Football Quotes

"Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners"

John Steinbeck, Author

"Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

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

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"There are few secrets in football. So execute"

Hank Stram, Athlete

"I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can"

Hidetoshi Nakata, Athlete

"It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football"

Merlin Olsen, Athlete

"Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park"

Merlin Olsen, Athlete

"In football, time and space are the same thing"

Graham Taylor, Coach

"From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with the same energy and enthusiasm I gave to football without expecting the same results"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball"

Fred Frith, Composer

"Generalities don't count and won't help you in football"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher"

Daniel J. Evans, Politician

"The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public"

Phyllis Diller, Comedian

"The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity"

Lewis Grizzard, Writer

"This ain't a football game, we do this every day"

Earl Weaver, Coach

"I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment"

Steven Gerrard, Athlete

"I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night"

Steven Gerrard, Athlete

"The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices"

Franz Beckenbauer, Athlete

"One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always"

Aiden Wilson Tozer, Clergyman

"We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high"

Steven Gerrard, Athlete

"I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight"

River Phoenix, Actor

"It was a very exciting time for me to play professional football, finally"

Jim Otto, Athlete

"Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words"

Archibald MacLeish, Poet

"No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout"

Hugh Dancy, Actor

"The bottom line is winning. I want to do what we need to do to win football games"

Mike Singletary, Athlete

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