Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Rooney

I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning.

Wayne Rooney

I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

Trevor Brooking

I come from a generation where I couldn't even contemplate such a thing. I find it amazing. You can become a multi-millionaire as a club player without playing international football. But international football is about individual pride and wanting to perform at the highest level. If I got picked at 41, I would have played, even if I thought I would make a fool of myself. I just wanted to play for my country.

Ryan Giggs

I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

Xabi Alonso

I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most. Maybe he's not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the 'ideal.' Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount.

Xavi

I'd love to play at Wembley. It's special for Barca - and for everyone in football.

Zinedine Zidane

Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show.

Zinedine Zidane

Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.

Jeff Mullins

Playing football gave me the option of having school paid for while doing something I love,

Playing a football game is not our highest priority at this time.

I realize that so many people remember Reggie for the great football player that he was.

Sepp Blatter

individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.

Miguel Jimenez

I played very solid all round. This morning, I had a four foot putt for birdie, but I missed that one. Overall, I'm satisfied with the way I played and (it's) obviously good to be leading at this stage.

I knew I wasn't going to be able to throw a football.

Jose Mourinho

I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the reality of modern football. Big teams only want big players, big players are in big clubs, big clubs want to keep their big players.

Lamar Alexander

The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the farm well ... But the windmills we are talking about today are not your grandmother's windmills. Each one is typically 100 yards tall, two stories taller than the Stature of Liberty, taller than a football field is long.

Jon Gruden

He should voicemail get open!

Steve McClaren

That, for us, was as good as signing on the dotted line. There was a taxation issue, not a football issue, that needed sorting out.

They were a great football team. We had to pull out all the stops in that game.

It wasn't all Chad. It wasn't all anybody. It was all of us. It's not jarring and it's not shocking. It's disappointing. We shot ourselves in the foot so many times. We're a better team than we showed.

Joe Montana

Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.

John Gregory

Doncaster will hit Villa with fire and broomstick.

Kenny Cunningham

I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

Kenny Chesney

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

Mojo Nixon

I love you more than the pool hall, but not as much as football.

Nick Hornby

As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive.

Marv Levy

Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.

Paul Gascoigne

I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years.

Kevin McKidd

In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.

Ben Roethlisberger

I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships.

Bear Bryant

People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.

Bear Bryant

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

Bear Bryant

If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"