo, Andres Iniesta, Xavi and Wayne Rooney.

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.

I've never played for a draw in my life.

The biggest regret of my whole football career was leaving White Hart Lane in 1970.....my interest in football weakened after that. I was heartbroken

Simply put, success in LSU football is essential for the success of Louisiana State University.

Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.

I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.

I've seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentinian football and his name is Messi... He's a leader and is offering classes in beautiful football.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

You can do more, you can always do more.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.

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.

My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

Don't cuss. Don't argue with the officials. And don't lose the game.

Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales.

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree.

Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.

All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.

Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.

There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.

I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

What you do should speak so loudly that no one will hear what you say.

If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Most goals are scored between the posts.