Football Quotes

"If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights"

Roger Milla, Athlete

"Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back"

Lee Majors, Actor

"You made it something special. Most of all, I want to thank the fans for your support not through the great times that we shared on the football field, but for the last 17 years of my life. You have supported me through all times"

Michael Irvin, Athlete

"I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid"

Michael East, Athlete

"It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week"

Martin Gore, Musician

"What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston"

Kenny Dalglish, Athlete

"Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple"

Bill Shankly, Athlete

"For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside"

Claudia Schiffer, Model

"The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball"

John Thorn, Historian

"But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in"

Parminder Nagra, Actress

"People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it"

Wayne Wonder, Musician

"There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else"

Pete Hamill, Journalist

"Yes, in general, I think there is too much club football on TV"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability"

LeBron James, Athlete

"I'm taking T.O., every day... He gives me the whole football field"

Michael Irvin, Athlete

"The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football"

David Gill, Scientist

"People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life"

Pete Rozelle, Celebrity

"In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time"

Michel Patini

"No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time"

Parminder Nagra, Actress

"In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!"

Parminder Nagra, Actress

"Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that"

Parminder Nagra, Actress

"And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled"

Parminder Nagra, Actress

"How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool"

Simon Raven, Novelist

"I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad"

Lisa Guerrero, Journalist

"For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that"

Bill Shankly, Athlete

"I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself"

Pete Rozelle, Celebrity

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

Bill Shankly, Athlete

"A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are"

Bill Shankly, Athlete

"Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important"

Bill Shankly, Athlete

"I know I can catch the football. That's the least of my worries"

Kevin Johnson, Athlete

"The fans know their football, you can't kid them"

Richard Gough

"You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

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