Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alvin Martin

Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.

Anthony Doerr

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

Anna Kendrick

You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!

Andrew Luck

I like to play football, read some books, study.

Clinton Morrison

I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.

Clifton Fadiman

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.

Danny Pudi

I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.

David Fincher

And I love shooting football.

David Coleman

Kevin Reeves...proving an ill wind blows nobody no good.

David Coleman

The ball has broken 50-50 for Keegan

David Coleman

Both of the Villa scorers were born in Liverpool, as was the Villa manager, who was born in Birkenhead.

David Soul

One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.

David Pleat

He is an interesting player - short back legs.

David Pleat

A game is not won until it is lost.

David Pleat

There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham.

David Pleat

He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.

David Pleat

I've enjoyed my time in the game, whether it be managing Luton in the top flight, taking Spurs to Wembley or, as director of football, pinpointing players such as Jermain Defoe, Paul Robinson and Robbie Keane with real sell-on value.

David Pleat

You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.

David Pleat

When you've got a mountain to climb you may as well throw everything into the kitchen sink.

David Pleat

There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game.

David Pleat

Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.

Corey Dillon

I don't take a day off. I don't slack. All I know is hard-nose football. There ain't no breaks or vacations for me.

Corey Dillon

I played with a left hamstring injury since playing college football at Washington University. I went to doctors all over the country to find out what was wrong, and none of them could figure out the problem in my hamstring. I went to Drs. Baker and they found a huge knot in my hamstring. They were able to release it and fix my hamstring problem.

Andrew Luck

Football is what you do, but it's not who you are. It's a big part of who you are. Part of who you are is you're a football player. It's your profession. It's a game you love to play. It's a game I love to play.

Andre Maurois

To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.

Andy Murray

I'd have loved to have been a footballer. I was always playing football and I enjoyed it much more than tennis to begin with. It's more fun to play in a team, all the parents are there cheering you on.

Andrew Ferguson

I want to go to a place where I can go to a football game, take off my shirt, paint my chest and major in beer.

Andrew Dice Clay

I think the best part of being gay is when you're done [with sex], you could turn over and talk about football.

Alisher Usmanov

I like Arsene for his principles but principles are sort of a restriction and restrictions are always lost possibilities.

Alisher Usmanov

It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

Andy Partridge

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.

Andy Partridge

And all the world is football shaped, It's just for me to kick in space, And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste, And I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime, Trying to take this all in, I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime, Trying to taste the difference, 'Tween the lemons and limes, The pain and the pleasure, And the church bells softly chime.

Alastair Campbell

I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someone in football, they can't turn up to training the next day. In politics they're still on the pitch. Gordon would still have been a big player.