Famous Quotes & Sayings

Summer Altice

I would play football, because I love it.

Stuart Pearce

In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.

Stuart Pearce

His return gives England another key to its bow.

Stuart Pearce

I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.

Stuart Pearce

Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.

Stuart Pearce

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

Stevie Nicks

I was so mad I wasn't sitting at the stadium watching it in person. So when Prince came back to the box where I would have been after he performed, he said to my makeup artist, "Where's Stevie?" She said, "She's sick, and she was told by our manager that she would have to walk across the football field when the game was over in the mud and try to find a limo, so she made the decision that she couldn't do that." He was not happy that I wasn't there, and now today I'm not happy about it because I should have gone and I should have walked in that mud for him.

Robbie Savage

I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt. (on retiring from international football)

Robbie Savage

There are kids out there who'd chop their legs off to play football for Brighton

Robbie Fowler

As a young kid, I wasn't really interested at that stage - getting financial advice was far from my mind. I was focused on playing football. But I got onboard with this financial adviser and I heeded his advice, and that was my smartest money decision.

Robbie Fowler

I hate talking about football. I just do it, you know?

Ricky Williams

Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.

Ricky Williams

Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.

Ricky Williams

I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it’s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I’m going to enjoy and it’s time for me to do something different.

Ricky Williams

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

Ricky Williams

I really do love football.

Ricky Williams

The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.

Ricky Williams

Football is my job, not my life, but it's a job I'm going to give my all for as long as I'm in it.

Ricky Williams

I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.

Sepp Blatter

I can understand that people are not happy, but they should not use football to make their demands heard

Sepp Blatter

The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.

Michael Waltrip

Great news for Pres Obama. He watched football all weekend and tomorrow he will receive the Heisman trophy. Next week he's going to watch NASCAR. Move over, Jimmie Johnson!

Snoop Dogg

I learned how to take other people's mechanisms of promoting their stuff through me as opposed to promoting my own stuff, as far as getting Snoop DeVilles, SnoopDeGrills, Snoop Doggy Dogg biscuits, Snoop Dogg record label, Snoop Dogg bubble gum, Snoop Youth Football League.

Terrell Owens

I had my family before I played football.

Paula Deen

I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out,

Peyton Manning

When you take a year off from football, you come back for all the enjoyable moments. When you're not playing, you miss out on all the highs, but you also miss these disappointments. But I would rather be in the arena to be excited or be disappointed than not have a chance at all. That's football. That's why everybody plays it.

Morris Chestnut

My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen.

Michel Patini

Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.

Mack Brown

Most players don't mind drug testing once they realize they don't have to study for it.

Luckily, I hurt my foot so I had time to go over the proofs.

Let's remind people it's a school area. Slow down. That way, it's on their mind when they put their foot on the gas, to slow down.

David Wright

Last year we started off pretty horrible and this year we're off to a good start. If this was a football season we'd be sitting pretty right now, but in baseball, we have a long way to go.

Julianne Moore

She wasn't a saint, just incredibly optimistic and positive, ... She was able to put one foot in front of the other. She had a lot to do.