Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Footballers - Page 3

You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.

I got offered a short-term contract at Oldham, to sit on the bench. I was living on my mate's sofa while I was there. But that's what you've got to do to get by.

The passionate fans they have and also the ambition of the manager and the chairman. It was an easy descion to choose West Ham. London is also closer to my wife's side of the family - so provided her more help to raise the kids. Everything made sense and I'm extremely happy.

Life has taught me that you can’t control someone’s loyalty. No matter how good you are to them, doesn’t mean they’ll treat you the same. No matter how much they mean to you, doesn’t mean they’ll value you the same. Sometimes the people you love the most, turn out to be the people you can trust the least.

People are often enamored with my Super Bowl ring. But it's my wedding ring that I'm most proud of. And having a good marriage takes even more work than winning a Super Bowl.

When I get on the field, I feel unstoppable.

People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe.

I can do crunches all day long, but in yoga my core was challenged in a way that I never felt before.

The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion

The play-offs are a great occasion to be involved in; the semi-finals were amazing. When you're in it it's special and you do enjoy it but if you are in it, you have to win it. It's a lot of pressure.

I am happy with what I have done until now, but there are things I would like to improve. I would like to do more, there is always margin to grow and reduce mistakes, fix things to get things perfect.

With eight minutes left, the game could be won in the next five or ten minutes.

I'm not perfect, but I know when I start to do something, I don't like to not finish.

A lot of times I go to the gym and I see people and they don't know how to work out. There's no routine or anything like that. I saw a guy who I haven't seen in five years and the guy looks the same as he did five years ago.

You've got to enjoy competition and when you get given any opportunity you've got to take it.

You're from Louisiana - you're playing for Louisiana, man. You get so much love from everybody, especially from New Orleans, my city. Everywhere I go, they're rooting for me.

We have to work under the assumption that the things that we fought hard for to protect women will be under assault, and we have to bring all our creativity and our energy to bear to preserve those things, no matter who is in the White House.

Live your life as a missions trip.

Hot Cheetos! Ohhhhh! I used to crave them. I remember I used to eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I had to stop. I had to turn it around because it was getting addicting.

You cannot afford to rely on history, you have to make it.

My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.

Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.

Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

I want people to expect more from me because I expect more. If you don't set goals high, you're not trying.

I can't blend in to how everyone else is looking.

If someone does not have a missions heart at home, nothing magical happens when they buckle the seat belt on the airplane.

Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the universe.

The two biggest things to understand when you're tracking the ball as a defensive back is your position on the field and understanding that once the ball is in the air you become the receiver. Too many young defensive backs worry about the receiver catching it or what the receiver is doing instead of focusing on what they should be doing. Just go out and make the play yourself, don't worry about him. Know where the ball is and attack it. Put yourself in position to bat it or catch it and make the play.

There are times, where I am sad for the public. I am sad, because they do not get to know the brilliance that is Sebastian Janikowski.

A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots.

Giving Cristiano that much time and space on the ball is like giving Dracula the keys to the blood bank

I get a chance to see new bands and new music. I've seen a lot of amazing local bands, bands that I think 'have what it takes', that they could become the next big thing. More often than not it doesn't happen.

I'm not an athlete; I'm a quarterback. I don't have great speed, and I can't throw 90 yards down the field. I win games because I've done the mental preparation.

Mario Balotelli is like Marmite, you either love him or hate him. Me? I'm in between.

You don't realize how long that NFL season is. It's a long season, especially in your first year. Not only do you spend a lot of time preparing for the draft and working out, but they you have OTAs, minicamps, training camp, preseason games. By the time you get to week six you've already had one of the longest years of your football life and you still have 11 weeks to go, plus the playoffs.

As young girls we grow up with the idea that life is going to be a bit of a fairytale. But at some point reality hits and we realise that's not what life is about. Many of us are faced with eating disorders and mental health struggles, bad relationships and heartbreak, low self-esteem and confused sexualities and more. Life is very much real.

It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.

How can you truly know what success is, if you’ve never experienced failure?

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.

Scotland can't afford to take their minds off the gas

I want to be the most expensive full-back ever because when you reach that it shows that you are one of the best full-back of the world.

I have played as a goalkeeper since I was six but I always worked on my ball skills, playing with my foot, knowing how to control the ball, how to pass. But the main thing is to save goals.

My grandmother used to teach me that it's bad manners to invite yourself to somebody's house.

I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is.

Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales.

When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree.

Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend.

I think I'm a real good person off the field. I've got good character traits, I go to Church often, and I do community service. I think I'm a really good role model.

Size doesn't matter. It's all about the heart.

When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence.

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.

I believe in myself and my team-mates, and that's the only way.

My footballing curve; I never thought this could happen. But over the years of work, injuries, without opportunities, I've learned that deep inside an attitude builds which says: 'The moment someone gives me the chance, there's no way I'm letting go.'

I want to get a big, lifted truck with mudflaps on the back. Where I'm from, it's an agricultural area, so that's just how I've been raised.

People talk about the prestige of beating records but prestige never bought me dinner in a restaurant. It's winning games that does that.

Football is the love of my life. I would never say I don't want to play. Somebody could say that this game is meaningless. Who is it meaningless to? I guess people who are watching the game? Or the people who are playing it? It's definitely not meaningless to us.

It's about quieting your mind and getting into certain states where everything outside of you doesn't matter in that moment. There are so many things telling you that you can't do something, but you take those thoughts captive, take power over them and change them.

My strength is breaking people down. I may not outrun or outsize you, but I will make you miss.