Top 1200 Football Coach Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Football has molded me in many ways, and I've had great experiences. But when I step back, I know that football is not what drives me. It's not really what's important.

Ever since I started professional football at 15 there was always that togetherness and solidarity in the dressing room - it is a sanctuary. When I started football everyone believed it.

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

Football, particularly Brazilian football, is about being happy, and that's what tricks do. It's part of our culture, at the end of the day, though, it's all about winning.

Football's football, if that weren't the case it wouldn't be the game that it is

I know what it takes to be a coach. I've gone through that. I think I came up short my last season. Lots of things were happening physically to me, and emotionally, perhaps mentally, too. I thought it was time to tend to more important things, like health and like family. I still enjoy that, and I don't think I have any need to go back to coach.

I refused to let my brother down, because he sacrificed for me. And I always told him, 'As long as one of us playing football, we both playing football.'

I'm a football player by trade. That's what I do, ... So I did everything I could to make myself a football player again.

As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

Every coach has to put himself in his club and to try to become a really important coach for his club. The most important thing is that the club can be happy, the fans can be happy, and the players can be happy with your work. This must be our task. Then, if you are No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, this is not important.

I love football. I really love football, As far as I'm concerned, it's the second best thing in the world.

My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.

They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.

The one great thing about football is that whatever happens it will manifest itself on the pitch. If it's right, you'll see it on the pitch, if it's wrong, it will be on the pitch. In business you can get fellas who are doing crooked deals and nobody knows anything about it. There is an ultimate honesty about football. Politics is part of the lying game, I wouldn't trust any of them. In football you can hide for a while, but ultimately the truth comes out. I always loved that.

Football without challenges isn't football.

Halas used to tell his players that football is what you make of it. It should not be what defines you, but football should be a stepping stone for what you achieve in the rest of your life.

I don't think it's much different at this level. It just feels like playing high school football, college football. It's the same games, the same routes.

I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad passed away. I came back and played and it was good therapy for me. Having a basketball family and a coach who understood and actually became like a father figure for that time was comforting to me, and I'm sure that will be comforting to Coleman.

Teams that can run the football, stop the run and take care of the football will win in the playoffs.

I enjoy playing but the moment the game ends, football ends and you can talk to me about anything except football because I don't feel comfortable.

I have been playing football since I was eight so I know how to play football. But no-one can really prepare you for the mental side of things and having 40,000 fans saying you're not a good player or you don't belong.

Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.

None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.

I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.

Jerry Sloan was a guy that I always respected, but I thought he was mean. Like, he was a guy that was just no nonsense. When coach and I got closer during the Olympics, I said, 'Coach, I always just thought you were this mean guy, but it was really nice to get to know you and your family.'

Who cares if they throw a football that has no air pressure? What does it matter? Why don't we let the quarterbacks do whatever they want to the football? I don't understand why there's any rules.

I love football, football is my life.

Football without critics wouldn't be football.

I always say the Premier League is the best in the world, and I still feel it is an honour to be playing here, but I think English football suits my game. Football is more physical here; the ref is not whistling every foul.

I don't dislike football. I love football.

Football is much more than 1,500 N.F.L. players. You've got to realize that the N.F.L. sets the standard for young players. Whatever they see on TV, that's what football is.

There's a loyalty attached to football, and it is more communal than theatre. If you go to the football, it is part of the structure of your life. For lots of people, theatre is a treat.

Wherever I go, I see kids playing football. Even if there is no grass and it's just sweaters for goals, you see how people love football.

I didn't play in the NFL, and I didn't play defensive line. But football, at the fundamental level, is football. It's about motivating people and getting the best out of them.

If you play NFL football, you play football, these are the consequences. There's choices and consequences in life for everything. There's consequences if you play football.

I think football is a game where people come together and football should bring everybody together, whether it is religion or skin colour or where you come from. We should be happy to enjoy that moment together, those 90 minutes where we can show love. Because I think football is love - and when love is not there, for what should we play?

When I got there, there were two sides: business and football. Business I understand. It was pretty obvious to me what we had to do. But the football side was like the Holy Grail.

I love playing football, and I'm pretty aggressive on the field. I'm a different person on the football field.

I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.

You have to just have football knowledge. Without football knowledge, it doesn't matter how much skill you have.

As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.

I wasn't good at football when I was young but I made myself get good at football because of my mentality.

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.

There are a lot of football clubs that are fantastic football clubs but how they treat footballers is another story.

As much as football can cause war, it can also cause peace. Football is a kind of Geiger counter of civilisation, or a catalyst for good as well as bad.

Football is the most important thing in my life, but I do have a life outside football and this is one part. The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand.

If I'm not playing football, I'm preparing to play football. That's kind of how I kind of view my life.

Football is not about possession or playing a nice passing game. Football is about winning games.

When I was growing up I don't have the chance to watch a lot of football, because I can't afford to watch football.

It's not really important whether we play beautiful football. It will be good if we play attacking football and score a lot of goals. But the main objective is to win.

When I was at school, you couldn't draw and be into football, too. If you were into art, then you were seen as an absolute pansy, and there was no way you'd be admitted to the guys' world of football.

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

I don't want to play anymore. I'm tired of football but also tired of people who work in football.

When Dad looked at football players, he would take them in his own image. That's what he grew up around; that's what he was when he was a master sergeant in the Korean War. That's what I took, and that's what I want on my football team.

I want to be playing competitive first-team football every week and not reserve team football.

If you're in college, if you're in high school, if you're in elementary school, if you're in a youth league, if you're in the NFL, football's football.

Asian football is the future of football.

A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.