Football famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.
-- A. A. Gill -
Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party. But if you and I set up the Church of the Fairies of the Garden, then I don't think we should automatically be meeting the queen, be entitled to seats in the House of Lords or get public money for our fairy schools.
-- A.C. Grayling -
The reality is we are 0-3. The reality is that we can still be a very good football team. We need to show that on Monday night.
-- Aaron Kampman -
It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I love our fans. Our fans are so supportive. It's been incredible to end four playoff games with 'Go Pack Go.' It's great at home, they travel well, it's on a first-name basis. It's a special play to play and all of us are blessed to play in Green Bay, and hopefully we will be repaying those fans with the Lombardi trophy.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
It's named the Lombardi Trophy for a reason, because we play and live in Titledown. We've got the best fans, and I can't wait to go home and see those fans and bring home the Lombardi Trophy.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
He said something was unique: I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do, and see if the officials take air out of it,
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I'm not good for you. I don't know why you make me want you so bad. I was angry with myself when I said all that earlier. I was mad because I wanted you in a way I'd never experienced before. Before you, I just wanted to excel in football and school. I wanted my parents to be proud of me. But now, I want other things too. You get to me in a way I don't understand
-- Abbi Glines -
Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
-- Adam Yauch -
I wouldn't watch football if it wasn't for Lord Bendtner
-- Adolf Hitler -
Lampard's not the first player to run to the crowd with lips over his mouth.
-- Adrian Chiles -
There's a certain amount of one-way shirt swapping going on.
-- Adrian Chiles -
I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.
-- Adrian Peterson -
My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.
-- Adrian Peterson -
I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.
-- Adrian Peterson -
At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.
-- Aidy Boothroyd -
On current form, both teams will probably lose.
-- Aidy Boothroyd -
He's not fit, either physically or biomechanically.
-- Aidy Boothroyd -
No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.
-- Al Davis -
I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium.
-- Al Davis -
I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard bearer, someone that players, coaches, fans and the Raider Nation can all look up to. One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled.
-- Al Davis -
I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.
-- Al Gore -
Those three words, Monday Night Football, resonate like no other.
-- Al Michaels -
Belgium's not a hotpot of international football
-- Alan Brazil -
Clint Dempsey scored a last-minute winner to earn Tottenham a 1-1 draw against United.
-- Alan Brazil -
The tackles are coming in thick and thin now.
-- Alan Brazil -
I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.
-- Alan Brazil -
We didn't look like scoring, although we looked like we were going to get a goal.
-- Alan Buckley -
I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.
-- Alan Curbishley -
I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.
-- Alan Davies -
They care about their club, and that's why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative
-- Alan Green -
Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead
-- Alan Green -
John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on
-- Alan Green -
John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul
-- Alan Green -
Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like...
-- Alan Green -
Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing
-- Alan Green -
Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
-- Alan Green -
I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.
-- Alan Hansen -
I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.
-- Alan Hansen -
That was never a penalty in a million planets.
-- Alan McInally -
I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.
-- Alan Page -
How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.
-- Alan Page -
I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.
-- Alan Pardew -
He'll probably wake up having sleepless nights about that one.
-- Alan Parry -
...like a predator about to devour the target.
-- Alan Parry -
It's going to take a shoehorn to prise these two teams apart
-- Alan Parry -
The ball was literally glued to the back of his foot - into the back of the net.
-- Alan Parry -
That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.
-- Alan Parry -
He had no chance of beating Schmeichel from there, but it was always worth a try.
-- Alan Parry -
There isn't an injury known to man that Bryan Robson hasn't had.
-- Alan Parry -
Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.
-- Alan Parry -
Villa will probably play a lot worse than this and lose.
-- Alan Parry -
Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run
-- Alan Parry -
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.
-- Alan Shearer -
I have never wanted to go abroad before but you can never say never in football.
-- Alan Shearer -
I made no secret of the fact I'd love to stay in football and to do that, you need badges. I'm starting them and that's the next step for me - to continue this next season.
-- Alan Shearer -
Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.
-- Alan Shearer -
Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.
-- Alan Shearer -
I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.
-- Alan Shearer -
I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.
-- Alan Shearer -
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.
-- Alan Sillitoe -
There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.
-- Alan Sugar -
I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.
-- Alan Sugar -
We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.
-- Alan Thicke -
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
-- Alastair Campbell -
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
-- Albert Camus -
All I know of morality I learned from football
-- Albert Camus -
I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.
-- Alec Baldwin -
I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.
-- Alessandro Del Piero -
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.
-- Alessandro Del Piero -
Only two players made me cry when watching football, one was Diego Maradona and the other Ryan Giggs.
-- Alessandro Del Piero -
I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
-- Alex Ferguson -
I do like to try and see myself in football players. Everybody is different and express themselves in different ways. There are different kinds of talents of course and there are many who I would never have had the talent that they have when I was a player. But I still had that determination to be successful and try my best.
-- Alex Ferguson -
If you were in a game of football always think you need maybe eight to win the game. Three can on an off day or semi off day but you always hard. And the players recognize that and they'll do that extra to make sure they get winning. The essence of the team is to understand and trust each other and to trust me.
-- Alex Ferguson -
I always say prepare to be a coach to anybody who wants to be a coach. At 24 years of age when I left engineering to become full time in football, I made sure that I was never going back to engineering.
-- Alex Ferguson -
When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.
-- Alex Ferguson -
You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.
-- Alex Ferguson -
Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.
-- Alex Ferguson -
Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.
-- Alex Ferguson -
David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practices with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.
-- Alex Ferguson -
It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him. I felt such an honor to be associated with such a player.
-- Alex Ferguson -
They had Jan Venegoor of...whatever you call him.
-- Alex Ferguson -
You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.
-- Alex Ferguson -
In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.
-- Alex Ferguson -
You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right.
-- Alex Ferguson -
I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.
-- Alex Ferguson
