Football Quotes

"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

"I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach"

Jamal Lewis, Athlete

"There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it"

Dean Cain, Actor

"It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that"

Diane Kruger, Model

"To be able to influence someone or to be able to have a group of guys come together to have a successful team and to be together all the time every day for, you know, a year and longer together, you have to have a - find a common ground. And that common ground for us is football"

Tim Tebow, Athlete

"Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts"

Jay Mohr, Actor

"It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players"

Red Smith, Journalist

"We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world"

Rachel Griffiths, Actress

"So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing"

Jay Mohr, Actor

"I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor"

Herschel Walker, Athlete

"My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood"

Haley Barbour, Politician

"My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed"

John Krasinski, Actor

"My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent"

Ed Helms, Comedian

"Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it"

Jeanne Moreau, Actress

"The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score"

Nick Hornby, Writer

"Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator"

Nick Hornby, Writer

"One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre"

David Soul, Actor

"In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game"

Hayden Fry, Coach

"I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work"

Drew Brees, Athlete

"When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something"

Dick Butkus, Athlete

"Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

"My father was an all-American football player"

Edwin Moses, Athlete

"To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

"I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

"All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts"

Eric Bristow, Celebrity

"I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state"

Drew Brees, Athlete

"You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards"

Craig Johnston, Athlete

"OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make"

Craig Johnston, Athlete

"There are hundreds of Beckhams playing football all over the world"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

"And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me"

Craig Johnston, Athlete

"Many people agree with me that many things are not clear in football these days and it is not something people who watch football deserve. The situation will be the same while football is run by people who do not understand football"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

"When it's football season, I'm all football"

Hayden Fry, Coach

"The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries"

Art Modell, Businessman

"When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football"

Mike Krzyzewski, Coach

"Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures"

Alessandro Del Piero, Athlete

"I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say"

Andy Partridge, Musician

"I always told my dad I'd play professional football"

Anthony Doerr, Writer

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