Top 1200 Football Clubs Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Ultimately, college football is a huge passion of mine. In my opinion, I really feel ESPN owns college football. The only way I think I could have left ESPN was for an opportunity to call NFL games. That was the opportunity I had at Fox.

I'm straight, but I love going to house music clubs and flirting with women and gay men.

I feel good when I see someone from fan clubs on Instagram make a card for me.

Anyone who watches football and watches Tottenham play would have to be an admirer of the way they play football and the way they go about their business.

We are Manchester United: we are one of the biggest clubs in the world, and we are going to try to win everything, of course.

Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it's like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.

My time at City and at Bolton was wonderful. I met a lot of good people at both clubs.

Sometimes clubs take their ownership of a young player for granted and do not necessarily do the best thing for their development.

They call it football, but the object of the game is to bash the other guy so hard that he's eventually carried off the field on a stretcher. I can't watch football anymore. My psychiatrist said it's better that way. I used to watch a game, see the players in a huddle - and think they were talking about me.

Even though I feel very privileged to play football, with the things I have experienced within the game, it is not something I would be shouting from the rooftops, to recommend to people's children to be footballers. Because there are a lot of things that happen on a day-to-day basis at club football that I wouldn't wish on anybody.

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

It ticks me off to hear people say, 'Hey man, at your age you don't look like you're slowing down a bit.' Like, can I just be a football player? Why does the 33 age have to coincide with me when you talking football?

I never aimed for the radio, you know? I'm a DJ - I want my records to be played by all the other DJs in the clubs.

I don't go to comedy clubs unless I'm working. And when I do work, I come in, I do my time and I leave. I don't hang out.

Maradona has done a lot for his clubs, as Messi does, and for the Argentina national team.

We have always found it easier, and still do, when the opponent plays football as well, when they don't just think in defensive terms, don't just sit inside their penalty box. It's just nicer when the opponent plays football.

Players like Messi and Xavi are always hungry. Whatever the game or the competition - even if it is table-tennis - they want to win. We used to play two-touch football games after training and they would always be desperate to win. It taught you about life as well as football.

The only thing Chelsea and Manchester City have in common is the fact that both clubs have a lot of money.

I don't think in the big clubs in Europe you can find three strikers with an average age of 20.

People don't have to go to cable news or network news. Live sports is the one of many things that's kind of community television. There are a lot of people who still tune in to "Sunday Night Football" or "Thursday Night Football" the way they did before.

Any of the the 30 ball clubs have a chance at success, and the fans know that. It keeps everything exciting.

I need to get better with my 3-wood and hybrid. Those are the clubs I missed the majority of my fairways with.

I'm essentially starting at the bottom of the food chain and playing the small clubs and intimate shows.

Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.

The English clubs Arsenal and Manchester United focus on continuity with the same coaches for years.

I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.

I can only work hard because it is a huge responsibility to wear all of these shirts, all of these clubs that I have played for.

Where I'm from, in the middle of the country, there were no clubs or parties. You had to make your own fun.

Only the very best clubs are able to pass the baton of continuity down through the generations.

I get recognised, but I'm not the sort of person who frequents popular clubs. I try to keep out of that.

I think there's a lot of hidden talents at the big clubs that aren't getting the chance to showcase their ability.

Some things that started in pre-season and then, you know what, the season gets started, you kind of forget about it and then move on to football, and it's strictly football until the season finishes.

If you're not frustrated that you're not playing football then you shouldn't be playing football

Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.

I don't want to look out and perform in front of people who are drunk. I did that when I was playing little clubs.

I guess my earliest football memories are of playing in the street and also the little pitches at school. I joined the local football team in my village when I was small, but we would play only once or twice a week. I honed my skills just by playing for fun with friends after school.

Of course I support England - and I follow Birmingham. I am an avid football fan, and obviously, I have a connection with Arsenal, so I like to watch them, too. I think anyone who is English follows the men's team and wants them to do well, and I'm an avid follower of any football, really.

At the top level you know most things about the best clubs, there aren't too many surprises.

That's one thing that I've always wanted: to make my own decisions and not to be pushed. That has happened in my career, and I wanted to leave football, not football to leave me. I wanted to enjoy it as much as I could and to leave it a little bit earlier than too late.

I like dancing but not in crowded clubs. I would rather dance alone than go to a club.

The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.

I don't go out to clubs. You'll never see me on a table at a bar, jumping up and down.

Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

Obviously, there are many clubs that make me dream, like Real Madrid or Barcelona.

Shops and clubs are very important when you want to change things. And they have a common denominator; the customer.

I've played football one-handed. I've played football with no hands.

Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind of masculinity - the drunk kind, the king who will yell the worst nationalist's ideas. In front of those, it is very difficult to be a dignified woman.

The big Premier League clubs will only call me if I win a title in Germany.

How I've fed my kids over the years is by doing stand-up comedy in clubs.

If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.

It took a while to find a passion for another career that was as strong as the passion that I had for football. Once I found it in acting, it was simple. Use the tools you were given from playing football and apply it to your new passion. I have done that through acting, producing and writing.

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

I appreciate the fans who come out here, and they support us, but it's football. We're not saving lives. We're not police officers. We're not doctors. We're football players, first and foremost. If you want to stop watching the game because a guy feels strongly about a very serious topic that's going on in our society, then that's your choice.

I get recognised, but Im not the sort of person who frequents popular clubs. I try to keep out of that.

FC Bayern is one of the best clubs in the world, and for me it's a dream come true to play here.

I grew up on North American sports teams as well as English soccer clubs.

Any great club needs the mentality to go on and achieve things - it is what clubs like United have.

Where would I go from Liverpool? It is one of the biggest clubs in the world and I am too happy here to move.

When you go to clubs in London there are loads of good-looking blokes, and I feel like a bit of a minger