Football Quotes - page 3

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. (Tom Landry)
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite. View quote
Verne Troyer
If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people. View quote
William Petersen
Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. ‘Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese. View quote
Pelé
I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players. View quote
Pelé
Football is like chess, only without the dice. View quote
Lukas Podolski
The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access TV station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself. View quote
Louis C.K.
So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win. View quote
Colin Powell
If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. View quote
Eric Cantona
I feel close to the rebelliousness and vigour of the youth here. Perhaps time will separate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music. View quote
Eric Cantona
When I was playing football I never enjoyed it that much, I was never happy. If I scored two goals, I wanted a third, I always wanted more. Now it's all over I can look back with satisfaction, but I never felt that way when I was playing. (Gabriel Batistuta)
Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football. View quote
Johan Cruyff
For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together. View quote
Éamon de Valera
I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends. View quote
Dennis Bergkamp
In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football. View quote
Dennis Bergkamp
I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston. View quote
Kenny Dalglish
Football gives the African people hope, a true motivation for their life. View quote
Marcel Desailly
18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK." View quote
Joe Satriani
The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life. View quote
Bill Shankly
Bod said, "I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want," he said, and then he paused, and thought. "I want everything." View quote
Neil Gaiman
That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice. (Garth Brooks)
I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks. View quote
Alan Sillitoe
Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers. He hates music, football and sex, in no particular order, and he is no fun at all. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair. View quote
André Maurois
I'd say I was a tomboy... I took wood chop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and [was] very unaware of anything girly for a long time. View quote
Marisa Miller