Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marv Levy

When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us.

Ndamukong Suh

I guess I'm a fun-loving teddy bear. I've got two sides to me. Obviously, there's the football side that a lot of people see - the mean, ferocious, coming-after-the-quarterback guy. But off the field, I'm a calm, cool, collected guy.

Ndamukong Suh

The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

Ndamukong Suh

I think any football is a guy that is able to one, be able to be humble and hungry off the field, but at the same time on the football field understand what they have to get done and be a little bit ferocious.

Martin Jol

Robbie Keane's not the second choice, he's my first choice. But Jermain Defoe is as well.

Mark Viduka

All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.

R. C. Sproul

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

Lisi Harrison

Do you play football for Pittsburgh? Then why are you such a Steeler?!

Oscar Wilde

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

Paul Rieckhoff

I get excited when fantasy football season's coming. This guy gets excited when war season's coming.

Paul Gascoigne

Because of the booking I will miss the Holland game - if selected.

Paul Gascoigne

I never make predictions and I never will.

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.

Patrick Murray

I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don’t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money.

Paul Merson

Goals dictate how matches go.

Paul Merson

Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.

Paul Merson

I think Southampton will finish above teams that are well below them.

Paul Merson

Football's all about yesterday, it's all about now

Paul Merson

Everton are literally a bag of Revells.

Paul Jewell

It was easily the happiest day of my football life and yet people still want to ask me about the suit. When they talk about the day, it's not 'didn't you do well?', it's 'what was that you were wearing?!

Paul Ince

Back in my time, and I sound old now, it was black and white boots and that was it. Now you've got snoods, people wearing headphones when they're doing interviews, which I find disrespectful. Pink boots, green boots, you name it, even tights. They'll be wearing skirts next.

Paul Ince

I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.

Kinky Friedman

I'm not pro-life, and I'm not pro-choice. I'm pro-football.

Oliver Kahn

I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.

Oliver Kahn

It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting better at it is supposed to be fun. Perhaps it would have been better if I had understood this as a young man.

Oliver Reed

Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.

Margaret Atwood

I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.

Marcus Thomas

Whoa! I better lay off the peyote!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Marcel Desailly

Football gives the African people hope, a true motivation for their life.

Manuel Pellegrini

I think the way we played was as important as winning the title, the way we did it with the players and the fans enjoying it.

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.

Kenny Dalglish

It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.