Football Quotes
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The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?
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Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.
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Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African modernisation.
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I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.
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Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture of me. The juxtaposition was meant to illustrate two meanings of "offensive." Seriously. It broke my heart. It's that accepted what I do is offensive?
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Our goal is to try to hold it on offense in that situation, and don't give it back, ... Run time off the clock and protect the lead. We need to average more than that when we're rushing the football.
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In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.
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I enjoy playing football with my three older brothers Rick, Ryan and Bobby.
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The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.
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I like to watch good football so I like to watch good players. I like Cristiano Ronaldo, Andres Iniesta, Xavi and Wayne Rooney.
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I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.
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If I was still at Ipswich, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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I am a football fan, yeah.
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Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.
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If a footballer presents himself as a family man and goes and has sex with a prostitute, should he gag her?
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Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.
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Sometimes I do feel a little pressure, but not that much because we play different positions.
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In football you can make it if you've got the 'I'm-going-to-get-up-off-the-ground-and-kick-your-ass' attitude.
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Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.
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Football doesn’t define me. It’s what I do and how I carry out my faith.
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Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.
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I have no idea why Mark would have done that. I was as shocked as anybody in the stadium. How do you explain that? I don't know. That goes back to Pop Warner football. Mark should have made a better decision. I'm not going to sit here and go any further in front of the whole media, but it's as bad a play as there is.
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Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
