Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hidetoshi Nakata

I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

John Krasinski

My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.

Guus Hiddink

I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.

Guus Hiddink

Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is inferior. It's not.

Grant Teaff

The coaching profession has lost one of its true legends. Though he was best known for winning more football games than any other coach when he retired, Eddie Robinson's impact on coaching and the game of football went far beyond wins and losses. He brought a small school in northern Louisiana from obscurity to nationwide, if not worldwide, acclaim and touched the lives of hundreds and hundreds of young men in his 57 years at Grambling. That will be his greatest legacy.

Gordon Taylor

Football has to work really hard to put a smile on peoples face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if youre always going to sell out to the highest bidder.

Gordon Taylor

People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'.

Gordon Strachan

The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.

Gordon Strachan

Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.

Gordon Strachan

Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.

Gordon Strachan

The reality, ... is that I need to win games of football. That's where the pressure and the sleepless nights come from. There's a fantasy pressure with this job but none of that matters. I need to make this team into a good unit, need to take it forward, give it a change of pace, need to get it younger and to use the experience of the lads we've got here. I need Lennon and Sutton and people like that to go and show how you handle being a Celtic player.

Gordon Strachan

I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.

Gordon Strachan

He could have done one of three things. He didn't do either.

Gordon Strachan

It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.

Gordon Strachan

I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.

Gordon Strachan

I want players who are always striving to improve.

Gordon Ramsay

The essence of Reality TV is all about drama. So, I think bringing pressure is healthy whether it's a professional chef or a domestic chef. Because the only way ever to really identify the true purpose of how good they are is submerging them under pressure. So I say it's no different than a live football game because it's about the intensity.

Gordon Ramsay

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It's not a job, it's a passion. When you become good at it, it's a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.

John Madden

Discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it. Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can.

John Madden

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

John Madden

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

John Madden

Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.

John Madden

Boom, boom, foom, poom! He just ran right at 'em!

John Madden

The best feeling is watching a real football game, because the games they show in the movies aren't real.

John Madden

He got up looking out of his earhole!

John Madden

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

John Madden

Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football.

John Madden

Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else.

John Madden

I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record - everything stinks - and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.

John Malkovich

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

John Malkovich

The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.

John Legend

I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.