Top 1200 Football Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Excluding nobody, I'm the best player in the National Football League.

I believe that, deep down at heart, I'm a football player.

How can I be a great football player when you're not happy with yourself?

All the Asian people respect me and watch me. But I don't want people to think of me as an Asian player. I am just a football player.

This is life. This is football. Mistakes happen to any player.

Kiko Alonso is a tremendous football player.

A lot of things create a distraction, and when you're on a quest as a football team you want to limit distractions. I'm very much on board with that because I am a football player, and things can be distracting. We have 53 people that we have to make sure aren't distracted, because we only have 16 turns to do it, so every one matters so much.

I've always prided myself on being a football player.

You never get to see the intimate side of a football player.

Watching football is such an underrated thing to help you grow as a player.

Having the ball makes you a football player, not running after it.

Every player wants to play. That's pretty normal. Every player is unhappy when he's on the bench. That's pretty normal, too. But it's football: only 11 players can start, and the coach has his game plan for each game.

I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.

Your job is never secure as a football player - or coach.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

I was not a very good football player when I started out.

I consider Zidane to be an amazing player who has written football history.

As a football player, you would like to play each match.

I think Marshawn Lynch is the most important player in this football game.

The pitch is the most important material for a football player.

I've thought about what I could accomplish in football, but when you read about Mike Webster and Dave Duerson and Ray Easterling, you read all these stories, and to be the type of player I want to be in football, I think I'd have to take on some risks that, as a person, I don't want to take on.

At the end of the day, who you are as a man is more important than who you are as a football player.

Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith.

I want to be remembered as a championship football player.

I think the part that people get confused is that when you come in National Football League at a young age, they tell you to try to look for other things to do, and be ready for everything else in your life just in case. But as soon as you have a bunch of success, they think that's the only thing you can do, that you can only be a football player. I think God has gifted me with so many other things other than just football, and that's what I want to bring to the world.

My foot, for a football player, is very beautiful!

Even when I was growing up as a young boy, when I was playing schoolboy football, there were other guys who were as good as I was, maybe some even better technically. But I was prepared to stick to what was going to make me become a professional football player when I left school, and that was a lot of sacrifice and because my attitude was right.

I want to be the best player in the history of Egyptian football.

That's the nicest part of football; you can't do everything to stop a player.

I think, as quarterback and as a football player, you always want to get better.

I fell like I'm a well-rounded football player.

A player who isn't playing football isn't ready for the international team.

Maradona, I think, is not a football player but he's something different. He was unbelievable.

We get so enamored by speed, size, vertical jumps, and all these other measurables and tangibles. But what makes a great football player isn't size or speed. Great football players know how to play the game, and they push harder than guys twice their size.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a football player. So I achieved my dream.

Football is important, but my family and faith are also important, and no matter how good a football player I am, I knew I still needed to be a good member of the church. Having that spiritual connection helped me throughout the season. It brought balance. I felt better about myself and saw improvements in all aspects of my life.

Lampard is a great player, not only for Chelsea, but in world football.

I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

Every football player knows when his time is up.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

I like to play football. I'm an aggressive player and also a leader.

I think of myself as a complete person, not just a football player and athlete.

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

I was born a football player and I love this game.

I'm Michael Sam, I'm a football player, and I'm gay.

I play for pleasure, for the passion that I have as a football player.

I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.

It's hard for a player to plan for the future, especially in a game like football.

I think every child in my town wants to be a football player.

I think I'm a model in a football player body sometimes.

A football player at any level must set goals.

You have to deal with a lot of things when you are a professional football player, and that is not so easy.

I grew up watching my older brother very closely who was a football player and a star in my hometown of Fremont, Ohio. My love of the game started early because of watching him. My neighborhood played a ton of football, pickup games outside in the backyards of the apartments where I grew up.

I was pretty much seen as a basketball player coming out of high school. Football was my second love, but luckily, I turned out to be pretty good. Something just drew me to football; besides, I ended up being too short for my position in basketball.

I didn't grow up playing football. I wanted to be a basketball player.

I don't judge my success in life as a football player.

I'm a football player, you know? My film talks for me.

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform.

I've been a versatile player since I started playing football.