Football Quotes

• I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.

  

  Vinnie Jones
  • Clubs
  • Captains
  • Wales

• I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Player
  • Winning
  • Competition

• 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.

  

  Haris Pasovic
  • Football
  • Human Activity

• I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Life
  • Work
  • School

• Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • War
  • Team
  • Army

• Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill.

  

  Charisma Carpenter
  • Time
  • Football
  • Gym

• It's funny, but when you think of the greatest plays in football history, they're all busted plays. You think of the Hail Mary, the Immaculate Reception, the Catch . . . none of them were designed the way they turned out.

  

  Danny White Matt Bianco
  • History
  • Football
  • Busted Plays

• I am preparing myself to leave football. I have always thought that once you get past 30, it is time to reflect on when you should go, and that is what I have done.

  

  Gabriel Batistuta
  • Football
  • Leave
  • Preparing

• Shinji is a quality player but he is not the only one who is finding it hard to get regular football. There are many top players in the squad and there is plenty of competition.

  

  Andy Cole
  • Football
  • Player
  • Competition

• Whether football's here or not, I will be fine. I go out, I play to win.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Football

• 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.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Life
  • Death
  • Stop

• But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football.

  

  Al Michaels
  • Football

• I understand football. I have always been a good footballer, and that gets overlooked by most people.

  

  Alan Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Football

• 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.

  

  Marcus du Sautoy
  • Game
  • Team
  • Player

• So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.

  

  Jose Mourinho
  • Football

• If you were asked to go on 'Mastermind,' what would your specialist subject be? I wouldn't have a clue what I could answer questions on. Birmingham City Football Club would be a start, I suppose, but with a hundred odd years of history, thousands of matches, players and incidents to recall, even access to Google would leave me struggling.

  

  Jasper Carrott
  • History
  • City
  • Football

• I had played sports all my life, and I thought that was going to be the way. But I saw where the potential in football was going to end. When it comes to decision-making, I just follow my gut at the end of the day. And if I don't, I get in trouble. I wanted to become a filmmaker.

  

  Jason Wiles
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Sports

• I started playing full-equipment football when I was 6 years old. My mom actually got me started in it.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Mom
  • Football

• These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Live
  • Training
  • Breathe

• Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

  

  Don Shula
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Luck

• I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Football
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.

  

  John Curtin
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Victory

• I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Football

• And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Women
  • American
  • America

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