Top 1200 Football Match Quotes & Sayings

A football match should never be settled with the horror of penalties. I don't see that as a valid result. For me, there has to be another way.

To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.

There's only one plan in football: win you next match.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

Football is a sport where you never know what is going to happen between one match and the next.

My brother took me to my first football match when I was five, and I quickly acquired a passion for it: once you've walked into a football ground, you know there's nothing comparable to it.

Italian football lost credibility because of the match-fixing scandals - the best footballers didn't want to come.

Anything is possible in football and every match is different!

Of course, stuff happens off the ball in any football match. Standing on people's toes, pinching, hair pulling, punching in the back.

I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.

I hope that my team can show just how well we can play football and that we have the desire to win each individual match.

I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.

After football, ideally I want to take Gary Lineker's job, but we'll see about that. I'd love to do that, present 'Match of the Day.'

I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence.

As a very patriotic and passionate Scot, singing the anthem at a big football match means the world to me and I'm so lucky and so honoured that I get asked to do this.

I enjoy playing, but once the match ends the football is finished for me.

I have friends in other industries but if I am training for a wrestling match, I would turn to the best wrestler to train, not a football player.

I'm concerned that Islam has not just been politicised but that it's becoming an identity. This is like turning religion into a football match; it's a distraction from the real thing.

When you start to add paraphernalia into a match whether it's a ladder match or a tables match or anything, any of these outside factors, you start to ramp up the intensity and you ramp up the difficulty in these matches.

A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one.

My all-time favorite match that I've ever had was against Kyle O'Reilly in 2012, the 'hybrid fighting rules match' where we were bleeding buckets all over the place. And it was really a match that took my career to the next level.

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.

There is no small team or easy match in football.

Football is more disputed in England than it is in Italy. Every match is a very hard match because the referee doesn't blow his whistle as much as in Italy, and every team plays against each other like it is a final.

I was in Athens for a football match when 9/11 went down, and it was quite spectacular - we went into this bar and tried to find out what happened, and the bartender said "it's only the American and the Arabs. They're not big football nations." So the feeling was, what's it got to do with us? Why are football games being cancelled in Europe? The intelligentsia in the West feel like they have to figure out the significance of it all, whereas people have other pressing concerns, related to basic needs.

English football is very physical, much more so than Spanish football - I felt it in the first match.

England against France is such a massive match; you can't get much bigger than that in European football. It's a huge rivalry.

The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.

As a football player, you would like to play each match.

The facts are, the reality is, you can't really enjoy it. You win a football match and by the time you get to Saturday night, having a beer or a Chinese, you're already thinking about Monday morning, the next game.

That's football, it's our job not just to name the starting XI but during the match as well.

I'd 1,000 times rather go see an NBA game than a football match.

In Italy, so long as you are not criminal, they couldn't care less about your private life. It's when you lose a football match that they criticise you - a lot.

When you have to play football, you do it in the knowledge that there's a lot riding on the match, be it money, your team-mates, or the feelings of the fans.

The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.

In the summer, you miss the match days, but my wife gets angry, as she doesn't see me on weekends. And football is work. I'm still working on the weekends.

Football really felt like a private thing when I was in my teens because it wasn't on television, for a start, apart from 'Match of the Day.'

Losing produces a weird reaction in me. I surrender all sense of perspective. It's ridiculous, really. All this over a football match.

Oh my gosh, I was so nervous at Wrestlemania when I debuted. I never had a live match ever. I'd had practice matches, but a practice match in front of no one is very different from a real match.

When I was three or four, only football was in my head. I went 10 years, and nothing changed - only football, football, football. The strange thing is, nobody played football in my family before.

The Cincinnati Bengals look like the most complete team in the National Football League. I can’t wait to see how they match up against New England.

If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks.

If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.

Everyone knows me by now. I love football. I am quite principled in that perspective. It is always difficult to find the perfect match, but I do feel this is the perfect match for me.

The fans can bring a better match by getting more involved. So when a match is over, they might be talking about how good the match was, but little do they know, that great match was elevated because of them.

It's not like I played my first football match in England. For me, football is pretty much the same everywhere; the ball is round, but maybe tactically, things are different than at other clubs I've played for.

My favourite football memory is the opening match of France '98, and unfortunately Scotland had drawn Brazil.

For me, Arsenal is a football training centre. You watch the match, you enjoy it, but are you going to win a title afterwards? That's what people remember.

It's a difficult thing in this league to match up, to line up and play one-on-one football.

There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.

I hate any match that isn't a traditional Tag Team Match or a traditional Singles Match, because anything can happen. It's truly one of those deals where it's all about being in the right place at the right time.

Football is more disputed in England than it is in Italy. Every match is a very hard match because the referee doesn't blow his whistle as much as in Italy, and every team plays against each other like it is a final. I enjoy it more in England because you have to think quicker. The pace of the game is faster, so you don't have much time to think.

The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

You gain know-how from playing matches because every moment of a football match has its own rhythm.

In football it is impossible to win every match but we must do everything to show in every game that we have ambition.

This is football from the 19th century. It's very difficult to play a football match when only one team wants to play. A football match is about two teams playing. I told Big Sam, they need points. To come here the way they did, is that acceptable? Maybe it is, they need points. The only thing I could bring more was Black & Decker - a Black & Decker to destroy the West Ham wall.

Mr. McMahon is a genius, and he know how to give the people good match from first match to the last match.

Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.

When it comes to understanding how to talk in English about football, I always watch 'Match of the Day.'

The best match I've ever been in match-wise, I wrestled The Undertaker in France in a coliseum that was built in 300 A.D. by the Romans. It was the most amazing match I've ever been in.