Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Merson

Football's all about yesterday, it's all about now

Paul Merson

Everton are literally a bag of Revells.

Paul Jewell

It was easily the happiest day of my football life and yet people still want to ask me about the suit. When they talk about the day, it's not 'didn't you do well?', it's 'what was that you were wearing?!

Paul Ince

Back in my time, and I sound old now, it was black and white boots and that was it. Now you've got snoods, people wearing headphones when they're doing interviews, which I find disrespectful. Pink boots, green boots, you name it, even tights. They'll be wearing skirts next.

Paul Ince

I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.

Kinky Friedman

I'm not pro-life, and I'm not pro-choice. I'm pro-football.

Oliver Kahn

I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.

Oliver Kahn

It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting better at it is supposed to be fun. Perhaps it would have been better if I had understood this as a young man.

Oliver Reed

Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.

Margaret Atwood

I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.

Marcus Thomas

Whoa! I better lay off the peyote!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Marcel Desailly

Football gives the African people hope, a true motivation for their life.

Manuel Pellegrini

I think the way we played was as important as winning the title, the way we did it with the players and the fans enjoying it.

Kevin McKidd

In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.

Kenny Dalglish

It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

Kenny Dalglish

The most important people at Liverpool Football Club are the people who want to be here.

Kenny Dalglish

I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston.

Any time the game means something, it makes it that much more exciting. We missed two opportunities playing two top-10 teams (in LSU and Georgia) on national TV. We just need to get back on track and win a football game right now.

Smith is a great player, but it's not just him. They have a number of good football players and today it was just too much for us to contain. They come at you in all different ways. They are a very good football team.

Mike Holmgren

At the end of the year, if you have a guy who scores 20 touchdowns, gains 1,500 yards, goes to the Pro Bowl, does all those things, you're probably happy you have him, ... And Shaun, I'm glad we have him. If you can have a guy not get hurt and play for you all season long, that will be a positive for your football team.

That's a major disappointment when we have a tailback rush for 250 yards and lose the football game.

Chris Scelfo

That's all we have right now, is football. We lost everything else.

The kids needed something else to do. After going to the funerals and to the hospital all week, I think they were looking forward to football practice. It gave them a little relief.

Ben Roethlisberger

I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships.

Bear Bryant

People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.

Bear Bryant

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

Bear Bryant

If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"

Bernie Siegel

I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, 'It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.'

Martina Navratilova

People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.

Martin Compston

I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.

Pope John Paul II

Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.

Phillip Daniels

Have we become a cupcake league? We already have better helmets and gear. Wonder how the old school players feel about this. Not in the back of minds when talking about 18 game season so let's play football please... Even guys using shoulders to hit are getting flagged for helmet-to-helmet. Defense is getting sloppy because guys are avoiding fines and will get worse if suspending comes into play.