Johnny Giles Quotes

The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.

Johnny Giles

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• I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Know

• In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • You
  • Football
  • Opportunities

• My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Football
  • Never
  • Husband

• I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Up
  • Different
  • School

• Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Country
  • Team
  • Best

• These days, I'm always trying to have lots of touches, to be involved, and to play my football for 90 minutes.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Trying
  • Football
  • Always

• I still feel like I've got a lot of great football in front of me and the way that I've taken care of myself better the last few years. I think is going to put me in position to be able to play really well late in my 30s and even in my early 40s, possibly, if they'd like to keep me around that long and I can still play a little bit.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Great
  • Long
  • Myself

• The one thing I know is, if I play good ball, things have tended to come along with it. Everything that I've ever done in my career has come off of playing good football. And so I realize I need to go out there, and I need to take care of my business; then everything else - all these cool, great things - come along with it.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Good
  • Great
  • Done

• As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Long
  • Team
  • Football

• I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Football
  • Hockey
  • Clear

• There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent.

  

  Xavi
  • Football
  • Talent
  • Two

• There are few secrets in football. So execute.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Football
  • Secrets
  • Few

• A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• In the highly improbable event of his being asked to nominate the one most un-Jewish thing he could think of, Sefton Goldberg would have been hard pressed to decide between Nature – that's to say birds, trees, flowers, and country walks – and football – that's to say beer, bikies, mud, and physical pain.

  

  Howard Jacobson
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Pain

• I come from West London. I support a football team there called Queens Park Rangers, whom I'd like to give a shout-out to. I'm a die-hard Rangers fan. I think that I would always hopefully have a strong connection to and live in London, because it's a brilliant city.

  

  Ben Lloyd-Hughes
  • Live
  • Strong
  • Team

• I don't miss the limelight, not at all. I'm just more comfortable out of it. I don't miss 'Monday Night Football.' I just don't miss it. I'm lucky. When I stopped playing, I didn't miss it. I feel blessed that it's not been a problem. I have great memories. I feel really lucky.

  

  Don Meredith
  • Great
  • Night
  • Football

• I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow.

  

  James Cosmo
  • Football
  • Couple
  • Flying

• I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Football

• I always wanted to become a good role model for kids as a professional football player. Unfortunately, I didn't attain that through football, but I was smart enough to realize that professional wrestling provided another opportunity for that.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Opportunity

• If you're in college, if you're in high school, if you're in elementary school, if you're in a youth league, if you're in the NFL, football's football.

  

  DeAngelo Williams
  • School
  • High
  • College

• Everybody always wanted me to be sorry, I guess, and I am. And I'm tired of it. And I want to play football and, well, if I can't I'll have to do something else.

  

  Alex Karras
  • Play
  • Football
  • Tired

• Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Thinking
  • Nice
  • Football

• To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

  

  Duane Michals

• The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.

  

  Johnny Giles
  • Football
  • Values
  • Despise