Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Sabol

If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

Steve Sabol

To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

Steve Sabol

I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.

Steve Sabol

But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.

Steve Sabol

Life is good. Football is better.

Steve Sabol

Life is great, football is better.

Steve Largent

I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they got through playing. Today's player doesn't.

Stella McCartney

More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids.

Spike Dykes

Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.

Spike Dykes

They whipped us like a tied up goat.

Shelley Long

He[Ted Danson] was clearly not a football player, and not only physically. He didn't bring that attitude, that mentality. At the time, there was a [Red Sox] relief pitcher named Bill Lee, the "Spaceman." He was kind of nuts, as we found out a lot of relievers are.

Sergio Ramos

RIP Sir Alfredo Di Stefano. I will never forget each of the shared moments with such a football legend.

Sergio Ramos

If you dont live, eat, breathe, football, then youre not a true football player. You just wear the jersey.

Sergio Aguero

I find it embarrassing when people compare me to Maradona. How can they? There is only one Maradona. People who say this just have no idea, they don't know what they are talking about. Diego was a complete one-off who will never have an equal on the football pitch. No-one, I repeat no-one, could have transformed teams like he did. Maradona was the world's greatest-ever player while I'm just an apprentice.

Summer Altice

I would play football, because I love it.

Stuart Pearce

In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.

Stuart Pearce

His return gives England another key to its bow.

Stuart Pearce

I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.

Stuart Pearce

Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.

Stuart Pearce

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

Stevie Nicks

I was so mad I wasn't sitting at the stadium watching it in person. So when Prince came back to the box where I would have been after he performed, he said to my makeup artist, "Where's Stevie?" She said, "She's sick, and she was told by our manager that she would have to walk across the football field when the game was over in the mud and try to find a limo, so she made the decision that she couldn't do that." He was not happy that I wasn't there, and now today I'm not happy about it because I should have gone and I should have walked in that mud for him.

Robbie Savage

I'm upset. There was nothing like putting on the red shirt. (on retiring from international football)

Robbie Savage

There are kids out there who'd chop their legs off to play football for Brighton

Robbie Fowler

As a young kid, I wasn't really interested at that stage - getting financial advice was far from my mind. I was focused on playing football. But I got onboard with this financial adviser and I heeded his advice, and that was my smartest money decision.

Robbie Fowler

I hate talking about football. I just do it, you know?

Ricky Williams

Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.

Ricky Williams

Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.

Ricky Williams

I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it’s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I’m going to enjoy and it’s time for me to do something different.

Ricky Williams

Nine in the box... that's a football term.

Ricky Williams

I really do love football.

Ricky Williams

The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.

Ricky Williams

Football is my job, not my life, but it's a job I'm going to give my all for as long as I'm in it.

Ricky Williams

I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.