Football Quotes

I had this urge to play the game of football because so many people said I couldn't do it.

Expect rejection, but expect even more strongly to overcome it.

It's too easy to blame other people in football.

What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win. That is the most important thing.

A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate.

Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.

Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.

I think everyone should pursue their dreams. Whether you want to play football, act, sing, become a writer or whatever you have burning inside you as you’re growing up, you should pursue it.

He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.

The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.

Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.

Every day is not perfect.

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.

I'd rather play lacrosse six days a week and football on the seventh.

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: 'I can't be f****** signing that'.

Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.

We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this.

Dance with the one who brung ya.

Football without fans is nothing.

Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me.

He had an eternity to play that ball... but he took too long over it.

I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.

Never make a major decision based solely on money.

I tried to nutmeg him. It never came off and he gave me a slap on the back of the head and told me to start behaving

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

Pressue is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

You've got a goal in life. I've got a goal. Now all we need is a football team.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.

I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

The little boy inside me was screaming 'Manchester United'. United breathes football... the perfect match for me.

No matter what happens on the football field it doesn't change the kind of person I am.

You have to feel you're the best at what you do. You don't have to come out and say it. But you have to know it within yourself.

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.

I love football. Love it. Love it. I think it's the last bastion of hope for toughness in America in men, in males.

Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium.

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

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.

I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle.

I don't want records. I want a Super Bowl ring.

It does not make a goalkeeper look good and, after it, I did not want to celebrate out of respect for him.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

Running is for animals. You need a brain and a ball for football.