Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Rice

I could barely speak after I was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers. I was going to play for the defending Super Bowl champions.... I immediately thought of all the great players on the team. I was in awe, as I had watched these soon-to-be legends play on television. They epitomized for me what football was all about: the love of the game, the professional approach, and the desire to win.

George Orwell

So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

Gene Simmons

Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team.

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

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.

George Will

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

Gary Neville

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

Eric Bristow

All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.

Jack Kemp

You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

Larry knows how to find the football. He might not make a lot of big plays, but that's not what he's called upon to do. He just doesn't make mistakes. He's always where he needs to be. He's a true linebacker.

Dirk Koetter

Spring football is a two-way street. You don't want guys that are going to be out long term and have to have surgery, but yet, you've got to protect some guys, too.

Bertrand Russell

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

I wasn't surprised, we got a good football team. Our kids made up their mind what they wanted to do.

Michael Beasley

We had a lot of football players on the team then. Once we got out of football mode we started making strides.

Ed Nelson

I think if I can just get a year of football under my belt, I can be a pretty good player.

Bum Phillips

The harder we played, the behinder we got.

Ian Rankin

I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

George Hamilton

He's pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off

George Hamilton

What that situation really needed was a little eyebrows.

Greg Schiano

There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.

Greg Mortenson

Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country of thirty-minute power lunches and two-minute football drills. Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

Graham Roberts

I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football.

Graham Taylor

Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

Graham Taylor

Footballers are no different from human beings.

Graham Taylor

In football, time and space are the same thing.

Graham Taylor

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

Jim Brown

I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me.

Jim Brown

When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

He really showed all of us who were there playing football for fun why it was so important to work hard. No one worked harder than him at his success. Seeing his success made all of us who played with him play harder.

Ian Holloway

I am more than happy at Blackpool and I am afraid the chairman will need a hell of a tub of cream to get rid of me - I'm like a bad rash and not easily curable.

Ian Holloway

The dietician is going to get rid of that when he comes in. Although, first, we've got to get a dietician.

Ian Holloway

To put it in gentleman's terms, if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, you've done what you set out to do. We didn't look our best today but we pulled. Some weeks the lady is good looking and some weeks she's not. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best looking lady we ended up taking home but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let's have coffee.

If it happens two or three years in a row, obviously there's a problem, ... It's hard to think about that scenario playing out. There's a lot of football left to play, but if it does, they have to look at the system.