Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

It's the first time they've seen this many soldiers on a foot patrol through those mountains.

It's giving competitors an instant foot in the door.

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!"

Bernie Siegel

I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, 'It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.'

Phil Thompson

Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland

Pele

Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.

Pele

Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.

Kevin Keegan

Football's always easier when you've got the ball.

Les Miles

I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day!

Junior Seau

I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.

Justin Timberlake

I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

Jimmie Johnson

A losing football team looks at excuses. A championship football team looks at solutions.

John Motson

Ruud Gullit was able to impose his multi-lingual skills on this match.

Johan Cruijff

Football is simple, you're either on time, or you're too late. If you're too late then you have to leave earlier.

Lou Holtz

To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.

Frank Lampard

I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio.

Football is for the fans. It can be the greatest game in the world but if there are no people to watch it, it becomes nothing. The fans are the lifeblood of the game.

Herschel Walker

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.