Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Byrne

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

The people around here are very hard-working. Many of them work at plants. And that is representative of what we have on the football field.

Carl Pohlad

Seldom do we experience the charisma and character of a dynamic personality such as Lou Holtz, the very successful former football coach of Notre Dame. Lou has left his distinctive mark of success everywhere he has coached. Winning Every Day is not just a catchy phrase, but with Coach Holtz, a way of life.

Arsene Wenger

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear. A polar bear.

Arsene Wenger

In England, football is important for everybody.

Arsene Wenger

Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.

Arsene Wenger

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

Arsene Wenger

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

Arsene Wenger

You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.

Arsene Wenger

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

Arsene Wenger

What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.

Arsene Wenger

What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.

Arsene Wenger

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Arsene Wenger

Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

Arsene Wenger

When I arrive at the gates of Heaven the Good Lord will ask ‘what did you do in your life?’ I will respond ‘I tried to win football matches.’ He will say: ‘Are you certain that’s all?’ But, well, that’s the story of my life.

Bertrand Russell

With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious.

Bertrand Russell

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

That was a tough loss. The guys are down about it, but we've got another week to work and North Texas has a good football team.

That was the worst loss physically that we've gone through since the start of varsity football here (in 1993). I haven't been embarrassed here in a long time.

Jack Horner

That worked great. The footage went out all over the world.

Frank Gifford

That was a major thing that he did. They knew it was better for the future of football by sharing the money equally.

We have a lot of young guys, but we feel like we have put together another very good football team. Talent-wise, we're probably as good as we've ever been. We just have to do a good job of making all of the new pieces fit.

We need to just go out and play football and come back with a win,

We know that they're a very experienced football team. They feel like they've got one of the top defenses in the MAC. We know we're going to have to go out and win the game. They're not going to give us anything.

We have two football teams just so everyone can play.

Michael Vick

We just didn't play championship-type football when we needed to. At some points we did, at some points we didn't, whether it's on offense or defense. Playing like that, we wouldn't even win a game in the playoffs. We've just got to re-evaluate a lot of things around here.

We played poorly the last third of the second quarter. In the second half, we got it to 10 points and had an opportunity to get back (or win) the football game.

Sepp Blatter

Because I love football and I love the footballers.

The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.

Phil Anselmo

There has got to be a lot of unreleased video out there, live footage and whatnot. There's always going to be something extra for the Pantera fan.

We had our chances. That's how football goes. We have to make those plays.

We were going to stay at the same hotel in Leeds that the Kangaroos used but we were told by some players that it was not ideal for a football team. So we've moved to another.

We were getting ready to run our two-minute offense but we didn't get a chance,