Football Quotes

#1. If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation. #Quote by Tom Landry

#2. Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers. #Quote by Merlin Olsen

#3. When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.' #Quote by Richard Seymour

#4. I have 2 weapons; my arms, my legs and my brain. #Quote by Michael Vick

#5. When the football is handed to the ball carrier, everyone counts on that guy gaining a down or getting into the end zone, and when he does the crowd goes wild. But those who carry another's burden, by helping out a weak or injured brother or sister, make a real difference and score points with God. #Quote by Jake Byrne

#6. The center snaps the ball to the quarterback!"
"No he doesn't!"
"He doesn't?"
"NO! Secretly, he's the quarterback for the other team! He keeps the ball!"
"A traitor!"
"Calvin breaks for the goal."
"Wheeee! He's at the 30... the 20... the 10! Nobody can catch him!"
"Nobody wants to! Your running toward your own goal!"
"Huh?!"
"When I learned that you were a spy, I switched goals. This is your goal and mine's hidden!"
"Hidden?!"
"You'll never find it in a million years!"
"I don't need to find it as a traitor to your team, crossing my goal counts as crossing your goal!"
"Ah, so you might think so..."
"In fact, I know so!"
"But the place I hid my goal is right on top of your goal, so the points will go to me!"
"But the fact is, I'm really a double agent! I'm on your team after all, which means you'll lose points if I cross your goal! Ha ha!"
"But I'm a traitor too, so I'm really on your team! I want you to cross my goal! The points will go to your team, which is really my team!"
"That would be true... if I were a football player!"
"You mean...?"
"I'm actually a badminton player disguised as a double-agent football player!!"
"And I'm actually a volleyball-croquet-polo player!"
"Sooner or later, all our games turn into CalvinBall."
"No cheating! #Quote by Bill Watterson

#7. One of the things about football fans in general is that they all think that they're the same. But they are not. This is a myth put about by people who wish that they were the same as the geezers. There are, in fact, a number of distinctive types of supporter, and although they all have a role to play, they are all very different indeed. #Quote by Dougie Brimson

#8. Manchester United breathe football. When I have to make hard decisions, I always listen to little boy inside me and what he wants. That little boy was screaming for United. #Quote by Robin Van Persie

#9. Our junior national teams feature increasing numbers of kids from immigrant backgrounds, but who have grown up in Germany. Their roots are elsewhere, but they feel German. They draw on two cultures, and I believe that's been a real and visible factor in the football we've been playing. One of the best and abiding images was Cacau, a Christian with Brazilian roots, celebrating a goal with Mesut Ozil, a Muslim from a Turkish background. Ozil jumped on to Cacau's shoulders, and they gazed up into the stands, both wearing Germany shirts. It was wonderfully symbolic. #Quote by Oliver Bierhoff

#10. If Earth had a soccer team, everyone on Earth would wear the same jersey to support it. There'd be no them, there'd only be us. #Quote by Peta Kelly

#11. All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you. #Quote by Deacon Jones

#12. I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running. #Quote by Danny Pudi

#13. If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide. #Quote by Steven Gerrard

#14. If you dont live, eat, breathe, football, then youre not a true football player. You just wear the jersey. #Quote by Sergio Ramos

#15. Women like men who play hockey, football, basketball and golf (okay, scratch golf). #Quote by L.J. Shen

#16. Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree. #Quote by Jorge Valdano

#17. As a young man God blessed me with a special talent to throw a football. #Quote by Dan Marino

#18. I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career. #Quote by Darren Flutie

#19. It's an enemy that I can't allow to wound me a second time. It's already done enough damage: most of it hidden far from the surface. #Quote by Andrea Pirlo

#20. Deaner ran down to the barrier separating the crowd from the pitch, and eventually persuaded the stewards that he had a part to play in the unfolding drama. (Anyone who has ever attempted to talk to a steward at a Premiership football ground will recognize that, whatever else during the afternoon required divine intervention, Deaner's success in getting on to the White Hart Lane turf really was a miracle.) #Quote by Nick Hornby

#21. Football's all about yesterday, it's all about now #Quote by Paul Merson

#22. I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey. #Quote by Mick McCarthy

#23. In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it. #Quote by John Madden

#24. When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not. #Quote by Johan Cruijff

#25. My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else. #Quote by Herschel Walker

#26. You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport. #Quote by Jerry Rice

#27. I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation. #Quote by Bob Devaney

#28. I want to win football games. #Quote by Victor Cruz

#29. All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week. #Quote by Duffy Daugherty

#30. I don't think about one trick or the other, they just happen. #Quote by Cristiano Ronaldo

#31. When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very emotional when I think about the humiliation that I've suffered playing football. #Quote by Marta

#32. Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win. #Quote by Lionel Messi

#33. McCarthy shakes his head in agreement with the referee. #Quote by Martin Tyler

#34. When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260. #Quote by Bill Fagerbakke

#35. Nothing in life that is of value comes easy. If good things came easily then the value would be diminished. When we have a vested interest, when we give everything we have, then, and only then are those good times valuable. #Quote by George M. Gilbert

#36. You need to be able to work with people. Especially in football, it is not a QB's game ... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team. #Quote by Joe Montana

#37. Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level. #Quote by Terry Bradshaw

#38. Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that. #Quote by Parminder Nagra

#39. Blaine, basketball, football and baseball are for commoners, the lower ninety-nine percent. We need our own thing to play when we're not sitting around talking about our family's money. You're right Sterling, How about a game called lacrosse? It's a cross between an actual sport and just being fancy like la-dee-da. That's why we call it lacrosse. We could wear polo shirts…. #Quote by Gisele Walko

#40. Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game. #Quote by Don Yaeger

#41. My favorite sport is football. I'm a die hard Steelers fan. Favorite players were Hines Ward and Greg Lloyd. #Quote by Anthony Jeselnik

#42. The number of fighters that are ISIS fighters wouldn't fill up most American football stadiums. This is not a large group of individuals, but they're tenacious, and they rule with absolute terror. #Quote by James Lankford

#43. If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing. #Quote by Bob Costas

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

#45. If you're a pro coach, NFL stands for 'Not for long. #Quote by Jerry Glanville

#46. At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third. #Quote by Rio Ferdinand

#47. What the hell, just what the hell was wrong with how I looked today? Why does he care if I wear eye-black like the football team? It's my face. It's my body. I can dress it up or down however I want. Why is that such a hard concept for guys to accept? #Quote by Patty Blount

#48. I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough. #Quote by Jim Brown

#49. Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths. #Quote by Frank Broyles

#50. The scoreboard can't make you a loser. If you walk off the field with your head up, you don't lose. You don't hang your head for nobody. People in the stands think you're the greatest or the worst - their opinion doesn't make a difference. The only opinion that makes any difference is your own opinion of yourself. #Quote by Dan Marino

#51. All I know of morality I learned from football #Quote by Albert Camus

#52. I have a soft side that I like people to see. I'm not mean. That's just football. That's just the way you've got to go. You can't go into a game that is that violent and be soft. You can't be that way. #Quote by Brandon Jacobs

#53. Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business. #Quote by Simon Kuper

#54. Winning is not everything it is the only thing #Quote by Vince Lombardi

#55. We might have the worst bunch of guys together we've ever seen as a football team. I don't know what anybody else has, but I'd trade mine with anybody, sight unseen. #Quote by Buddy Ryan

#56. I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game. #Quote by Tony Romo

#57. Maggie sipped her drink with the cat draped across her lap and the dog curled at her feet. The only sounds in the room were the crackling of the fire and Dan Sean's shallow snores. There were no CD's to play, no radio, no television. There was nothing. She was just sitting there in silence, getting drunk. It occurred to her that a person's first drunken experience shoud be in the basement of a friend's house, in a forest preserve, behind the bleachers of a football field. Certainly not in the company of a sleeping ninety-nine-year-old man. She giggled a little and wondered what Uncle Kevin would make of it. "Hot port?" he would say. "Very impressive, Mags. I would have thought you'd be more of a wine cooler type of girl. #Quote by Jessie Ann Foley

#58. Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it. #Quote by Roger Milla

#59. We don't want to tell our dreams. We want to show them #Quote by Cristiano Ronaldo

#60. If I were a girl, I'd be sucking every cock I could get my mouth on," Will said. "Fuck, I'd take on the whole football team at one time."
Burke ran his hand through Will's hair. "Careful," he said. "You don't want to get a reputation as a bad girl. No one will marry you, then. #Quote by Michael Thomas Ford

#61. I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game. #Quote by Cory Monteith

#62. Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. #Quote by Archibald MacLeish

#63. People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog! #Quote by Sophia Bush

#64. Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment. #Quote by Mariah Nelson

#65. Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record. #Quote by Pete Rozelle

#66. These so-called big stars are people we are supposed to be looking up to. Well they are weak and soft. Priorities have changed in football and they are being dictated to by their wives. #Quote by Roy Keane

#67. Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up. #Quote by Knute Rockne

#68. Anyone who takes drugs should be hammered. #Quote by Andy Gray

#69. Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here. #Quote by John Motson

#70. I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them. #Quote by Ian Rush

#71. Football is not a job, but my best therapy #Quote by Tito Vilanova

#72. It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players. #Quote by Red Smith

#73. Those fuckers," Janice said, meaning the football players, "they get me doing hate Kegels. #Quote by William Gibson

#74. The caliber of play in professional football compared to college is better and everybody knows it. They don't realize how much better. What a giant leap forward in the ability of talent level, the speed, and even the grasp of what you are trying to do. There is no other distractions before the players. #Quote by Marv Levy

#75. In Texas, two things are cherished above all else- football and gossip. #Quote by Cora Carmack

#76. The Seahawks defense has to go balls deep to win this game. #Quote by Jon Gruden

#77. We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football #Quote by Arsene Wenger

#78. They looked like linebackers on a prison football team, whose idea of commincation was to smash into something at full speed, preferably another person. #Quote by John Verdon

#79. Harry [Redknapp] is going to be literally, literally pulling his hair out. #Quote by John Scales

#80. It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.' #Quote by Matt Stone

#81. I drummed my fingers on the steering wheel as I looked around the empty lot. I wavered on getting out when a giant lightning bolt painted a jagged streak across the rainy lavender-gray sky. Minutes passed and still he didn't come out of the Three Hundreds' building.

Damn it. Before I could talk myself out of it, I jumped out of the car, cursing at myself for not carrying an umbrella for about the billionth time and for not having waterproof shoes, and ran through the parking lot, straight through the double doors. As I stomped my feet on the mat, I looked around the lobby for the big guy. A woman behind the front desk raised her eyebrows at me curiously. "Can I help you with something?" she asked.

"Have you seen Aiden?"

"Aiden?"

Were there really that many Aidens? "Graves."

"Can I ask what you need him for?"

I bit the inside of my cheek and smiled at the woman who didn't know me and, therefore, didn't have an idea that I knew Aiden. "I'm here to pick him up."

It was obvious she didn't know what to make of me. I didn't exactly look like pro-football player girlfriend material in that moment, much less anything else. I'd opted not to put on any makeup since I hadn't planned on leaving the house. Or real pants. Or even a shirt with the sleeves intact. I had cut-off shorts and a baggy T-shirt with sleeves that I'd taken scissors to. Plus the rain outside hadn't done my hair any justice. It looked like a #Quote by Mariana Zapata

#82. I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football. #Quote by Alan Shearer

#83. The only member of the team nobody liked was our 6 o'clock sports guy, a fellow named Howard Cosell. "Monday Night Football" was just getting started and Howard was annoyed at having to be on the same news with mere local personalities, whom he would attack on the air. This was a mistake in the case of Roger Grimsby who was a lot sharper and even more devastating than Cosell, in his own way. I remember one night, at the end of his report, Howard went into a sarcastic putdown of Grimsby that lasted for what seemed like two minutes. Finally, when Howard was finished, the camera switched to Grimsby who was sitting there with his eyes closed, snoring. #Quote by Jim Bouton

#84. I'm very close in age to my older brother, and we had a field at the end of the road where we could run around, climb trees, play football. #Quote by James Bay

#85. I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield. Even if one didn't know from concrete examples (the 1936 Olympic Games, for instance) that international sporting contests lead to orgies of hatred, one could deduce it from general principles ... There cannot be much doubt that the whole thing is bound up with the rise of nationalism - that is, with the lunatic modern habit of identifying oneself with large power units and seeing everything in terms of competitive prestige. #Quote by George Orwell

#86. In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it. #Quote by Graeme Le Saux

#87. Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town. #Quote by Herschel Walker

#88. There's no end to the stoppage of this drama #Quote by Alan Parry

#89. What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal. #Quote by Jimmy Hill

#90. The football is the worstes game, you are famous because you are okay... but after few years you become 30 or 40 who knows?!
ANd you are out of that sport, alone in the world you are not anymore famous. You are one of them, but after all who has played football knows that you should be an idiot to play that sport, good at football worst in life. But a lot of these days are like them, not like these people, but like them!? #Quote by Deyth Banger

#91. I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life. #Quote by Ben Roethlisberger

#92. Do you remember when we played in Spain in the Anglo-Italian Cup? #Quote by Shaun Newton

#93. The war seemed as far away as the football games of someone else's college. #Quote by Ernest Hemingway,

#94. When you lay down a proposition which is forthwith controverted, it is of course optional with you to take up the cudgels in its defence. If you are deeply convinced of its truth, you will perhaps be content to leave it to take care of itself; or, at all events, you will not go out of your way to push its fortunes; for you will reflect that in the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons. In the long run, we say; it will meanwhile cost you an occasional pang to see your cherished theory turned into a football by the critics. A football is not, as such, a very respectable object, and the more numerous the players, the more ridiculous it becomes. Unless, therefore, you are very confident of your ability to rescue it from the chaos of kicks, you will best consult its interests by not mingling in the game. #Quote by Henry James

#95. I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing ... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked. #Quote by Manny Montana

#96. Football hooligans? Well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start. #Quote by Matt Busby

#97. I'm not a big power-and-strength guy, but I have a lot of balance, and I can take hits and stay on my feet. I control myself real good, shift my weight, and run real low. I do things that people haven't seen some of the running backs in the league do. #Quote by Marshall Faulk

#98. In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on. #Quote by Kevin McKidd

#99. Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for. #Quote by Ernie Davis

#100. The problem at Wimbledon seems to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency. #Quote by Joe Kinnear

#101. Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited. #Quote by Junior Seau

#102. There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more. #Quote by Woody Hayes

#103. If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball. #Quote by Sam Rutigliano

#104. Brendan's chihuahua doesn't do that. During the week it sleeps, eats and trains a little bit. So I have to say his chihuahua is a privileged one. #Quote by Jose Mourinho

#105. Italians have a very closed life. Football is all their life is. #Quote by Gianfranco Zola

#106. While I'm more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance. #Quote by Marcus Samuelsson

#107. Don Alfredo leaves us, but his memory will last forever in our hearts. Legends never die. Thanks for everything Maestro. #Quote by Cristiano Ronaldo

#108. I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying. #Quote by Josh Hutcherson

#109. I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football
too many
but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here. #Quote by Ricky Williams

#110. Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda. She was an incredibly comfortable person to be around, partly because she had a mind so broad it could accommodate three football fields and a bowling alley. #Quote by Terry Pratchett

#111. Bruno opened his eyes in wonder at the things he saw. In his imagination he had tough that all the huts were full of happy families, some of whom sat outside on rocking chairs in the evening and told stories about how things were so much better when they were children and they'd had nowadays. He thought that all the boys and girls who lived there would be in different groups, playing tennis or football, skipping and drawing out squares for hopscotch on the ground.
As it turned out, all the things he thought might be there-wern't.' -The boy in the striped Pajamas #Quote by John Boyne

#112. She was quivering with self-importance, like a small enraged football. #Quote by Terry Pratchett

#113. When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education. #Quote by Jim Brown

#114. So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this. #Quote by Steve Jobs

#115. When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game. #Quote by Alan Hansen

#116. Thursday Night Football Live Stream http://imgur.com/VPgQRun #Quote by Joe Smith

#117. I wouldn't trust Newcastle's back five to protect my garden gnomes from squirrels. #Quote by Jonathan Pearce

#118. You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him! #Quote by Anna Kendrick

#119. If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team. #Quote by Larry Fitzgerald

#120. Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing. #Quote by Deacon Jones

#121. I'm blessed to have a little bit of success in football. #Quote by Tim Tebow

#122. And now with Argentina out, they will be on the plane home with France #Quote by Clive Tyldesley

#123. Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much. #Quote by Michael Wilbon

#124. Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing. #Quote by Peyton Manning

#125. It is, as calls to arms go, straightforward. Crystal clear. And if you aren't looking forward to Spurs and Kazan, to Southampton and Bournemouth, if that just doesn't get you going, wanting to be emotional, unashamedly emotional, optimistic, passionate in a way that outsiders love to mock and our own meek minded souls call 'embarrassing' then you know what? There's the door. There is the door, and you can walk through it, and both you and us will be happier for that. Because, for ninety minutes every few days, this fella represents Liverpool, eleven lads wearing Red represent Liverpool and we represent Liverpool. Wherever we are on globe, with an even greater responsibility if we are in the stadium. #Quote by Neil Atkinson

#126. Is he ever going to learn? #Quote by Graham Taylor

#127. Bobby Tom told me he's not afraid of the Chargers' defense."
"Bobby Tom'll tell you he's not afraid of nuclear war, so I wouldn't put too much stock in his opinion. #Quote by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#128. In the game of football, you least complain, shout, talk or blame your opponents or the referee continuously throughout the game just because of your opponents opposition, strength or antics to ensure that you lose focus and lose the game; winning the game is your true aim. Such is life! You must do all you ought to do to score your goals notwithstanding the oppositions and how life will play the game of life with you! Be a goal getter! #Quote by Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#129. Do you think she'll want to later? Rosalind, I mean, not Aunt Claire. I mean, I'm sure Aunt Claire could do football drills if she wanted to, but I'd rather have Ros - I mean ... Tommy had trailed off into an embarrassed silence. Skye #Quote by Jeanne Birdsall

#130. The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this. #Quote by Frank Leahy

#131. There's no way running on a beach or at some high school playground that you're going to get in football shape like you do when you practice. #Quote by Steve Mariucci

#132. What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange. #Quote by Michel Patini

#133. People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want to enjoy themselves and live life to the full. They work all week, pick their wages up at the end of the week and they spend it over a weekend by having a good time and watching the football. That's our life. #Quote by Alan Shearer

#134. Of course I am for stopping violence against women. It is unfortunate that the Senate Democrats are making the current re-authorization of Violence Against Women bill into a political football. The Republicans are offering an improved version of the reauthorization bill and I want to review it. #Quote by Sarah Steelman

#135. What makes the engine go?
Desire, desire, desire. #Quote by Stanley Kunitz

#136. After the game, I'm a completely different person. I drink some beers with friends and try to get my mind completely off football. #Quote by Jeremy Shockey

#137. Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing. #Quote by Leigh Steinberg

#138. Football's all about opinions, all of them different, whether from a top analyst or a man in a bunnet, and some folk are just never going to like you. #Quote by Charlie Adam

#139. 'Monday Night Football' is a competitor to 'Monday Night Raw.' #Quote by Stephanie McMahon

#140. I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life. #Quote by Ian Rush

#141. I'll tell you about Ryder. He's the star quarter back of our Division 1A state championship football team. Top student in our class, he doesn't even have to work for it. He plays the piano like some kind of freaking prodigy, and I wouldn't be surprised if he composed sonatas or something in his spare time.
Oh, and did I mention that he's gorgeous? Of course he is. Six foot four, two hundred ten pounds of swoon-worthy good looks. Spiky dark hair, chocolate brown eyes, and full-on dimples. #Quote by Kristi Cook

#142. It will be a shame if either side lose, and that applies to both sides. #Quote by Jock Brown

#143. I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it. #Quote by Nick Hornby

#144. Football is all about sentiment; if it weren't then we'd all support Manchester United. #Quote by Mark O'Brien

#145. I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success. #Quote by Greg Akcelrod

#146. As time goes on you're getting more knowledge of your playbook and football, and you just pick it up a lot easier. Lining up everywhere is just second nature to me now. #Quote by Rob Gronkowski

#147. You were only a goalkeeper. #Quote by Diego Maradona

#148. Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important. #Quote by Bill Shankly

#149. And I played football so I knocked a few heads around there, but nothing out of the ordinary. I played baseball too but that's not a contact sport.' No way he was going to mention the endless sex – which was a contact sport. #Quote by C.C. Gibbs

#150. When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art. #Quote by Bruno Tonioli

#151. I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball. #Quote by Roy Keane

#152. In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves. #Quote by Bill Shankly

#153. I liken actors and movies and TV shows to football teams. We all have our favorite ones. #Quote by Kristoffer Polaha

#154. In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing? #Quote by Barry Sanders

#155. Your own politicians make our Dr. Goebbels look like a child playing with picture books in a kindergarten. They speak of morality while they douse screaming children and old women in burning napalm. Your draft-resisters are called cowards and 'peaceniks.' For refusing to follow orders they are either put in jails or scourged from the country. Those who demonstrate against this country's unfortunate Asian adventure are clubbed down in the streets. The GI soldiers who kill the innocent are decorated by Presidents, welcomed home from the bayoneting of children and the burning of hospitals with parades and bunting. They are given dinners, Keys to the City, free tickets to pro football games." He toasted his glass in Todd's direction. "Only those who lose are tried as war criminals for following orders and directives. #Quote by Stephen King

#156. Statistically, I'd say there are about as many gay figure skaters as there are gay football players. The majority are straight. There are just those few exceptions, and those are the ones who have gotten picked on and followed over the years. #Quote by Johnny Weir

#157. The one thing that I really dislike, is being alone. #Quote by Cristiano Ronaldo

#158. Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing. #Quote by Alan Shearer

#159. I love football. #Quote by Kaitlin Olson

#160. What happened in the United changing room has happened to me 50 times in my career. I have kicked bottles of mineral water, bags and shoes but I never hit a player. It's a question of technique, and the Scots must have a better technique. #Quote by Marcello Lippi

#161. when a football player steps on a field, he should do it all. I realize a great running back doesn't like to play defense, but life isn't based on what you like. If everyone did what he liked to do, we'd be in real trouble. #Quote by Brian Curtis

#162. People are paralyzed on a football field. People die. You just never know when it's going to be your last moment. I was the kind of guy who would never talk to my wife on game day. Now I'm the guy who's like, 'I love you.' I want my children to know I love them because I don't know what's going to happen out there. #Quote by Troy Polamalu

#163. The reality, ... is that I need to win games of football. That's where the pressure and the sleepless nights come from. There's a fantasy pressure with this job but none of that matters. I need to make this team into a good unit, need to take it forward, give it a change of pace, need to get it younger and to use the experience of the lads we've got here. I need Lennon and Sutton and people like that to go and show how you handle being a Celtic player. #Quote by Gordon Strachan

#164. Being Southern isn't talking with an accent...or rocking on a porch while drinking sweet tea, or knowing how to tell a good story. It's how you're brought up -- with Southerners, family (blood kin or not) is sacred; you respect others and are polite nearly to a fault; you always know your place but are fierce about your beliefs. And food along with college football -- is darn near a religion. #Quote by Jan Norris

#165. The Stadium

Have you ever entered an empty stadium? Try it. Stand in the middle of the field and listen. There is nothing less empty than an empty stadium. There is nothing less mute than stands bereft of spectators.

At Wembley, shouts from the 1966 World Cup, which England won, still resound, and if you listen very closely you can hear groans from 1953 when England fell to the Hungarians. Montevideo's Centenario Stadium sighs with nostalgia for the glory days of Uruguayan soccer. Maracanã is still crying over Brazil's 1950 World Cup defeat. At Bombonera in Buenos Aires, drums boom from half a century ago. From the depths of Azteca Stadium, you can hear the ceremonial chants of the ancient Mexican ball game. The concrete terraces of Camp Nou in Barcelona speak Catalan, and the stands of San Mamés in Bilbao talk in Basque. In Milan, the ghosts of Giuseppe Meazza scores goals that shake the stadium bearing his name. The final match of the 1974 World Cup, won by Germany, is played day after day and night after night at Munich's Olympic Stadium. King Fahd Stadium in Saudi Arabia has marble and gold boxes and carpeted stands, but it has no memory or much of anything to say. #Quote by Eduardo Galeano

#166. One thing I can say about the Dallas Cowboys: They have always had talent around them. They have been one of the most talented football teams in all of football. #Quote by Emmitt Smith

#167. When the passer's back foot hit the ground on his setup, I wanted the ball gone. If no one was open, if he had to buy time, I wanted him to bounce in place. And then I only wanted him scrambling as a last resort. When you bounce, you maintain your balance. When you start moving, you create an unnatural position for yourself. I want everything to be natural. #Quote by Sid Gillman

#168. I think success is the biggest challenge you have to handle in the National Football League; that's something we talk about a lot. #Quote by Mike McCarthy

#169. Ken Bates is a football cretin. #Quote by Martin O'Neill

#170. I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger. #Quote by Terry Bradshaw

#171. I mean, Dad was one of these people who simply could not lose, you know? He could not stand it when a kid was beating him. He would go crazy when the child came to that moment, which, you know, you have to come to - I mean, Dad played Old Maids like he played football. He just simply had to win every single thing every single time. #Quote by Terry Gross

#172. I was on the computer the other day and typed my name into Google. Everything on there was bad. I hope in a few years there might be something there about me playing football. #Quote by Jake Friend

#173. My mind went back to Bambi. If there were too many deer, then hunters were given the opportunity to shoot them. Cheating husbands were also a problem in the balance of nature, and there were far too many of them. Why couldn't there be open
season on cheating husbands? Deceived wives could purchase a gun, take lessons, and receive a cheating-husband hunting license complete with a big red A label to tie to the man's zipper after the kill. Open season could be scheduled months in advance to give the husbands a fighting chance. They could hide in refuges or stay home and take their chances at being shot through the living room window as they watched Monday Night Football. #Quote by Carolyn Brown

#174. He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs; another poured ice-white foam so thick that Harry thought it would have supported his weight if he'd cared to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds hovering over the surface of the water. Harry amused himself for a while turning the taps on and off, particularly enjoying the effect of one whose jet bounced off the surface of the water in large arcs. #Quote by J.K. Rowling

#175. Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy. #Quote by Rod Liddle

#176. Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology. #Quote by Vince Lombardi

#177. I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary. #Quote by John Legend

#178. There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League. #Quote by George Vecsey

#179. I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL. #Quote by Bill Parcells

#180. Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person. #Quote by Ricky Williams

#181. It's headed away by John Clark, using his head. #Quote by Derek Rae

#182. Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different. #Quote by Tom Sizemore

#183. College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity. #Quote by H.L. Mencken

#184. I can't believe anyone can have played the game of football as well as Messi. #Quote by Michael Owen

#185. I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that. #Quote by Robert Griffin III

#186. I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love. #Quote by Frank Lampard

#187. I'm comfortable with that [a week's practice]. I've had numerous weeks of working on it, and a lot of it has been football specific. One week of practice actually, one week of official practice and I'll be more than comfortable. #Quote by Anquan Boldin

#188. I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama. #Quote by Dennis Quaid

#189. Fourth quarter field goals often wins games; first quarter field goals often lose them. #Quote by R.A. Mathis

#190. In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale. #Quote by John Lyall

#191. There's some people on the pitch ... they think it's all over ... it is now! #Quote by Kenneth Wolstenholme

#192. Maybe creatures that are not like each other are supposed to hurt each other to find out which one is stronger, so that the stronger one can take the things it wants. A competition. A game. War! Sex! Football! #Quote by Isaac Marion

#193. If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home. #Quote by Bear Bryant

#194. Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I'm fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It's a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I'm fortunate that people like it, and that motivates me even more. #Quote by Ronaldinho

#195. The ageless Teddy Sheringham, 37 now ... #Quote by Tony Gubba

#196. I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense. #Quote by Taylor Lautner

#197. Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner. #Quote by Don Shula

#198. I've been consistent in patches this season. #Quote by Theo Walcott

#199. There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose. #Quote by Bobby Robson

#200. You can play and try to get focused for that time, but still the reality of that whole situation is once that game is over you still have to be confronted with what's going on. I think that's where the senior leadership on your football team has to come. They have to understand that we have a responsibility to reach our goals and that's to win the championship. #Quote by Pete Richardson