Football Quotes - page 55

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football. (Arsène Wenger)
The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money. View quote
Arsène Wenger
This guy should never play football again. What is he doing on the football pitch? View quote
Arsène Wenger
No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered. View quote
Rio Ferdinand
FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal. View quote
Sepp Blatter
The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world. View quote
Sepp Blatter
It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact. View quote
Sepp Blatter
What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it. View quote
Sepp Blatter
Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team? View quote
Sepp Blatter
Yes, in general, I think there is too much club football on TV. View quote
Sepp Blatter
Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football. (Sepp Blatter)
There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa. View quote
Sepp Blatter
As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools. View quote
Sepp Blatter
I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football. View quote
Alan Shearer
And because he didn't do it by football season, we are ready to throw him out on the street and bring back the guys who messed it up just two years ago. That's a little too impatient. View quote
Bill Maher
In New York now, they have Harvey Milk High School for gay students. They don't have much of a football team, but the half-time show . . . View quote
Bill Maher
Driving to the studio today, I passed a big football field. I had to look twice before I realized that the stands were jammed with people...thousands of them. I looked out on the playing field, and there wasn't a soul. And then I realized that this crowd were war prisoners. I went into the field, and there was a quiet, docile atmosphere about the place...the sort of atmosphere you get in an American football crowd between halves. Germans of every description sat quietly, chatting to their neighbors and doing nothing in particular. Bored British sentries stood around looking like ushers equipped with Tommy guns. It was that quiet. View quote
Bill Downs
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. View quote
John Leonard
There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God. View quote
Theodore Hesburgh
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. View quote
Andrew Motion
It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure. (Craig Brown)
Football ... is a ballet of wondrous beauty choreographed by highly skilled performers, dramatising the conflict between good and evil that takes place in every heart. And, at the same time it reflects the impatient immediacy of modern society in that success breeds immortality, while the procurement of second place begets anonymity. View quote
Damien Richardson
There is inherent in every true football supporter a reservoir of natural optimism. This inner holding pond of hope springs eternal, and is the safety valve that regulates the emotional turbulence synonymous with professional football. It mollifies the annual agitation and soothes the savage beast of frustration. Without this optimistic dimension the personality of the authentic fan is incomplete. View quote
Damien Richardson
Modern football is akin to a turbulent sea. Changes come fast and furious. One may be riding the crest of great waves before being engulfed in enormous crescendos of confusion. Sometimes is can be like surfboarding in the South Atlantic. You do the best you can to stay afloat while all the time fully understanding the fact that things can come crashing down around you. If you worry about the consequences you miss the thrill of the ride. View quote
Damien Richardson
Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football? View quote
Terry McMillan