Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurie Halse Anderson

My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. I think the Merryweather cheerleaders confuse me because I missed out on Sunday School. It has to be a miracle. There is no other explanation. How else could they sleep with the football team on Saturday night and be reincarnated as virginal goddesses on Monday?

Thierry Henry

A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.

Thierry Henry

I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.

Thierry Henry

Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

Thierry Henry

Arsenal will always have a place in my heart and that is the same for so many other people too. There's a strong sense of 'family' at the Club and it is why those people that leave so often find their way back, to be around that feeling and I believe that even when you go a bit of you never leaves Arsenal anyway, that is how it has been for me. I'm just so glad that I've been able to be part of the story of the football club.

Thierry Henry

I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.

Thierry Henry

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

Thierry Henry

There's nothing I'm scared of in football.

Thierry Henry

I eat football, I sleep football. I am not mad I am just passionate

Terry Venables

They didn't change positions, they just moved the players around.

Terry Venables

If you want change, you've got to stick with it.

Terry Venables

I felt a lump in my throat as the ball went in.

Terry Venables

If you can't stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen

Terry Venables

Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored.

Lawrence Jackson

I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.

Lewis Hamilton

I always want to be the best at what I do. As a kid, whatever I was doing, if I was playing football or whatever I was applying my energy to at the time, I always wanted to do it to the best of my abilities. And I was always interested in finding out how I could do it better.

Lewis H. Lapham

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

Julio Iglesias

I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

Julie Harris

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

Joyce Brothers

Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.

Julianne Moore

We [with husband] try and spend time alone, which is really hard to do. Of course, when you have kids they're like: "Why are you going out? You went out last night... you can't go out tonight!" so, you try to do that, and you try and ask somebody to please turn off the football game because you can't stand it any longer and you'd rather talk to them.You try to make time for each other where you can. You try to plan a trip away somewhere.

Pamela Anderson

My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' called and offered me a cover just like that. I turned them down initially, because I was nervous about it and my boyfriend at the time didn't want me to do it, but they kept coming back , so I eventually said yes.

Otto Rehhagel

A football team is really a big family. There's a give and take... but a few are working for their name only. They go the whole week trying to figure out who said something, what they said and where it happened instead of showing that they're big men.

Junior Seau

I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.

Junior Seau

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

Junior Seau

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

Patrick Vieira

Thierry is the best striker in the world. By far he's the best in the world. Thierry doesn't just score goals. Even when he's not having a good day he can make an important pass. He is a strong character. If things go wrong, he bounces straight back. His effect on the club is very big.

P. C. Cast

A big, studly football jock like me? I got plenty of blood to spare. For you, I have anything to spare.

Paul Tagliabue

I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.

Kate Mara

I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.

George Lucas

Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

Emily Ratajkowski

You can go super American and get barbecue and beer and be like, 'Whatever, I'm watching a football game.' That's exactly what I'm going to do.

Jimmy Fallon

Thank you... preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.