Top 1200 Football Clubs Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Stoke-on-Trent - forget about the football club, or the people at the football club, and the supporters - Stoke-on-Trent is a wonderful place.

I was class president, on the cheerleading squad, in a competitive show choir, and in, like, six different clubs.

I chose Chelsea because I always wanted to play in Europe for one of the biggest clubs. And I'm glad I did.

People think that coaching is about winning football matches - which, of course, it is - but throughout my career it has also been about helping people become better, more able to deal with life and be more successful in their lives, on and off the football pitch.

I was one of those that didn't so much go to the discos or the clubs to drink. I went with a towel around my neck. I was ready to sweat!

I've been trying not to think too much about the rumours of clubs being linked with me.

You see, where I'm from, fighting is simply not a 'girl's thing.' In Umuarama, I grew up playing football, which to my family was also not a girl's thing, to be honest. Playing football was my biggest passion. I wanted to be on TV, to be just like Marta. I even had a knack for it.

When you get to Spurs you know the difference between the lesser clubs and the big boys. It's a different experience.

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.

The only thing you are really here to do is play football. So when you get a chance to go to the draft, and that part is over with, and you get signed on to a team, and you're ready to go, now it's back to everything you've been doing to get to this point, and that's play football.

Today, the biggest clubs in the world, they buy the players they need for whatever way they think they have to play.

I've just been playing football for a long time. I've been playing football since I was a little kid, so it's just some natural blessings that God has blessed me with to get to the ball and understand what I've been doing over the years.

The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.

Just play football. If you are a writer, you must write. It's the best way to practise. If I'm a pianist, I don't need to run in the forest for one hour or two hours to be a good pianist. I must play piano. So this is what we are doing all the time. Play football. Simple ideas.

As a young comedian playing the working men's clubs in the 70s, I'd been in awe of Dustin Gee.

There's so much built-up camaraderie and sacrifice, and football is such a tough man's game. I think that's why it's so popular. That's why so many blue-collar communities and people can really feel attracted to this because it is a blue-collar struggle that football players go through.

I don't wish that I was playing football. I love baseball, and the way I play is like it's my last day ever playing it. I do like football, but you've got to respect that it's not like baseball.

It's been the same since caveman days, this game of love - they just changed the trumps from clubs to diamonds.

Don't get me wrong: it's unbelievable getting linked with big clubs. That's where you want to go; of course it is.

I like to tell people that 'Ballers' has something for everyone. If you are a football fan, then obviously, 'Ballers' is the way to go. The series are using real team names so that's a plus. If you have no interest in football, it's still a show about life, and there's something for everybody on that show.

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

I don't like to go out to clubs, because I find myself seeing remnants of drugs in the bathroom.

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

We got £25 a week in the early Sixties when we were first with Brian Epstein, when we played the clubs.

I act for my fans. I expect them to enjoy my performance rather than starting fan clubs.

They say football is America's greatest game, but it's not. The greatest game in America is called opportunity. Football is merely a great expression of it.

Most of the clubs who have had success against Barcelona have relied on a highly organised and disciplined defence.

I love looking out at a sea of people. It's mind-blowing. But I also like playing clubs.

When I played in Belgium, Germany and England, their cultures were similar, more or less, because these clubs are all in Europe.

If English clubs are not giving you a chance then going abroad is always an option. That's what the Bundesliga is about.

I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.

I love football. I love my profession. What I don't like is cases where owners prioritise their interests over the club's. Football can't be solely about profit. Look, no one's stupid: no one wants to lose money but nor should it be about people getting rich off people's dreams.

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

Man City is one of the best clubs in the world. I knew that something big was happening here. I wanted to be a part of it.

At Arsenal and the so-called big clubs, you always know that there will be a bigger spotlight on every single position.

The part of football you don't see with all the buddies I ever had, we might have gone out and thrown some passes, but we never went out to knock the hell out of each other just to do it. You do that when the time comes to push the ball downfield or keep it from going down the field. That's why I think football has a great place.

It's football all day on Sunday. I wish we had football every day; that would make me way happier. Why can't we have that? You've got all these teams! Why can't we just play a Monday game, a Tuesday game, a Wednesday game?

All I do is play football, eat, sleep, play with my kids, play football.

Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.

Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

It's flattering to be linked with clubs, the rumours give me confidence but I just try to do my best every game.

There was a loophole in the law that said if I was working, I could be in the clubs as long as I didn't drink alcohol and had someone with me.

Bobby Troup and I have been working together for about a year in clubs. We work in the same club.

To be realistic, the big Dutch clubs cannot afford me. That's not because of my wages; it's the transfer fee.

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.

Young kids should probably not play tackle football. I know this intellectually, but emotionally, I'm conflicted. I love this sport. I grew up playing and adoring football. I love the brotherhood, teamwork, athletic grace that borders on superhuman, grit, pressure and, yes, contact. I love the contact.

In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical.

There are so many memories for me in Manchester. Everywhere I go, I think, 'I used to have boutiques here, clubs there, restaurants in that area.'

I never did anything for free. Other than dancing in clubs. I give that away for nothing.

Most of my players have come through academies with clubs. That's not a bad thing, but it's very different to what I grew up with.

I'm a football fanatic. I love the game of football. I love learning new things, and I love being taught things. So I try to learn as much as I can, and even at a young age, I was really focused on how to be better and trying to learn all the techniques.

I learned to play football in the streets. Every day of school, everyone came and played football. The street is a good school, and you learn many things there - resiliency, how to play against older players, and how to put up with or dodge kicks.

If Milan agrees to let me go, and if there's an agreement between the clubs, I would love to play for Madrid.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time.

Celtic are one of the great clubs of the world. There's a pressure here that's different. You have to win every game. There's not a club in England that has that.

I have travelled and I have played for some amazing clubs along the way. In Italy and at Sion, I enjoyed my time.

Every player needs a little time to adjust to new teammates and the mentality of the coach when you change clubs.

It's been a privilege for me, really, to play for one of the biggest clubs in the world, an iconic club, an institution.

Money is important, but the most important thing for me is to play football, and then I'm happy. OK, you want to earn a good amount of money to be secure, but if I chose money, I would go to Russia and already have a lot more. I like to play football, and that is it.