Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Motson

The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour.

John Carlin

Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.

John Cale

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

Johan Cruijff

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

Johan Cruijff

Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner.

Johan Cruijff

Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game.

Johan Cruijff

For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.

Johan Cruijff

Football is simple, you're either on time, or you're too late. If you're too late then you have to leave earlier.

Johan Cruijff

It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.

Johan Cruijff

The fun part of golf is the variety of shots. In football you can do anything with a ball, but you can do anything with a golf ball as well. When you hit a shot and the ball does exactly what you want it to do ... that's wonderful. It's just great when you hit the ball well. You should always try not to make the ball cry.

Johan Cruijff

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

Johan Cruijff

Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

Johan Cruijff

Football is a game you play with your brain

Joel McHale

I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.

Joe Jordan

All the cul-de-sacs are closed for Scotland.

Joe Hart

When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it.

Joe Hart

We'll not give up even if we're 12 points behind with one game left.

Joe Greene

I believe in being positive.

Joe Greene

It brought Pittsburgh into the picture of football teams in the National Football League that, ‘OK, you have to deal with us now.’

Joe Greene

When you win and you don't have anyone to share it with, why win? You have someone to share it with you.

Joe Greene

I never had a desire to hurt anybody.

Joe Greene

For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

Joe Greene

I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

Joe Greene

They say that when you're the champs, everybody will try to beat you. Well, I'm glad we're champs, so bring'em on, bring'em all on. If we die, we ain't gonna die running. It's gonna be a fight.

Joe Greene

When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line.

George Allen

Football is one-third offense, one-third defense, and one-third special teams.

George Allen

Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.

Geoff Thompson

Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park.

Geoff Mulgan

Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.

George Clooney

I don't sleep much. Five to six, I'd say. You could argue that people, as they get older, sleep less - probably because they're afraid of dying at some point. I know my parents don't sleep much. I know that I used to be able to sleep until noon when I was younger. I couldn't fathom staying in bed until ten now. I wouldn't know what to do unless there's a football game on.

Lyndon B. Johnson

He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

Ludivine Sagnier

In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.