Top 1200 Football Field Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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 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.

Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

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.

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.

I'm not a nice guy on the field, and I've never really respected a guy who's been a 'nice guy' on the field. I want opposition to be hard, to play to win the game for their team.

There is no level playing field. Any time our society says that a powerful chemical company has the same right as a low income family that's living next door, that playing field is not level, is not fair.

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.

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.

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.

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

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.

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.

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.

Something that's hard for me, I remember being a child in the '80s and looking at this field. It was a field I wanted very much to go into, but I didn't see people who looked like me working in video games. You can't really be it if you can't see it.

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

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.

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.

When we got down to the Super Bowl in '85, against the Patriots, we're down there on the field checking things out. This helicopter flies overhead, probably taking pictures, and McMahon just moons it. He mooned the helicopter from the field.

I knew very little about Rugby. But, I think it helps in terms of an American audience the game is enough like football in that it's a battle for field position and you score by running into what looks a lot like an end zone. I think in terms the nuance of the game, Americans won't get that stuff. I think in terms of the peanut butter and jelly version of what you need to know, I think it's pretty clear.

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

As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.

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.

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.

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.

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

Conferences with open attendance are very important for the stimulation of young people or other people who are new in the field. ... The field of high-energy physics is, as you know, very strongly in the hands of a clique and it is hard for an outsider to enter.

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

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

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

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.

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'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.

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 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'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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

As a player, I'm going to do everything I can to help the organization as a whole. On the field, off the field, I'm going to do everything in my power.

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.

Fans are so important to football clubs, and you have to respect that everyone has got an opinion, but we have got to do our stuff on the football pitch.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Before I found my peace, I was way too much in my head. I found myself on the field in my own thoughts. I've learned that there's a time and a place for my thoughts. The most important thing when I'm on the field is to just be in the moment and let it all go.

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

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 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.