Top 1200 Great Football Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Since Japan is little known in football in the world, we want to play good football and make a huge impact so that we can make the world realise the presence of the Japan football team.

Everything with the draft process, from the combine to visits to pro days, that's great but it's not football.

I had other interesting offers, but for me, it had to be a top club. When you look at Arsenal, with a fantastic manager, good environment, and never any bad press surrounding the club, they are playing attractive football and have a great stadium with great fans.

I really like Kante, I admire him, he's a guy who plays great football.

Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

I know how much football means in England. They love it. That's why it's great to be here.

One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams.

Tournament football is unlike anything else. The campaign can be great, but a finals is a different challenge.

In football, there are good and bad times, but if you are a great side, you can be confident of winning trophies again.

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.'

Fans have their own idea about who to hire; that's what makes football great.

When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.

I've always admired great football managers, and Sir Alex Ferguson had so much success.

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.

I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.

My dad had a great career and if I could win a tenth of what he did in football, I'd be happy.

I was lucky enough to experience an exceptional period with City. We won so much and played great football.

Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.

In football, if you don't have the best O-line or receivers, maybe you're not as good of a quarterback as you can be. And it goes vice versa. If you're an average quarterback and you have a great O-line and great receivers, your play gets lifted.

I want to play Premier League football and with a great team like Bournemouth.

Not only do you need great lyrics, a great message, a great story, great vocals, great chords... you also need great instrumentation, great editing, great sonics, great mixing, and great mastering. It all comes together to make something truly great, and I think each element combines together to create a powerful impact on the consumer.

The great thing about football is that it's a game that involves so many people.

It is great to hear that Italian football now has many supporters in Asia.

Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is.

I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.

God that's a great game. I wish I'd played my whole career in flag football.

I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.

Arsene Wenger's mentality has been to bring together footballers who bring happiness in our sport, the type of players I like to watch. I've followed him since he was in Japan, and he always was a guardian of the art of football - football with happiness and football played well.

I don't really put too much pressure on myself. The only time people feel pressure is when they put it on themselves and listen to the outside stuff. I have great teammates and great coaches that do the right things around me that allows me to just focus on the game of football.

You know that if you play football, you have to try to do the maximum, so I'm always doing the maximum for myself because when I retire from football, I want to sit down and think I did something good - I won this title, and I won this title. People will talk about what you have won, and that is the most important thing in football.

I have a lot of great players around me. I have the best O-line in football. It's what's expected.

I'm absolutely aware of the great effort Juventus Football Club has made to bring me here.

I represent college football and have been doing it for 26 years. It's a great thrill.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

For me posting videos on YouTube and interacting with people on Twitter is a great release from the stresses of football.

I think it was everything about him: his work ethic, his desire to be the best football player that he can be. He just woke up and he was just Ray Lewis, so he did pretty much everything great. He was a great teammate.

I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in the offseason, I started playing basketball, and I just fell in love with the game. I've been playing basketball ever since 5th grade.

Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

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.

In life you cannot accept some things, but football has given me a lot and a great passion.

One of the best things if you are a football player is to see the faces of the kids, when they see you and are dreaming of being like you one day. That's a big responsibility, to be a good image for those kids. A football player is more than just a football player.

I think my gymnastic background helped a great deal with my agility when I took up football seriously.

I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here.

Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.

Football is a great environment for a movie because there is such passion for it and so much adrenaline.

I always said I was good football player, I'm fine as an actor, but I'm a great dad.

Football has changed - you need a great team, not just one player. No one can make the difference alone.

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.

Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support in my football and in everything. They've been very close to me and we have a great relationship.

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.

If all you had to be was a comedian to be a good football player. Bob Hope would be great. But you have to perform.

Great as Alabama's football teams are, the golf team I played on there in 2012 was unreal.

Football is fantastic because you can live great emotion through a big competition.

I don't get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What's the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football.

What's so amazing in today's society is people look up to football players. And as a football player, you have a platform. And it's so much more important than any touchdown or trophy or anything you could win with football. Its taking that platform and be able to influence people.

Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing.

College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.

I intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy. I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't. Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

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.