Top 1200 Football Clubs Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Football is not just in Europe, there is football all over the world so I am always open to the idea of managing anywhere in the world.

Football's become more physical. I would have liked to have been born 10 or 20 years earlier to enjoy football with the same commitment and desire but without the toughness it has now.

Gradually, football has seen its appeal slip at the most basic levels. Pediatricians are advising parents not to let young children play organized football too early in life.

Thank God I had football. I remember when it used to rain, all the kids would run outside and play football in the puddles, just splashing around, having the best time.

I really want to get involved in football again at some point. I know I'm getting older, but my life has just turned out a different way after I retired from football.

I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.

I've no problem with Neil Lennon. I'm thrilled for him to be interested in me. He tried to sign me for Bolton but football is football.

I was enjoying my football, even though it wasn't really going well. That's when I said to my dad, who as a New Zealander was very keen on me playing cricket, that I would choose football.

If my girl ends up playing football, we probably got a lot of problems. I'll encourage her to do whatever, but playing football ain't one of them.

One of the things I'd bring to Villa if I was in charge is the idea that winning is important in football, but winning while playing offensive football is the best of all.

I used to go play football matches in the morning, and I'd go straight from me football game to a dance competition.

I think Together #WePlayStrong is a big step for football. This project is about building interest and professionalism and making younger women want to play football at a high level.

I don't really like the business side of football, but I just like adding good players to our football team.

It is clear that if people know me through football, they would think I am one of the most hated players in football, that is clear.

It's great to understand football - it never stops. Since I started playing football, I always learn from every coach. It's great.

A lot of sprinters aren't football players. I'm a football player. That's the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game. I'm totally different than any other track guy.

Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

I think that's awesome to have a former player in the GM role, somebody that not only understands the game of football but has played the game of football.

Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.'

I relate football with boxing, with a street fight. In both cases there is always one moment, a second, in which someone shows fear in their eyes, in their body. In football it's exactly the same.

We didn't have football boots, and we used a broken tennis ball instead of a football. I didn't use a proper ball until I was 11.

You can play football in Bayern, in Barcelona, in Manchester, in London, wherever. In the end, it's football, and you want to play with the best.

My parents weren't very sporty, and football wasn't part of my everyday life. I was never a massive football fan either, but, like everyone else, I used to watch matches on TV.

My parents wanted me to stay in England because they love the football here and how the people feel about football. It was important for them, too, that I stayed in the Premier League.

There's no point in playing underage football until you are 23. You've got to be able to play in games, cope in men's football and that almost certainly means that you have to go to the lower leagues.

If you take a wrong step but you're still in that football position, you can just react and change directions. I think for the most part young guys need to work on their football position. Get in their stance and hold it as long as possible. Work on your flexibility, especially in the hips, so you can hold that longer. A good football position will help you be more mobile and give you better leverage in the trenches.

I like many things in English football - everyone lives and breathes it here. Of course, that doesn't mean I don't like Spanish football.

It's what I do my entire life when I'm not doing music. If I'm in a hotel room in Sweden, or on a plane to Vancouver, I'm watching football. I'll try to talk about other stuff, too, but football is a lifestyle.

I am and always have been a football guy. My relationship with 'Monday Night Football' lasted 21 years, which is unprecedented for any theme song to be on the air that long.

Football is to be enjoyed and I've enjoyed my life in football for many years, it's the pinnacle of my career and I want to enjoy it the most.

Like any offensive lineman worth his shoulder pads, I'm a mudder. Football's just not football without a healthy dose of slipping, sliding, snow, or rain.

Having been a football player, most viewers associated me with just that. It was tough to go from football to basketball, but what really helped was that my show, 'Inside Stuff', was personality driven.

I loved playing football with my brothers. I would go to school as well, but I loved football, so I played it a lot when I was a kid.

I'm just going to continue focusing on becoming a better football player, attacking the offseason with the mindset of getting stronger and doing everything that I can to show that when the time comes, I'm ready to play football.

If you ask me how did I do at United, I will say it was my best year ever, given the circumstances I was working under. We played football that was quite alright. But it's not football that is appreciated in England.

I used to go play football matches in the morning, and Id go straight from me football game to a dance competition.

Football is the best team sport in the world, and it is good to hear that more and more kids are playing football in India.

I wasn't happy with how I left England. I didn't like where my mind was football wise. I felt like football was coming second.

Europe is leading the world in the sport of football. I want to utilize my experience from Europe to support the development of football in Asian countries.

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

In Dutch football you see a lot of individual quality, but in American football it's really about teamwork. That really appeals to me.

I started out playing football in the streets, playing barefoot like all the boys there - we didn't have the money for football boots.

I sometimes get frustrated with how important Dallas Cowboys' football is to people. It's extremely important to me, too, but football is what I do.

I played youth football through the fifth grade and really enjoyed it, but Tampa Prep doesn't have a football program. Wrestling was the only hard physical contact sport there, so I tried it.

English football is a lot different to Spanish football but Soldado is an international for Spain, he is a player who has become accustomed to playing against great teams - and he has always scored goals.

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.

By the time I was 10 years old, my entire life was football. Training, reading, watching, even playing football on PlayStation. I was totally focused on it. I especially loved the creative players - the maestros.

When I'm not training or playing, I'm watching football or watching something football-related on my phone, or about our next rival.

I was offered the opportunity at the Mariners to pass on my experiences and wisdom in order to develop the football club back into the football club that it once was.

I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.

To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

Away from football, life is not just football. People do not see it how life goes on for us off the field.

I just love sports: basketball, baseball, football. As a kid I did it all. But in my heart, I'm a football player. There's nothing like it. It's what I live for. Ever since I could walk, I've been drawn to it.

Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

Coach Amodu without question is a colossus and football icon and has over the years made meaningful contribution to Nigerian football both at club and international levels.

I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.

I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge.

My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

I don't differentiate between racism in football to racism in life so, therefore, as a football manager I knew that I would get racist abuse.