Top 1200 Play Football Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.

If you play football and fans are booing or saying negative stuff, it makes me play better.

I needed to play football, and if that was for Barca then great, but all I wanted was to play.

Football-wise, I help with my 12-year-old and his team, and I play football on a Friday with my mates and that's about it. I always look out for results at Rovers and Southampton mainly, and I go and watch Liverpool when I can.

Players who play in the Premiership play everywhere - they are strong, quick, and have good technique. It is the best football.

Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.

At the start, you don't earn a great deal, so you have to work other jobs if you want to play football. When I was at Doncaster, I couldn't solely do football. I had to work; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to live.

I've never needed to play for money. I play because I love football.

Being a young parent, you can play cricket, football, and I can play chess with my son. In fact, he plays the piano better than I do.

If you want to play dominant football, you need to get the ball, think fast, and play quick combinations in small spaces.

Individually, I am very happy because I can play in every game. I can be on the pitch and do what I like to do, which is play football.

I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and 'play the game,' and these are the best of training for any game of life.

The football in Spain is more about skill and technique. Every team tries to play good football. The physical side, with plenty of running and hard tackling, plays more of a role in the Bundesliga.

I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then Id go baseball, and then Id go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.

I have been playing football since I was eight so I know how to play football. But no-one can really prepare you for the mental side of things and having 40,000 fans saying you're not a good player or you don't belong.

Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move - you don't interrupt.

My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'

Playing football and being a tight end scoring points, it's awesome to see so many members throughout the United States join to play fantasy football, to expand the sport, to make the game more interesting while you're watching.

They say I couldn't play football, I was too small. They say I couldn't play basketball, I wasn't tall. They say I couldn't play baseball at all and now everyday of my life, I ball.

If you play football, you have to try to do the maximum, so I'm always doing the maximum for myself because, after my football career, I want to sit down and think I did something good.

If you speak to girls who play football alongside lads, they'll tell you that you almost have to earn the right to play with them. It's annoying that you have to do that, but once you've done it, the barriers are down.

I think I've developed my own style, we play the football I like and that I want to play.

I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.

Football leads to a crime rate among people that play in the NFL that is less than the gen pop, the general population. The numbers have been run. It's just that people who play football are stars and, as such, what they do occurs with greater media scrutiny. So when one of them happens to engage in some sort of questionable behavior, it happens to (in a lot of it people's minds) speak for the whole sport and everybody that plays it.

I liked to play against all the teams in the National Football League or the American Football League, because they were always a challenge.

At some point, we're going to have to get to the point where, before you play football, I'm going to test you at some stage in your life to determine if you're susceptible to concussions. We need a test that shows us that your brain is situated a certain way that puts you at risk. If you are susceptible, don't play football.

All players, whether they're Spanish, French, English, Welsh, want to play football. To play.

I don't want to play anymore. I'm tired of football but also tired of people who work in football.

We're gonna play fast, we're gonna play physical, we're gonna play furious, and we're gonna play contact football.

Your best ability is availability and if you're not on the field, they can't use you and you don't play. So, I try to play as much football as I can.

Tottenham play some of the most attractive football in the Premier League - we have a beautiful style of play.

Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a Carling Cup game in a small city, and it could result in a draw - the excitement, the spirit, the atmosphere - that's the real beauty of football in England.

If you play in France, Spain or Italy it is not the same football, especially when you play in England. Every game is very difficult.

Yeah I play a lot of 'FIFA' and 'NHL' - I don't want to just play football, I like to mix it up.

Everyone wants to play like Spurs. We want to play attractive football, get the ball forward, and create chances with good possession.

I love to play football, and when I come on the pitch, I want to do my best to help the team. It's up to the coach the position I play.

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

"Chess has definitely helped me understand a lot of the strategy of football. In chess, good offense is often an exercise in putting multiple points of pressure on one square. In football, offensive play design (particularly passes) involves putting multiple points of pressure on one player." "In chess, you often give your opponent a move that looks strong for him, but it turns into a trap. Football is the same way. I've always thought of defense in football as being totally reactive. But now I understand the ways in which football defenses force the offense to make certain choices."

To play in atmospheres that are intense is when I play my best football.

I drove my Mum crazy, because I wouldn't go out and play football or join the Boy Scouts, I'd just sit at home and play the guitar.

First, you have to play good football so that you get to play for a good team. Then, hopefully, you achieve such a level that you are invited to play for your national side, in time for a World Cup if possible. Then, obviously, play a good World Cup. That's my dream.

For a young player like me, it is good to play for a club that can get to the semi-finals because one of the reasons I play football is for these big games.

I don't just get bogged down in, 'I want to win.' There's something even greater than that. And that's the way that you play the game. I want to play beautiful football. That's our purpose: to go out and play the game at the highest level, play it the right way.

None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.

I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I'd go baseball, and then I'd go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.

I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it.

We try and play football in a positive way. Any team has to be defensively organised, but you have to look at the attributes of the players and play to their strengths.

I started to play football when I was about 10; my father brought me to one school because there were more pitches where we could play.

If I'm not playing football, I'm preparing to play football. That's kind of how I kind of view my life.

Do I enjoy the aggression of English football? No. I like to play football. I like to score goals. I like to do things well.

When it comes down to why we play football, we play to win.

Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place, and to play the game, and these are the best of training for any game of life.

I always play football in my team, and I know that if you play too much long ball, then it's difficult.

Brazilian football has always been very much admired in Japan and, of course, after my participation and so many other Brazilians, it was like they created a new style of play in homage to Brazilian football.

I used to go play football matches in the morning, and Id go straight from me football game to a dance competition.

I haven't forgotten how to play football. But I need to play each weekend.

For me, I want to put football in the best possible way: where the girls play professionally, get the sponsorships they deserve, and set themselves up after football so that they're not struggling and asking themselves what they're going to do.

I just loved the kind of people who play football. Definitely takes courage to play this game.

I didn't pick wrestling over football. My coaches picked that for me. I never wanted to wrestle in college. I always wanted to play football. They thought I was too small, but I had a lot of heart.