Football Quotes - page 5

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. (Vince Lombardi)
Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. View quote
Vince Lombardi
It's very sad that Tanzania is a poor football country. If elected, I promise to put this country on the world football map. I will make sure we produce our own Okochas, El Hadji Dioufs and Zinedine Zidanes here. View quote
Jakaya Kikwete
I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream. View quote
Lionel Messi
I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy. View quote
Lionel Messi
Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures. View quote
Alessandro Del Piero
College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary. View quote
José Mourinho
If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
But I am very confident that David Pleat, the director of football or whatever his title is now days - I am very confident that he, with all his media commitments around the world, knows the market place. View quote
Billy Davies
That life is chemistry is true but boring, like saying that football is physics. (Matt Ridley)
In chess or in football, the tactic that proves most effective is soon the one that people learn easily to block. Every innovation in attack is soon countered by another in defence. View quote
Matt Ridley
Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football. View quote
Lawrence Taylor
We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff'. View quote
Michael Morpurgo
To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys. View quote
Melissa McCarthy
For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time. View quote
Michel Patini
For me, football is just a game, not a drama. View quote
Michel Patini
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. View quote
Novak Djokovic
I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career. View quote
Novak Djokovic
The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon. Being a Republican, I'm backing Hillary Clinton. Because she could lose. The reason is not that she's a woman. The reason is that she's the particular woman who taught the 4th grade class that every man in America wished he were dead in. Hillary Clinton is Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown. Hillary Clinton is 'America's ex-wife. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
We heard the army before we saw it. The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas. (Rick Riordan)
The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football. View quote
Robert Carlyle
Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks. View quote
Ruud Gullit
Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football. View quote
Ruud Gullit
Politics and football don't mix. View quote
Ruud Gullit