Football Quotes
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The only moment football really stops is with a penalty kick - and that is a moment that is really dramatic. A penalty kick becomes a Western duel. It's two guys facing each other. Destiny and potential death, whether metaphorical or literal. That's why in the penalty kick at the end of the film, I shot it like an homage to the Sergio Leone Westerns I saw when I was a kid, especially The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.
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For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play, it's a joke. Is it football? Are you guys football players? Is that what they call football? It's not iron-man football, where you stay on the field for 60 minutes. Everybody! We were iron men. Not a bunch of pussyfoots.
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When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.
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It’s different from the place where I grew up, but I really wanted to play football. I would have gone anywhere for football. It’s a bit cold here, but I would have done anything to have a chance.
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I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.
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I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.
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Chris Waddle is off the pitch at the moment - exactly the position he is at his most menacing.
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Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.
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Football is the No. 1 sport in America.
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For the last decade, the last 50 years, Barcelona dominate football matches. I love the way they play.
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I can definitely relate to a few things in the song. Going mudding on a dirt road, going to football games, I did a few of those things.
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Management brings the best and worst out of me, and I think you have to find a distinction between what is work and what isn't work, because football can take over your life.
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I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.
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Tony Fernandes is in that goldfish bowl and he's swimming against the tide.
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When Klopp speaks about his football being heavy metal, I understand completely. It is so aggressive. For the fans, it is really good.
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That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!
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What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.
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Those companies that don't see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money and growth. When baseball, football and basketball couldn't see the field, they missed talent and growth. The same is true in the tech industry.
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As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.
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Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too.
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I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.
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I love good flowing football where the whole team is engaged.
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I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.
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I could've kept playing, but football didn't define me.
