Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenny Dalglish

The most important people at Liverpool Football Club are the people who want to be here.

Kenny Dalglish

I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston.

Any time the game means something, it makes it that much more exciting. We missed two opportunities playing two top-10 teams (in LSU and Georgia) on national TV. We just need to get back on track and win a football game right now.

Smith is a great player, but it's not just him. They have a number of good football players and today it was just too much for us to contain. They come at you in all different ways. They are a very good football team.

Mike Holmgren

At the end of the year, if you have a guy who scores 20 touchdowns, gains 1,500 yards, goes to the Pro Bowl, does all those things, you're probably happy you have him, ... And Shaun, I'm glad we have him. If you can have a guy not get hurt and play for you all season long, that will be a positive for your football team.

That's a major disappointment when we have a tailback rush for 250 yards and lose the football game.

Chris Scelfo

That's all we have right now, is football. We lost everything else.

The kids needed something else to do. After going to the funerals and to the hospital all week, I think they were looking forward to football practice. It gave them a little relief.

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.'

Pope John Paul II

Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.

Phillip Daniels

Have we become a cupcake league? We already have better helmets and gear. Wonder how the old school players feel about this. Not in the back of minds when talking about 18 game season so let's play football please... Even guys using shoulders to hit are getting flagged for helmet-to-helmet. Defense is getting sloppy because guys are avoiding fines and will get worse if suspending comes into play.

Philip Rivers

I consider myself a leader of this football team, along with a lot of other guys.

Peter Welch

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.

Peter Mullan

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

Pete Carroll

The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.

Pete Carroll

I had no plan for that year but it wound up being one of the most important years of my football coaching career. It hit me along the way that I needed to really get at the heart of what's really true to myself. And then I was able to mold it and shape it in the years at SC to become the approach and the concept and the culture that we try to create here at Seattle.

Pete Carroll

Of course we want to win every game, but winning forever is more about realizing your potential and making yourself as good as you can be. Realizing that is a tremendous accomplishment, whether it's in football or in life.

Phil Thompson

Reading just had a great five-man move that involved everyone.

Phil Thompson

Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland

Peter Shilton

I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

Questlove

The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

Quentin Tarantino

One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.

Prince William

The Refrigerator" Perry: "I've been big ever since I was little.

Pliny the Elder

Sure, football is a silly game. But have you seen what else is on television?

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

Mick McCarthy

I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.

Mick McCarthy

No regrets, none at all. My only regret is that we went out on penalties. That's my only regret but no, no regrets.

Mike Holmgren

The great ones don't come cheap.