Football Quotes

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. (Bill Shankly)
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. View quote
Erma Bombeck
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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. View quote
Frank Zappa
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. View quote
Eugene McCarthy
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. View quote
George Will
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing. View quote
Bill Shankly
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
All that I know of Morality and obligations I owe to football. View quote
Albert Camus
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. View quote
John Steinbeck
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying. (Charles Krauthammer)
A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my life, so maybe I'll come back to it in some sort of way. View quote
Dennis Bergkamp
It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager. View quote
Kenny Dalglish
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. View quote
George Santayana
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. View quote
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper. View quote
Björk
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Sometimes in football you have to score goals. View quote
Thierry Henry
I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem. View quote
Rahul Dravid
A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful. (Arsène Wenger)
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. View quote
Vince Lombardi
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. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. View quote
Dave Barry
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. View quote
José Mourinho