Football Quotes

Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.

I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

I don't care about three years ago - I don't care about two years ago. I don't care about last year. The only thing I care about is this week.

Ultra high speed slow mo.

If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

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

Most players don't mind drug testing once they realize they don't have to study for it.

If we'd kept a clean sheet tonight we'd have won 1-0.

I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.

The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

Life is great, football is better.

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

It's headed away by John Clark, using his head.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.

I do not play football, I score goals.

When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

Mario Balotelli is like Marmite, you either love him or hate him. Me? I'm in between.

The thing about goalscorers is that they score goals.

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

Hey, we're like soldiers. Would you go to the Roman army and ask them if they thought they were going to win the battle? If I didn't think we could win, I wouldn't be here. I'd stay home and get fat.

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.

Ji-Sung Park is probably not as young as he was when he arrived at Old Trafford all those years ago.

My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.

I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

It's not about the long ball or the short ball, it's about the right ball.

What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange.

Alan Smith... very much a striker, by reputation... and by fact

When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

The world is my lobster.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal you need to think quick and play quick so its easier for you when you move to normal football.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

At Barca we trained every day with the ball. I hardly even took a step running without a ball at my feet.

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent.