Football Quotes
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I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it.
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Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.
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I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.
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It is one of my biggest regrets that Niall Quinn was not here during my time... I felt he was an intelligent player. It would have been a good combination with Thierry Henry. What I like with Quinn is if you look at the player who played next to him, he always scored 40 goals because he had a hand for his head and he just put the ball where you were. He was a team player. A top-class player makes other players look good and he had that player.
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I will certainly continue in football in a different role. I will continue with my contractual, publicity and managerial commitments and finish my studies for coaching.
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My number one focus is and will always be football. I wanted to make sure that companies I partner with not only respect that, but also make sense and are quality products. I think Klipsch is synonymous with quality in the sound industry, so it was a natural partnership.
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But I am very confident that David Pleat, the director of football or whatever his title is now days - I am very confident that he, with all his media commitments around the world, knows the market place.
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“If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.
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The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.
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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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I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.
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If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.
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I just came to West Ham to play football, the rest is not for me to say.
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It's freaking football. There are going to be big hits. I don't understand how they can do this after one weekend of hitting. And I can't understand how they can suspend us for it. I think it's a bunch of bull.
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I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.
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It's a lot harder to play football when you haven't got the ball.
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The game of football is always changing.
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I love good flowing football where the whole team is engaged.
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You know, I stopped being competitive after I played football.
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Football is my job, not my life, but it's a job I'm going to give my all for as long as I'm in it.
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Football's always easier when you've got the ball.
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I can understand that people are not happy, but they should not use football to make their demands heard
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I am from a city (Glasgow) that is not unlike Liverpool. I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans. It is a fantastic opportunity, something you dream about. I said 'yes' right away as it is such a big club.
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Football is the No. 1 sport in America.
