Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Cain

When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.

Sting

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

Steve Henderson

I'd catch a punt naked, in the snow, in Buffalo, for a chance to play in the NFL.

Steve Jobs

So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.

Steve Cotterill

I don't want to give Robbie Blake any praise, but he was superb.

Steve Cotterill

If we'd kept a clean sheet tonight we'd have won 1-0.

Steve Coppell

He's carrying his left leg, which, to be honest, is his only leg.

Steve Coppell

The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost's eyes.

Steve Coppell

I'm not going to make it a target, but it's something to aim for.

Stephen Fry

Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.

Sri Chinmoy

Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like forcing oneself to play football in spite of one's utmost unwillingness. One plays, but gets no joy. Conscious effort is like playing football most willingly. One gets real joy. Similarly, conscious meditation gives us inner Delight from the soul.

Rio Ferdinand

Football is the most important thing in my life, but I do have a life outside football and this is one part. The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand.

Rio Ferdinand

So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?

Rio Ferdinand

No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.

Rio Ferdinand

At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.

Rio Ferdinand

For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.

Rio Ferdinand

If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play

Rio Ferdinand

If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.

Tiki Barber

Marshall was a pioneering player. As a threat in so many different aspects of football, he revolutionized the way in which the running back position was played. He was the player that I wanted to emulate.

Tiki Barber

It's a basic, elemental universe, one of the last remaining zones where violence and domination sort out who is top dog. That's football's glory, and its curse. The game of football doesn't transfer well to the real world. You can't treat your friends, neighbors, or loved ones the way you treat your opponent on the football field.

Stevie Nicks

We did the opening tailgate party - I'm not a big football person - and it started to rain. I was a little sick and went back to the hotel where we were all staying. We didn't know whether Prince was going to go on or not because the rain got so bad. He had already prerecorded it just in case he couldn't go on. So I'm sitting there wrapped in blankets, with a hot water bottle and hot tea, and he goes on and it's the most magical thing I have ever seen.

Reggie Bush

I feel like it's God's plan for me to play football and make a difference in people's lives.

Reggie Bush

I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

Reggie White

I've always believed since I was a kid that God was gonna allow me to play professional football, to use it as a platform to proclaim and live out the name of Jesus. And, you know, that's the most exciting part about my life because God has done things in me to change my character to benefit the kingdom.

Reggie White

People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.

Tom Hooper

I don't even like football.

Tom Hiddleston

As a child, I had a deck of Marvel top trumps. You can get top trumps with racing cars, or fighter planes, or football players... I had all of the Marvel superheroes and super-villains you could get, and I used to play them with my friends. They were all listed according to their height and weight and agility and their super-powers.

Tom Hiddleston

Everybody thinks that you go to Africa and you build a school, or you teach English, or you build a hospital. But actually all you need to do is play football with kids for six months and then after they've trusted you, you tell them about the truth of Aids, and that their grandmother didn't die from witchcraft, she died from Aids. And that's the biggest difference you can make.

Tommy Docherty

There's a hell of a lot of politics in football.

Tommy Docherty

Somebody compared him to Billy McNeil, but I don't remember Billy being crap.

Tommy Bowden

I've seen him be successful throwing the football his sophomore year, I've seen that. I've seen him react through adversity, I have seen that. I'd never seen him react to a new system because we didn't have one. I'd say that'd be the most impressive thing.

Tom Udall

Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.