Quotes about football
football running stars
They're crying. It was Drogba, it was the angels, it was the heavens, it was the stars, it was the gods, it was everything for Chelsea. This is not anything to do with football. This is more than football, this is spirit. Never giving in, fighting to the end, that English spirit running right the way through this Champions League for Chelsea. Gary Neville
football names villa
We always looked forward to playing Aston Villa to hear him mangle Ugo Ehiogu's name. "Make sure you pick up Ehugu, Ehogy, whatever his name is."
football dog ducks
It could end up like the Dog & Duck against the Red Lion.
football team school
As football gets more globalized, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
football fall climbing
We're at the top of the cliff and we can either fall off the edge or keep climbing.
football strong mistake
I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.
football years playstation
It was like he was being controlled by a 10 year-old on a PlayStation.
football hard-work ability
Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it. Gale Sayers
football laughing-so-hard balls
I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball. Fred Frith
football kissing cuddling
All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts. Eric Bristow
football kings distance
I don't think the world of football is so serious. It's important to have distance about things and about yourself. If we believe we are kings or gods, we become crazy. We all know it's a game and we all enjoy it together. Eric Cantona
football thinking games
I would like to compare football and cinema. I think it's very similar. It's two games... different games. You have to work very hard and find the confidence to enjoy it on the pitch or in the film.
football tough stage
Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.
football england paradise
When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.
football excitement lost
Football lost its excitement for me.
football beach games
I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.
football passion dying
If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
football dream children
When I was a child I had a dream to become a football player. I always played as I played when I was a child. I tried to improve. I never dreamt of becoming a professional football player, I dreamed just to play with the best players in the best team. I never dreamed to be paid to play. I would have paid to play an FA Cup Final in front of 80,000 people in Wembley. I just tried to play the wonderful game that football is. So, I hope young players will still have this dream.
football wanted stills
Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.
football real games
The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.
football done excited
I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.
football insane youth
I feel close to the rebelliousness of the youth here. Perhaps time will seperate us , but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.
football heart thinking
When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart.
football team wife
You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.
football play spain
If you come from Spain, you have to play football. Enrique Iglesias
football play retiring
Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life. Elvin Bishop
football hung knew playing
But I never hung my head. I knew I wasn't playing good, but I knew there was a lot of football left. Trent Dilfer
football line move player position practice prepare situations sure time versatile
Before you take a versatile football player and move him, you want to be sure he understands one position solidly. Then you have to find time in practice to line him up in the right situations and prepare properly.
football winning cities
If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City. Graeme Souness
football hammers scottish
Scottish football is full of hammer throwers.
football attitude england
God has given him an attitude that he can deal with anything football throws at him. (on Michael Owen)
football mark particular
Without picking out anyone in particular. I thought Mark Wright was tremendous.
football happened happens
He's started anticipating what's going to happen before it's even happened. Graeme Le Saux