Football Quotes
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It's rare to have a best friend who is also your brother and also an NFL football player, and he knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Eli Manning
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I write first drafts by hand. Never do I open an umbrella inside the house. I don't predict wins or losses. I used to stand on a certain piece of rug if my brothers and husband were watching football and their team got in trouble - but now the luck went out of that rug. If a circle is involved, I try to go clockwise.
Louise Erdrich
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Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann
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I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.
Pablo Francisco
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When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability.
Jose Mourinho
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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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Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.
Ricky Williams
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When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh.
Sarah Dessen
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I want to play for Arsenal. When you see football all around the world, you see very few teams who play the way that we play. I just enjoy it. I feel it is my home now.
Cesc Fabregas
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Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.
Jerry O'Connell
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Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blacks really won't play golf in great numbers until some of these basketball and football stars buy some golf courses where blacks can play.
Charlie Parker
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Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.
Eric Cantona
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The Merseyside derby games are unique in the city.
Brendan Rodgers
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I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.
Paul Ince
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We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players... that's fading away.
Bill Simmons
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Football is an American sport. Everyone loves it. I certainly would never want to ban football.
Ann McKee
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A Redskin is a football player.
Daniel Snyder
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The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
Art Modell
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This award is voted for by journalists, who can be your biggest critic and get on your nerves sometimes, but they all know football and I am very respectful of their thoughts, and very proud they have decided to give me this award this year.
Frank Lampard
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This is a good way to do it (saying goodbye to Victoria Park). What a perfect way to end the Millennium. The last football home and away match of the Millennium will be at Victoria Park, and in the new Millennium we'll have fantastic facilities, a new approach, a new attitude.
Eddie McGuire
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Oh I'm sorry - I don't follow football.
William Gallas
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All religions, they play football - even nowadays all girls and women have the right to play football in cultures like the Arabic countries in the Muslim they play football.
Sepp Blatter
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We haven't won the games we wanted to win. I thought maybe if I put baseball aside and focus on football, I can get us a step closer to where we want to be.
Cedric Benson
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The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.
Franz Beckenbauer