Football Quotes
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Football is like chess, only without the dice.
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I have no interest in owning a football club; I don't play golf; I don't like horseracing and I'd rather become a professional bungee jumper than enter politics.
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I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.
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I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it, I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it.
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The Dodgers. My favorite hockey team is the Kings. I like the Clippers in basketball. And I like USC college. Football, the Giants.
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As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.
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Al Toon, who had his football career cut short because of multiple concussions, hopes his son follows in his footsteps.
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In football, nothing is certain, so it's no problem to return to Corinthians.
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I enjoy going on hikes, and I enjoy the occasional yoga. The one thing I'm good at athletically - and I don't know if I'm good at it anymore because I haven't done this in a while - I can throw a pretty good spiral in football, but I have no idea how to play.
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I sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,' so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.
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Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe.
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It was a very exciting time for me to play professional football, finally.
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I went to college to play football, not to study it.
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There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.
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I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.
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I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.
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My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.
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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.
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I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.
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I always want to show them I can play football.
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I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.
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Football lost its excitement for me.
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I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.
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It doesn't mean my footballing ideas are special, different, better than the others. I am not saying it's my football, my ideas, and the other coaches are nothing. It's the way I believe. I'm not special.
