Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's an outstanding football player, and people are going to come from miles around to see him next year.

Pete Carroll

He's an extraordinary football player. He's so fast. He's big. He probably made us miss 11 tackles.

Franz Beckenbauer

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.

Franz Beckenbauer

You have to sometimes shoot from the second row, that's all football. So you have to be a bit more flexible.

Franz Beckenbauer

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.

Franz Beckenbauer

Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young or old, players or fans, rich or poor, the game makes everyone equal, stirs the imagination, makes people happy and makes them sad

Jevon Kearse

I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.

Jermain Defoe

I feel 21. I've looked after myself and take my football seriously.

Jermain Defoe

There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.

Jermain Defoe

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.

Jermain Defoe

When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

Jermain Defoe

For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.

Jermain Defoe

I don't feel like I'm getting older. I think it's the way I've looked after myself. I take my football seriously. I love scoring goals and I get a good feeling from it, so I'll do whatever it takes to be fit and feel good in games.

Jermain Defoe

The best thing about football is that the rules are so simple. Anyone can play anywhere.

Jello Biafra

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

Jeb Bush

I think (fantasy football) has become something that needs to be looked at in terms of regulation. Effectively, it's day trading without any regulation at all. When you have insider information, which has apparently been the case, when you have people who use that information, use big data to try and take advantage of it, there has to be some regulation. If they can't regulate themselves, then the NFL needs to look at moving away from them a little bit, and there should be some regulation.

Jerry O'Connell

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

Jerry Jones

I take a good feeling away from what football brings.

Jerry Jones

It's the premium time, the fourth quarter. October, November, December and now, if you will, going over into the first quarter in January. But really, football, that's when the interest is in the game.

Jerry Jones

The part of football you don't see with all the buddies I ever had, we might have gone out and thrown some passes, but we never went out to knock the hell out of each other just to do it. You do that when the time comes to push the ball downfield or keep it from going down the field. That's why I think football has a great place.

George Will

Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.

George Will

Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.

George Will

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George Saunders

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

Mark Brunell

Good player. He just had a big day. You've got to give him a lot of credit. Very good athlete, very good football player.

George Best

Football is a sad game.

George Best

I want to be remembered for my football and the pleasure I gave people.

George Best

He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.

Gary Lineker

If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

Gary Lineker

I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

Gary Lineker

I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it's been a large part of my life, it's not the only thing in my life.

Gary Lineker

Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business life. During my football career I realised quickly what difference language skills can make

Gary Lineker

Chris Hughton has been sacked by Norwich. Now? With 5 games to go? Utterly bonkers!