Football Quotes

"All I know is, I was trying to win the football game. And the bottom line is, you have to do what you think is right. You have to go with your gut. And if you don't do that, then I think you regret a lot of things later on"

Mike Singletary, Athlete

"I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything"

Pat Summerall, Celebrity

"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you"

Paul Bryant, Coach

"I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated"

Kyle Chandler, Actor

"But I just want to be known for my football"

Jamie Redknapp, Athlete

"The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side"

John Elway, Athlete

"And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together"

Joan Collins, Actress

"As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field"

John Elway, Athlete

"I'm happy with the Arena Football League right now. I'm happy in Denver"

John Elway, Athlete

"By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do"

David Morse

"Football will always be my foremost passion"

David Ginola, Athlete

"I have been keeping myself fit. I am going on holiday next week in the Mediterranean so that I can really unwind after the football season and have a rest"

David Ginola, Athlete

"I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage"

Esther Williams, Actress

"I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that"

John Malkovich, Actor

"I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens"

David Ginola, Athlete

"I come from a football family which has really helped"

Frank Lampard, Athlete

"Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans"

Franz Beckenbauer, Athlete

"My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"We must become Icelanders in football, Israelis in defending our land, Japanese in technology"

Volodymyr Zelensky, President

"I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that, I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream"

Lionel Messi, Athlete

"I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy"

Lionel Messi, Athlete

"I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns"

John Leonard, Poet

"Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"Nine in the box... that's a football term"

Ricky Williams, Athlete

"I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things"

Ricky Williams, Athlete

"If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people"

William Petersen, Actor

"Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored"

Andre Benjamin, Musician

"Sometimes in football you have to score goals"

Thierry Henry, Athlete

"Football has been my life for as long as I can remember"

Jack Youngblood, Athlete

"Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit"

Graham Roberts, Actor

"I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school"

Ed O'Neill, Actor

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