Top 1200 Football Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

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.

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 have always tried and always believed in myself, so I went after it, to do my best, to achieve my dream, and I always thought I'd achieve my dream. And I always, always wanted to be a football player.

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

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.

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

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

English football is really different to football in other countries.

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.

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

The main thing is to be in the quarter-finals and it doesn't matter if you play beautiful football or if you're playing ugly football, you have to win.

I'm quite a shy person, but I know I'm a good football player. That's just the way I am. That's the way I grew up. My grandmother brought me up, and she is the same way. She's understated, but she knows what she's worth.

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

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

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

My football philosophy is to win as many games as possible. Brand of football? I believe in mixing a bit of everything. You have to.

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

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

I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

I played many times as a player in European competition and I know how it can make a player better to play those kind of games.

Ronaldo is brilliant, Messi more my kind of player. He sees the game so clearly. He can score, create; he's the complete player - the best ever, probably.

As a Tottenham player I'd love to see more signings. It would lift me seeing a top player come through the door.

There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

International football is one clog further up the football ladder

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

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.

My dad is a fan of football, too, and did a good job of making me understand the history of football.

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

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

German football is very different to football in South America.

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.

In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

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

I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence, he’ll try and get his way through it some way, but the young player will fight for you.

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

From the start, all I did was play football. I briefly played badminton and won a tournament when I was 12, but really, it was always football.

I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

I was a 'Warcraft' player myself, and when I pitched my take on the film, they said right away, 'That is a player. That is the game.' So I've had their support from the very beginning.

I've had the opportunity to play with Neymar on the national team. Now I'm playing alongside Messi. He's a different player, but he's the best player in the world.

I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.

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

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

A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser.

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

I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.

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

I'm the football manager. I make all the football decisions that evolve around the game that's being played on a Saturday.

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

Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football.

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

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

English football is very physical, much more so than Spanish football - I felt it in the first match.

You play football to enjoy the game and the manager wants to be happy on the sidelines watching unbelievable football.

It's great to be compared to a great player like Tracy McGrady, but I think I'm my own type of player. I'm 6'10" and a bit bigger than he is as a player. I also think I'm a bit different and play a different position. He's more of a guard, and I can play all around through five.