Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohamed Al-Fayed

If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.

Mo Rocca

My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.

Mike Bass

When I get the ball, for some reason I see holes. I'm not really sure how.

Kristoffer Polaha

I liken actors and movies and TV shows to football teams. We all have our favorite ones.

Kenny Cunningham

A difficult decision for the referee's assistant. I wouldn't beat him up over it.

Kenny Cunningham

I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

Kenny Cunningham

Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.

Kenny Cunningham

I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.

Kenny Chesney

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.

Kenny Chesney

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

Kamerion Wimbley

The NFL has done a great job in giving players information on how to go to a second career after football and how to invest their money while they're playing to ensure when their career is over, that they have something else in place to fall back on. One of the big things the NFL does is promote education in different fields.

Kamerion Wimbley

I spend a lot of my downtime studying different businesses and learning from a lot of entrepreneurs when I'm not playing football. They can help me evaluate different ventures to see if they'll work. I was aggressive with my initial investments, trying to hit a homerun each time. But now, I'm stepping back and being more patient, giving them due diligence.

Josh Duhamel

I love football and beer and have a normal girlfriend.

Josh Brolin

Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive.

Pat Summerall

I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

P. J. O'Rourke

The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon. Being a Republican, I'm backing Hillary Clinton. Because she could lose. The reason is not that she's a woman. The reason is that she's the particular woman who taught the 4th grade class that every man in America wished he were dead in. Hillary Clinton is Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown. Hillary Clinton is 'America's ex-wife.'

P. G. Wodehouse

Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general principles, of course. I mean to say, I know that the main scheme is to work the ball down the field somehow and deposit it over the line at the other end and that, in order to squalch this programme, each side is allowed to put in a certain amount of assault and battery and do things to its fellow man which, if done elsewhere, would result in 14 days without the option, coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench.

Paul Newman

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

Paul Brown

Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.

Matthew Fox

I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.

Mark Harmon

If other people think I’m okay looking, that’s great, but I don’t see it myself. When I look in the mirror all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars.

Marisa Miller

I'd say I was a tomboy... I took wood chop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and [was] very unaware of anything girly for a long time.

Marisa Miller

I've grown up watching football my whole life.

Paul Scholes

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say that playing football is all I have ever wanted to do and to have had such a long and successful career at Manchester United has been a real honour. This was not a decision that I have taken lightly but I feel now is the right time for me to stop playing. To have been part of the team that helped the Club reach that 19th title is a great privilege.

Paul Scholes

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.

Paul Scholes

At every opportunity, I wanted to play football.

Jurgen Klinsmann

To any young kid who wants to be a footballer, I would simply say: Have fun playing football and enjoy the team - spirit. That's the right attitude; that will bring you pleasure and fulfillment in football. A baker cannot live on bread he made yesterday, and a footballer cannot live on his last game. It's about the here and now.

Knute Rockne

Let's win one for the Gipper.

Knute Rockne

No star playing, just football.

Knute Rockne

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

Knute Rockne

It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.

Knute Rockne

The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game.

Knute Rockne

The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work.