Top 1200 Football Game Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Before replays, football telecasts were filled with dead spots... It really destroyed the momentum of the telecasts. Replays gave you something to show during the pauses. It seemed to make the game go faster.

I have respect for Pep and what he won, and what he did for football because he changed some mentalities in football.

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

I love to play football. Why would I run away from playing football?

I give all my life to football; I only think about football. This is what is on my mind all the time.

A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours - one reason the globe, if looked at from a certain height, is a cluster of lights surrounded by enormous patches of dark.

Senior tennis is like the younger game in slow motion. It is much more of a backcourt game. The player who had a big game in his prime finds it harder to play that same game as a senior. But any senior who could lob well when he was young can still hit a good lob.

For almost 15 years, professional football is about yourself: How can I improve? How can I make myself better? Before winning a game was the short-term reward that meant everything. Now, I can look at the bigger picture.

Football runs in my blood, and I did really want to play football.

English football is a type of football which excites me a lot.

My first love is football. When I get the chance, I play football for fitness.

I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread.

Well, I wanted to play football and I chased football for a little while.

Turkish people live football. Football is a passion of theirs. They demonstrate it with love and affection for their team.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

I didn't even grow up with football. I learned the rules of football on this show [The League].

I have always been in love with football. As a child, I started playing football.

The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

I have had a wonderful time. I don't think things could have gone any better for me because I was football-mad as a boy, and to get a job watching the game and going to all the major events I have been to has been very rewarding.

It's football. The game hasn't changed. There's not tons of new concepts every year that go in. Offense is offense; it's our job to move the ball, to score points, and keep our defense off the field.

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

I probably watch less than one hour of television a week. And when I do watch television, it's usually a football game. Sometimes I'll watch a news broadcast for a few minutes. Otherwise, I don't have time.

Really, you just play football; that's all I can do... I don't change. I'm going to always play tough, hard - that's the way I was brought up at Nebraska, where I really learned football from the Pelinis and that staff and continue to play hard, play blue-collar football.

You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.

The sack is a sad fact of life for football managers. I have been axed three times. The chairman at Notts County was on record as saying it's the worst thing they ever did. Within a couple of years they were one game from losing league status.

I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.

I have a tremendous respect to all French Federation of Football football teams, players, and supporters.

I think the No. 9 will always be in football. You need the proper No. 9s in football; that's my opinion.

It was either football or hockey. I chose football, and I think it's worked out OK so far.

I wanted to play football and wear the Indian jersey, but there was no women's football team.

Scottish football doesn't suit me perfectly, how I want to play football.

I grew up playing football. I'm a huge hockey and football fan.

We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.

I went to Brigham Young University on a football scholarship. I wasn't a football player; I was a place kicker.

I have had a craze for football since my schooldays; more than cricket I love football.

I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.

I didn't go into football to earn money. It was because I liked playing football.

If chronic bashing of the head could destroy a boxer's brain, couldn't it also destroy a football player's brain? Surely someone in the history of football had thought to look for dementia pugilistica. Unlike boxers, football players wear helmets, but a helmet can't fully protect the head from damaging impact.

The World Cup focus is football. Team U.S.A. is more than football.

The limits are set by the referees. Those are the ones who are in charge of making sure this is football and not American football.

Football does not stop. Spanish football is proud of its past, but we will look to the future.

Fans think that we're, like, football 24/7. We're all about life after football, too.

Top players now will get bonuses for winning competitions or reaching various stages of them, scoring goals, or keeping clean sheets, but most don't play football for the money, because it's not been in the game that long. They do it for the love of playing.

I had the good luck to have the experience of training with fantastic football players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Ozil, Modric, and I also played for Real Madrid B. That was a fantastic experience because it was my first international experience as a football player and taught me a lot as a football player.

I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.

Football's football, it can change very quickly. I know that, I've experienced that many times.

Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends

In the 123rd minute of the semifinal game at the Olympics against Canada, I scored the game-winning goal that brought us to the finals. You can't replicate those do-or-die moments in practice or a friendly game.

I love playing football and being in teams that have the ball and play good football.

The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool - it is not a usual.

For me, football is football. I'm a fan; I'm passionate. I feel lucky to be in the position that I am.

I play football because I love the sport so much and for the sake of playing football.

We play a sport. It's a game. At the end of the day, that's all it is, is a game. It doesn't make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you're no better. By losing a game, you're no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same.

When someone tells me they've never been to a race, I tell them that the first one they should go to is Bristol, Tennesee. The shape of the track, the energy, and excitement under the lights is similar to what you might get at a stick-and-ball game in college football or the NFL.

I've been engulfed in sports since I was a 2-year-old; I picked up any kind of ball - a basketball, baseball, football - I just loved to play something. I loved the energy of being in arenas and watching the game on TV.

When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.

English football is very strong physically, but Spanish football is more technical.

I grew up as a swimmer. And my brother was a football player and I played football.