Football Quotes

"These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros"

Troy Vincent, Athlete

"I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football"

Stephen Chow, Actor

"Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games"

Solange Knowles, Actress

"I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please"

Samuel Barber, Composer

"Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport"

Duffy Daugherty, Coach

"Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom"

Jimmy Greaves, Athlete

"It is wonderful... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special"

Frank Gifford, Athlete

"I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic"

Dennis Bergkamp, Athlete

"We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast"

Bubba Smith, Athlete

"I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day"

Zinedine Zidane, Athlete

"I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it"

David Storey, Novelist

"We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football"

Michael Strahan, Athlete

"I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football"

David Walliams, Actor

"When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway"

Terry Bradshaw, Athlete

"Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word"

Jon Postel, Scientist

"When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!"

Michael Strahan, Athlete

"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein"

Joe Theismann, Athlete

"My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach"

Harry Mathews, Author

"In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football"

Dennis Bergkamp, Athlete

"I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful"

Dennis Bergkamp, Athlete

"Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games"

Darrell Royal, Coach

"When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys"

Catherine Bell, Model

"I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys"

Catherine Bell, Model

"Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it"

Irwin Shaw, Novelist

"God blessed me to play football"

Terrell Owens, Athlete

"It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round"

Rafer Johnson, Athlete

"I started out wanting to coach football"

Lee Majors, Actor

"When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'"

Lev Yilmaz, Artist

"There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"Because I love football and I love the footballers"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team"

Ron Jaworski, Athlete

"Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass"

Ron Jaworski, Athlete

"I love to see Favre playing his best football, and if his mind his right, he'll probably have a fine season"

Ron Jaworski, Athlete

"I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done"

Bill Nighy, Actor

"No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered"

Rio Ferdinand, Athlete

"If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play"

Rio Ferdinand, Athlete

"I'm on the cover of the lingerie football swimsuit calendar this year"

Trishelle Cannatella, Celebrity

"For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time"

Michel Patini

"Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

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