Football Quotes
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I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.
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When I was playing for the reserves, if you got a call-up you got a straight £30. I'd never been paid for football!
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Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.
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My son is 6. I wouldn't let my six-year-old son near any football field. And if any coach asks my son to play football, I'll sue that coach, and I'll sue the school.
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I'm Messi Football Club.
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German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character.
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Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
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You take your shots when you have them, and I threw a lot of touchdowns, but I'm always going to take care of the football in the red zone.
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England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.
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Football is probably the most democratic human activity. It belongs to everyone... to poor and rich, illiterate and educated, to all races, cultures, and nations.
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Unfortunately, sometimes the fans forget who puts the money and passion into the club. It's funny, but when you win, it's the coach and the players who are responsible, but when you lose, it's the owner's fault; but that's football.
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Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.
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The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence.
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I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.
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Occasionally, in the afternoons, I catch a movie, watch football, go to Sunday brunch, or visit with family and friends.
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You can't have Thanksgiving and not just be like, 'All right, where's the football.' It's been branded very, very well. You can't have one without the other at this point.
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If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.
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No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.
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I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.
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I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.
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Football helped me build confidence on and off the field and taught me to grow through moments of success and disappointment.
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I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.
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If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.
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I follow English football a lot and Ancelotti.
