A Quote by Jock Stein

Without fans who pay at the turnstile, football is nothing. Sometimes we are inclined to forget that. The only chance of bringing them into stadiums is if they are entertained by what happens on the football field.

Jock Stein

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Bringing Chance Entertained Fans Field Football Football Field Forget Happens Inclined Nothing Only Pay Sometimes Stadiums Them Without

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Jock Stein
Scottish - Celebrity
October 5, 1922 - September 10, 1985

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.

Sadio Mane

If we in Spain had fans like in England, it would be the best League without doubt. And the live football, in the stadiums, the people live for it.

Gerard Deulofeu

Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

Gale Sayers

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Hunter S. Thompson

Football without fans is nothing.

Jock Stein

Football is nothing without fans.

Matt Busby

Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.

Peyton Manning

Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.'

Peyton Manning

I was a football fan, a kid who loved football and when you are a kid from Paris there are only two stadiums - the Stade de France or the Parc de Princes - and that is what makes Paris so special.

Kylian Mbappe

At a Texas college, a football field that was turned into a farm. The Tigers of Paul Quinn College lost more football games than they won on this field. So, years ago, when the historically black college on the South Side of Dallas was in financial crisis and had a 1 percent graduation rate, a new president turned everything over, including the football field.

Hari Sreenivasan

Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.

Mike McCarthy

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.

Chuck Bednarik

The football playoffs feature one-off affairs, without bad feelings building from weekend to weekend. In addition, football uses platoons for offense and defense and kicking, so only the interior linemen have a chance to really get up close and personal with one another.

George Vecsey

I respect his decisions, but football without Messi is not football. It is very hard to imagine football without him.

Neymar

All I care about is football and make myself available and sometimes you know, football is a violent game and it's very unforgiving. Stuff happens and you just got to kind of deal with it.