Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graeme Le Saux

Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency.

Graeme Le Saux

Ramires is involved in everything he does.

Graeme Le Saux

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

Graeme Le Saux

From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with the same energy and enthusiasm I gave to football without expecting the same results.

Glenn Hoddle

I think in international football you have to be able to handle the ball.

Glenn Hoddle

If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they'll have to wait until I'm out of a job.

Glenn Hoddle

International football is one clog further up the football ladder

Glenn Hoddle

There was nothing wrong with the performance, apart from throwing away the game.

Glenn Hoddle

I didn't say them things that I said.

Glenn Hoddle

My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn't fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn't there and focus on the job.

Glenn Hoddle

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

Gregg Easterbrook

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

Gregg Easterbrook

I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football.

Steve Coppell

He's strong and when he's got a sight of goal he thinks about nothing but scoring. Whether he keeps his place and plays at the weekend, though, I don't know. Last time he was injured I was guilty of rushing him back too quickly, so we'll see how he reacts to two hours of football and take it from there.

Jon Gruden

He's everything we're looking for in an offensive linemen, in a future leader for our football team.

Marty Schottenheimer

He's pretty good, isn't he? I know that football teams know there is a formula for winning, and they've got it.

He's rusty. You can tell he hasn't played football in a while.

I don't think I have ever had a start that bad. We were down 20 before we ever touched the ball. But Elmwood had a lot to do with that. Elmwood has a pretty good football team.

Martin Compston

I don't regret giving up football for acting. I love football and am very proud I played for Morton. But the truth is, I wasn't going to get much higher in football. At the same time, I sensed I could go somewhere in acting. I'm 28, which is young for acting, whereas in football I'd now be near the end of my career.

I don't know if we pushed someone in the back or not. I'd like to see who wasn't holding on that play. ... It's a very unpopular way to lose a football game.

I don't know if they were wrong. Sure you want your 1-2-3-4 picks to make it ---- that's how you get to have a good football team. But it's going to be hard for a sixth- or seventh-rounder to make it.

I don't know if I've ever been more proud of a football team than I was today. Especially on defense.

I don't know if I've ever been involved in a football game where we gave away so much so many times.

Bill Cowher

I don't know if I've been around a player more respected on a football team.

I don't know if it's broken. Something is wrong with his hand. It was a big loss, he's a good football player and he's had the most practice time. We are a little more freewheeling with him.

Rich Rodriguez

I don't know how those people come up with that and I don't want to know. Georgia should be the favorites. They are a very good football team. We are playing them in their home state.

I didn't know a thing about football. But I got hooked.

J. D. Salinger

I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know.

Irwin Shaw

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

Jack Nicklaus

I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.

Jack Nicklaus

When I look back on when I grew up, not even football players lifted weights. That was back 50 years ago.

Jack Nicholson

I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread.

Jack Kent Cooke

As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.