Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vince Lombardi

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

Vince Lombardi

Gentleman, this is a football.

Vince Lombardi

To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

Vince Lombardi

In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.

Vince Lombardi

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

Vince Lombardi

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization...

Vince Lombardi

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Vince Lombardi

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

Vince Lombardi

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

Vince Lombardi

I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.

Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Vijender Singh

I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.

Sam Allardyce

Hopefully Andy Carroll has only tweeted his hamstring.

Sam Allardyce

I couldn't give a s***! He just can't take it. Good old Jose, moaning again.

Sam Allardyce

I hate perception. There's far too much of it in football

Sam Allardyce

You know the FA's the richest football association in the world? Well, I shouldn't say that. They're not the richest at all. What they do is they have the biggest turnover in the world with £325m.

Sam Allardyce

Today was about our lack of ability to not produce the ability we've got.

Sam Claflin

I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.

Sachin Tendulkar

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Losing is not in my vocabulary.

Ryan Giggs

I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

Ryan Giggs

We will go back to playing like Manchester United.

Ryan Giggs

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

Ryan Giggs

Nelson Mandela is my hero outside of football. I was fortunate enough to meet him a couple of times. He was really clued up on his football and he knew me, so that was just unbelievable. It really stuck with me.

Ryan Giggs

I just want to be as successful as I can in football.

Ryan Giggs

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

Ryan Giggs

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

Ryan Giggs

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

Ryan Adams

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.

Walter Payton

A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.

Walter Payton

There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

Xabi Alonso

I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most. Maybe he's not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the 'ideal.' Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount.

Xavi

England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!