Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graham Taylor

I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.

Graham Taylor

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

Graham Taylor

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

Graham Taylor

The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.

Graham Taylor

Very few great goals actually go in.

Graham Taylor

If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.

Graham Taylor

His football does not seem to suffer by all of this going on around him. You look at his passing and he makes it look so simple. When he passes the ball, it always seems to go where he wants it to go. That sounds simple, but believe me, it is not. (on David Beckham)

Graham Taylor

There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."

Jim Brown

I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me.

Jim Brown

I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

Jim Brown

I'm not pro-owner or pro-player. I am pro-football. I want the game to go on. I want the game to be tough. I don't want the game to be a killer of our players.

Jim Brown

If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.

Jim Brown

I loved the game. We played because we loved it.

Jim Brown

I'd rather play lacrosse six days a week and football on the seventh.

Jim Brown

When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

Jim Brown

The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.

Jim Brown

I don't teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that's not it. You don't have to be number 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

Jim Brown

Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts.

Howard Cosell

After all, is football a game or a religion?

Ice Cube

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

He really showed all of us who were there playing football for fun why it was so important to work hard. No one worked harder than him at his success. Seeing his success made all of us who played with him play harder.

Larry Thompson

He quit working out, and he quit doing anything. He lost 15 pounds and wasn't ready to play football out there in California. Luckily, he found a way to turn it around or it would have been a waste of talent.

He put in a lot of work over the summer. He really worked to improve. Playing varsity football, he's a hard-nosed kid. He has very solid (wrestling) technique. He's very strong at 130 pounds - that's one of his key traits.

Mark Dantonio

He plays consistently. We've got to get all of our football team playing like that.

He picked up some receivers on his second and third progression, which I haven't see him do for a while. He's growing, he's doing some good things. He's not just forcing the football all over the place.

Anne McCaffrey

Grady could write a football story in 15 minutes, and it would be a good one,

Isaiah Mustafa

I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.

Iker Casillas

I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person

Idris Elba

Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.

Elton John

I love football, but I'm sick of the World Cup. I don't even care about England.

Elton John

He [Ryan white] spoke to me that my life was out of order. My life was a mess. I had no values anymore. And he was so stoic with his infection. He wasn't bitter. He wasn't angry. He just was a kid. He wanted to go to school and play football, drive his car. And he had no bitterness about him.

Franco Harris

Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.

Ian Holloway

You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad.