Top 1200 Football Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

My mother wouldn't let me play football because she was afraid I would get hurt, so I played flag football.

Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.

Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player!

We grew up with my family being very passionate about two sports, American football and British football.

Everybody doubts themselves. Every writer doubts themselves, every artist doubts himself, and every football player does.

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

Football is a game. So you need to enjoy your football.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.

I think everybody can say that Luis Suarez is a very good player. He's scored so many goals in the Premier League, and he is definitely a quality player.

When I was growing up, I played football, I loved football.

I feel more mature as a player and I have the opportunity to show why they were all talking about me a potentially good player a few years ago.

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

Since I was five or six years old, I just wanted to be a professional football player. I wanted to play against the best players. I wanted to play in big stadiums in front of big crowds, and I was desperate to play for my country one day, and thankfully, I was lucky enough that happened.

The passion the British people have for football - they live for football.

Football is a passion and I could not live that in Arabian football.

One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.

Nacho Monreal, another full-back, Spanish as well, top player, and he's a player I am close to. He's one of the players who has helped me the most.

The idea of developing football and winning trophies at Real Madrid does not fall in line with how I see football.

Women's football will always be different from men's football, but that doesn't mean you cannot still appreciate it. OK, so it might be a bit slower than the men's game, but then League Two football is slower than the Champions League, and it doesn't stop people turning out to see their local teams.

I wasn't the most technical player. But I was fast, and if I push the ball past a player, I can get there. Everyone always made fun of me in a good way for that.

I am a football fan, I've watched football my whole life. When my favourite team didn't do well I'd get angry.

I was a luxury player. Having been pampered at Tottenham for so long, I went into League One and had to graft and learn the ugly side of the game. I grew as a player.

Qatar is improving a lot in football, my colleague Xavi talks to me about the fantastic development of football here.

I was adapted to European football after playing in Germany for three years, but English football is very different to the Bundesliga.

Sushil is an experienced player, a big player.

A happy player is a good player, I think.

Aston Villa were signing this player and that player, and I was thinking this is my chance to get to the Premier League. I was a little bit over-eager to join them.

I don't watch football anymore, I gave that up. I got tired of the interviews after the games, because the winning players always give credit to God, and the losers blame themselves. You know, just once I'd like to hear a player say, 'Yeah, we were in the game, until Jesus made me fumble. He hates our team.'

Ronaldo is the best of the best, I mean not only as a football player but also as a human being. You can see how he developed and how devoted he is to really staying on top every year to excel. I think that is something unbelievable, and I said it before and will say it again: he is an athlete, and an athlete is a positive thing.

I don't watch football like outside of football, really.

Women are the same. We watch football; we play football. Why wouldn't we be out there giving our opinions on the sport ,too?

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

Dennis Lindsey and Coach Snyder gave me an opportunity to really show what I can do, and progress into the player I am now, and the player I'll be in the future. I'm forever grateful.

I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

I discovered early on that the player who learned the fundamentals of basketball is going to have a much better chance of succeeding and rising through the levels of competition than the player who was content to do things his own way. A player should be interested in learning why things are done a certain way. The reasons behind the teaching often go a long way to helping develop the skill.

I like the Common Goal initiative, the vision of football as a tool for social change and the power football has to improve the world.

Since a very young age, I've dreamt of being a professional soccer player, and from a psychological and mental aspect, I've tried to prepare myself to be a good player.

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.

When I started to play football as far I was concerned I just played football. I didn't want all the stuff around it, the press and that.

It brought Pittsburgh into the picture of football teams in the National Football League that, ‘OK, you have to deal with us now.’

I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football.

European football is the same as any other football.

There was a contact between a football player and a cheerleader, male I might add. That male cheerleader clipped me from the side as I was running full speed, or slower than full speed, but generally, in the upper quadrant of speed. And I hit the ground pretty good.

I was a tough player, but I wasn't the most talented player.

My time off is usually spent working out and getting better at football. When I come home and spend time with my little brother, we're out on the football field. We're working out or playing Madden. We're spending time with each other, but our quality time is football.

In football, in football clubs, there are many decisions that don't make business sense. Yes, there is always a lot of emotion involved.

In football you need to be versatile sometimes, because the most important thing is to win games and enjoy your football.

If you take guys that love the grind of football and who are passionate about football, it should click regardless if they have the proper talent.

In short, we accumulate all the information that we can accumulate, wherever that information comes from, and try to analyze it and make the best decision we can make for our football team on a case-by-case basis. It's the same for every single player; the process is the same.

Mum tries to keep our mind on other things as well as football. But my dad's always football.

If I can be a role model, or if I can maybe make another manager play a young player coming through rather than buy a player, that's incredible.

Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.

I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someone in football, they can't turn up to training the next day. In politics they're still on the pitch. Gordon would still have been a big player.

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