Football Quotes
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English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.
Kevin Keegan
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When you're a kid that's all you want to do, go out and play football.
Alan Smith
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It's coming home to finish what I started. I left coaching, but I've never left the game of football. When the job opened up, I wanted to try to be a part of it, because I felt my organization, my football team, needed me.
Art Shell
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Only a handful of professional football athletes have had a signature shoe, unlike in basketball where there have been a number of guys.
Keyshawn Johnson
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If you take golf, you have a teacher for the drive, a teacher for the approach play, and a teacher for the putt. That's three specialist coaches for one player. In football, one coach looks after 25 players.
Johan Cruyff
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I know when it's time to joke and when it's time to be serious. As far as football goes, I'm serious.
Jason Pierre-Paul
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I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - just crazy. I'm looking forward to thanking all the fans for inspiring me to go out there and play my best football each and every game.
Jerry Rice
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I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.
Barack Obama
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If I wasn't playing football, I'd be a juvenile probation officer.
Brandon Marshall
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If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.
S. Robson Walton
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In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.
Kevin McKidd
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There's only one podcast subject that can give Donald Trump a run for his money when it comes to vulgarity, excess, and base comedy, and that's football.
David Hepworth
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Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.
Derek Bok
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I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
Bo Jackson
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I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.
Joe Namath
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When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?' Because I've got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, 'Hello, how are you?' out there.
John McEnroe
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I don't remember Bill Walsh being old. I remember young Bill Walsh. He wasn't gray-haired, and neither was I when we first met. His legacy will live on. Bill Walsh's name and his accomplishments will be remembered and revered so long as the great game of football is played.
Marv Levy
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When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.
Eric Cantona
