Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Orwell

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

George R. R. Martin

I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.

George Carlin

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

Gene Simmons

Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team.

Garry Wills

Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.

Frank Thomas

I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball, I continued my football workouts in the offseason.

Frank Gifford

Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.

Felix Magath

I was convinced before the game that we had a very good chance but today was what you would call in Germany a blackout.

Fernando Torres

My head is in Liverpool and on helping save our season. I am professional and I always fulfil my deals. I haven't considered leaving, although in football that depends on the club.

Fernando Torres

The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.

Fernando Torres

You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.

Fernando Torres

My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city, he had no choice.

Fernando Torres

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

Henny Youngman

In high school football, the coach kept me on the bench all year. On the last game of the season, the crowd was yelling, We want Youngman! We want Youngman! The coach says, Youngman - go see what they want!

Gary Oldman

Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

Gabriel Batistuta

When I was playing football I never enjoyed it that much, I was never happy... if I scored two goals, I wanted a third, I always wanted more. Now it's all over I can look back with satisfaction, but I never felt that way when I was playing.

Gabriel Byrne

I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

Gabriel Iglesias

I know enough football to know that's funny!

Christine Lavin

Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

J. C. Watts

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

He's willing to do anything to help the university and the football team look good, and it's all honest and genuine with him.

He's a real good football coach; they won there and at Seminole and turned the program around.

Jack Rio

He said he'd be back for our football team, and he showed up. That's a tough man.

He's a hard-nosed football player. We just liked everything about him.

He's an outstanding football player, and people are going to come from miles around to see him next year.

Pete Carroll

He's an extraordinary football player. He's so fast. He's big. He probably made us miss 11 tackles.

Franz Beckenbauer

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.

Franz Beckenbauer

You have to sometimes shoot from the second row, that's all football. So you have to be a bit more flexible.

Franz Beckenbauer

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.

Franz Beckenbauer

Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young or old, players or fans, rich or poor, the game makes everyone equal, stirs the imagination, makes people happy and makes them sad

Jevon Kearse

I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.

Jermain Defoe

I feel 21. I've looked after myself and take my football seriously.

Jermain Defoe

There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.