Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerard Way

Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?

Herman Edwards

You gotta have a little kid in you to play football.

Herb Caen

We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.

Jerry Glanville

If you're a pro coach, NFL stands for 'Not for long.

Jeremy Clarkson

If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks.

Jeff Garcia

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

Jeff Garcia

I've been fortunate and blessed to further my career in the Arena Football League, and I've had a good time doing it.

Groucho Marx

You've got a goal in life. I've got a goal. Now all we need is a football team.

Goran Ivanisevic

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

Haley Barbour

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

Hale Irwin

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

Hope Solo

I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic.

Hope Solo

When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.

Ian Rush

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

Ian Rankin

I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

Ian St. John

Batistuta gets most of his goals with the ball

Ian St. John

I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.

Ian St. John

Kenny was actually here at Melwood as a 15-year-old schoolboy. He came on trial and he went home afterwards. It was only later that Bill Shankly realised that Dalglish was here as a boy and he went mad! He said 'how did we miss him?' Kenny just had the football brain. He was born with it and you can't give that to people. He had that natural born talent.

Iain Duncan Smith

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

Iain Dowie

It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.

Howard Wilkinson

I think if they hadn't scored, we might have got a better result.

Howard Wilkinson

I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.

Howard Wilkinson

The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game.

Howard Wilkinson

You can go to the pictures or read a book, but football constantly comes back into your mind. It's not a job, it's a life. It takes up your time, thoughts and energy and it can damage relationships with those around you.

Howard Wilkinson

As one door closes, another one shuts.

Gianfranco Zola

Italians have a very closed life. Football is all their life is.

Jacques Derrida

Beyond the touchline there is nothing.

Jacques Barzun

To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

Jack Youngblood

There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

Jack Youngblood

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

Jeanne Moreau

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

Glenn Roeder

When Andy Carroll first appeared on the scene he was a tall skinny kid and his coordination was all over the place. He reminded me of a giraffe.

Jeremy Shockey

After the game, I'm a completely different person. I drink some beers with friends and try to get my mind completely off football.