Football Quotes

I'm on the cover of the lingerie football swimsuit calendar this year.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.

Football lost its excitement for me.

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

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.

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.

No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.

Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston.

It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.

When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.

No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football.

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.

I want to play for Arsenal. When you see football all around the world, you see very few teams who play the way that we play. I just enjoy it. I feel it is my home now.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life.

That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.

Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play.

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

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.

You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

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.

As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.

I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.

American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.

I remember the '70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years.

I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I think it was the passion I had for track where you want to do an individual sport and be the best, I think - there's nothing that can replace that.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.

It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

If you come from Spain, you have to play football.

I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.

You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?

I'm taking T.O., every day... He gives me the whole football field.

The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor.

You made it something special. Most of all, I want to thank the fans for your support not through the great times that we shared on the football field, but for the last 17 years of my life. You have supported me through all times.

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.