Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xavi

In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.

Xavi

I'm a footballing romantic just like Johan Cruyff. We like football that is attractive, attacking and easy on the eye. When you win playing like this it's twice as satisfying. I've always played attacking football: my footballing ideals are very clear and well defined. I've grown up at Barcelona with that style and that's the one I like. I think it's good to win like that, by taking the initiative right from the off.

Xavi

There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent.

Xavi

Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football—for me, at least.

Wynton Marsalis

I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Arsenal could have happened, as everybody knows, but I would not do a trial. Who do you think regrets that more - Arsene Wenger or Zlatan?

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions

Zoe Kravitz

I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers. They have everything, they have money, and they're just mean-spirited. It's crazy.

Zinedine Zidane

Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.

Zinedine Zidane

It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad.

Zinedine Zidane

Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show.

Zinedine Zidane

Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.

Zinedine Zidane

Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements.

Zinedine Zidane

Messi is the Mozart of football.

Zinedine Zidane

Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends

I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.

Zell Miller

One of these days, someone smarter and younger and more articulate than I is going to get through to the American people just how really messed up the federal government has become. And when that happens, the American people are going to rise up like that football crowd in Cleveland and run both teams off the field.

Zadie Smith

Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of all kinds--but Archie's never felt that way about it. Prudent use of said phrase never failed to convince him that his interlocutor was getting to the bottom of things, to the fundamentals.

Other than Saturday, we haven't had any problems at midget football games,

Osi Umenyiora

Pittsburgh's going to win and I think it's going to be pretty bad. I think Pittsburgh might win by 10 or 14 points. Seattle's a good football team, but I just don't think they'll be able to match up.

Jerome Bettis

Pittsburgh is special to me. Hopefully, I meant a lot to them because of what I've done on the football field.

Jeff Mullins

Playing football gave me the option of having school paid for while doing something I love,

Playing a football game is not our highest priority at this time.

Really, linebacker is linebacker and football is football. It's going out, making plays, hitting people and tackling.

Patton is a real find for us. He went under the radar during football recruiting and it's to our benefit.

Pat said to just keep doing what we're doing. We're still a good football team.

Kian Egan

Our manager is always worried that Nicky will injure himself at football. But I don't really mind because there were only 4 members in The Beatles.

Pete Carroll

If you make that first down, you're squatting on the football to win the game. We just missed it. By what -- two inches?

If you were at that spring football game and you didn't get chills, then something's wrong with you.

Rafael Benitez

In my opinion, we had a good first-half and they had a good second-half. But football is all about scoring goals and we scored two and they only scored one,

LenDale White

I never thought that football could take me this far.

I guess the same thing happens in football.