Top 1200 Football Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

It's something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It's the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it'd definitely be a dream come true.

I'm a versatile player, I'm a technical player, and I play with my head, but I can progress further.

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

Guardiola has never been a great player; he was just a good player.

He's a gritty hockey player, he's got good vision, he's an intelligent player.

I started playing football on the streets; I grew up playing football on the streets with my friends, and that's why I was brought up the way I was. That's the school I had - the street football.

I think it is rare that one player really hates another player on a team.

I'd no longer be the same player without my rigorousness, and certainly not the player Arsenal wanted.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

I went to Everton, and it's levels - the higher up you get, you are under more and more scrutiny as a football player. You have to learn to deal with it at that scale and gradually progress to be able to deal with it at an even higher scale.

It's a basic, elemental universe, one of the last remaining zones where violence and domination sort out who is top dog. That's football's glory, and its curse. The game of football doesn't transfer well to the real world. You can't treat your friends, neighbors, or loved ones the way you treat your opponent on the football field.

I was the No. 1 player coming into college and I want to be the No. 1 player heading into the NFL. That's definitely one of my goals.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

I wanted to go somewhere I could be an important player. Be the player the whole city looks up to.

Strengths, I believe deep down that I am a football player, just have to do whatever it takes to win games, whatever it takes to fulfill my role on the offense and help my team win games.

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

The bigger you become as a player and the more success you have as a player, the spotlight definitely becomes brighter.

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

I rather win one championship as a key player than four championships as a part-time player.

I'm not a mean player. You'll notice I never pick on a player who has a number above 30.

There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player.

The player I was overseas, three-point shooting wasn't my first thing. I was a one-on-one, driving-to-the-basket type player.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldnt have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

I thought I was prepared for England but I was not prepared for things outside football, my private life. I am not very proud that fans could probably name three of my former girlfriends. I don't think it damaged my football results. But my image outside football it damaged, yes.

A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.

When you go into a game, and there's something that was drawn up the way it was supposed to be drawn up, and you missed the throw or the catch, as a receiver, it's something where you feel bad about that. You can always regret just missing it, but as a football player, you have to move on to the next play.

Theres something incredible about putting a helmet on just before a game; its a feeling only a football player knows. Your vision narrows, and the whole world shrinks. You cant hear much of what goes on outside you, but you can hear yourself breathe and you can feel yourself sweat.

I don't want to get into who's the No. 1 player. The player who is the most electrifying to me is Cole Anthony.

Morata is a player that I appreciate a lot, he has been a top player for many years.

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player.

Al Horford is a very good player; a great team player.

I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father.

The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.

To be a great player or a good player in the NBA, I have to work on my perimeter game.

I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.

There is nothing you can be doing in lacrosse on your own in the fall that would be better for you than going to football or soccer practice every day. You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.

With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.

So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.

I want people to say that an African basketball player is the best player in the whole world.

Harry Kane is, of course, a very important player for England because he's the best player in the world.

I think a player like Van Persie can play for every team because he's a top player.

I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.

Being an 18 year-old football player, there are temptations. There are girls. There's going out to parties. There's doing this; there's doing that. There is drinking and blah, blah, blah. But at the end of the day it all comes down to maturity and what you have to do as a man to reach that next level. You have to be disciplined and make sacrifices.

All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.

When a big player leaves, a big player leaves. You're at a big club like Liverpool, another big player will come in the future.

I am a physical player, no doubt about that, but a dirty player? That's not my reputation.

I may not have played men's football, but I've been at World Cups as a player. I know the emotions. I've been in quarter finals, a semi-final. I'd been substituted and sat on the bench watching us lose a penalty shoot-out. I know what happens, what you need when the pressure's on.

Johan was more than just a great soccer player. He was a role model who promoted world peace. He brought the values of education into the game of football and proved that on the field, everyone is equal - Jews, Muslims and Christians - that running fast and playing well will lead to victory in spite of discrimination and racism.

Yaya is a great player, a top player that plays in every part of the role.

At age 31, in 1981, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

I'm trying to lead by example. But I'm definitely challenging myself to be a better player, the player I want to be.

You can be the best player in one game and then the worst player ever in the next.

Player for player, there’s ?no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.

Every big player who leaves Arsenal is a massive loss. But no player here is bigger than the club.

Me and my dad, all we talk about is football. I do realize, for whatever our issues are and whatever repressions there may be, talking about football is how we communicate. He'll call me up and say 'This is what happened at the football.' But what he's also saying is 'I love you.'

I don't want to be the guy that gets inspired by one player. I like to watch every player.

I'm a softball player. I'm a soccer player. I played tennis every day. I love being outside.

If one player does not trust the other players, that player should not play.

Football has always been a contact sport, and it's always going to be a violent sport, and there are going to be repercussions from that. But every player that ever played this game and will play this game, they're signing up for it.