Top 1200 Football Game Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Football unites, and no one can use a football platform for political means.

I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle.

I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don't ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.

It doesn't matter how I'm asked to play, or if the football is good or bad: I like football when I'm on the pitch, not when I'm on the sidelines.

I like to have the ball and play beautiful football. That's what the people want to see and what makes football so special.

Football is football; I don't care if you're doing it in Division II, NAIA, or in the SEC or anything in between.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.

We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.

We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?

I stopped playing football. And life wasn't easy without football.

I recognized from a young age that I wasn't a football player; I played football.

When you play Futures and Challengers for three, four years, you're playing in obscurity. You play the game for other reasons. You don't play the game for money or attention. You play the game because you like to play. You play the game because you enjoy the journey.

When I get out on the field, it's all about football. I love football.

Living in a small town you couldn't go anywhere on a Saturday where a store had the game on. If you were downtown you heard the game. If you were at the gas station you heard the game. I remember I would be mowing the lawn and I would stop for the Nebraska game. I would have it cranking outside.

English football is really different to football in other countries.

In football and even outside football, every time I've listened to Zlatan, I've made a good decision.

I'm not one of those football people who thinks and talks nothing but football.

I played football in college and what I really wanted to do was be a football coach.

It's so easy to confirm what you believe about somebody by the numbers how fast they are, how tall they are, how strong they are, how smart they are. And yet football is always been a game where heart, determination and strength of will and character has so much to do with it.

In football, there are so many great football players like Eden Hazard, Roberto Lewandowski and Neymar.

English football is different: always on the attack. Although one thing is clear. The best football is the Italian.

When I was in high school, my mom hated football. But then, the more I played, the more it grew on her. This game has done a lot for my family - not just from a financial standpoint, but it also helped bring my family together.

It's a team game. Not every game is going to be an all-star game.

It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.

Football is like my family: everything. It's my dream, what I have always wanted to do and without football I'm not happy.

I'm a professional, and I know in football that everything can change in one day, so I am excited to show everyone my football.

Football's football. You're going to come across the good and the bad, but you've got to take it all in your stride.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club, that's just normal.

I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.

The interesting thing about football is that football is the only sport where you quit playing when you get a lead.

I've learnt so much from playing football: I love football, and that's what I do. I enjoy myself, and I'm just trying to be happy.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

He was a huge football man - he loved football. He was a good parent, a great father, and brilliant with me.

Football is an American sport. Everyone loves it. I certainly would never want to ban football.

I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.

If you are an Oklahoma football fan, you have one of the best football programs in the nation.

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.

Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!

I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

I know my game is about trying to get past players and I know that if a bad tackle is coming my way, I have to jump or push my body out in front, but this is football. If they try to foul and target me, then I'm doing something good.

A lot of the things that I put before football, was really not fun anymore without football.

Even without football, football doesn't define Shaquem Griffin. It's who he can help that defines him.

I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.

My dad did call a lot of football, and in my opinion, he was the best football announcer on radio ever.

The power which football has is enormous. Football moves the masses.

Something that's Crunk is off the hook. It's popping, it's going down if it's Crunk. A football player listening to his Walkman as he's getting ready for the game, jumping up and down, he's Crunk.

Football is brutality. Football is career-ending, life-threatening injury just by stepping on the field.

I like to play football, and of course I like to play for Tottenham, but I try to enjoy every game because that's the most important thing, to have fun on the pitch, and then you can play good.

German football is very different to football in South America.

I'm looking forward to the intensity of football and how the people live football in Liverpool. It's a special club.

We definitely have a football mentality. My dad was a football player also, so just growing up, that's how it was.

My dad Chester was a pianist and later a well-known television entertainer so football was never really something that was on his radar. However when I was a young boy a family friend took me to see an Arsenal game and from that moment on I was totally and utterly hooked.

It's very tough in the U.K. For me, it was totally different. English football and French football are not the same.

Is this college football's version of Arena Football? These guys need to grow some hair on their peaches.

English football is evolving. It's no longer the game it used to be. Apart from the larger quantities of money which make it more attractive to foreign stars, the mentality is also different - everybody looks to win games no matter what, even if it means taking risks.

For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.

International football is one clog further up the football ladder