Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pele

I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'

Pele

Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!

Pele

I love people. I wanted to be with the people. I wanted to give something back what I get from football, because God gave everything to me.

Pele

Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.

Pele

I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal you need to think quick and play quick so its easier for you when you move to normal football.

Pele

Brazil, always they buy from the United States. The first who was sell to the United States was football.

Pele

Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem.

Pele

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

Pete Rozelle

I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.

Pete Rozelle

People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.

Phyllis Diller

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Kevin J. Anderson

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

Kevin Keegan

Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is...

Kevin Keegan

Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger.

Kevin Keegan

Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.

Kevin Keegan

I'm not a person who goes into a deep depression after a defeat. I try to remain reasonably upbeat. I'm realistic enough to know that results of football matches are often unpredictable and, when all is said and done, things don't always work out as one would wish!

Kevin Keegan

Football's always easier when you've got the ball.

Kevin Keegan

English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

Kevin Keegan

A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.

Kevin Keegan

What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football.

Kevin Kelly

This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.

Rachel Stevens

I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

Rahul Dravid

I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

Les Miles

I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it.

Les Miles

I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day!

Les Miles

This is what you should do, let it rest. I'm playing football for LSU. I'm preparing for R-Kansas. I'm preparing for the next game, and the next game after that.

Les Miles

There was a contact between a football player and a cheerleader, male I might add. That male cheerleader clipped me from the side as I was running full speed, or slower than full speed, but generally, in the upper quadrant of speed. And I hit the ground pretty good.

Les Miles

Louisiana has a heritage of great players that play their high school football within the boundaries of Louisiana.

Leo Beenhakker

Football is not played on paper, it is played on a pitch. This game is not mathematics and in football, two plus two very rarely equals four - it's usually three or five.

Lennie James

My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.

Lee Corso

Hawaii doesn't win many games in the United States.