Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Redknapp

I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio.

Harry Redknapp

Scholes was playing tiki-taka football when nobody in England knew what it was. He was another of those players, like Denis Law or Bobby Moore, who at 15 probably looked as if he wouldn't make it. Too small, you would think - can't run, dumpy little ginger nut - but then the ball would come to him and he would dazzle you. He was the best footballer in that Manchester United midfield, better than Ryan Giggs and Roy Keane.

Harry Redknapp

He's disappeared to Azerbaijan, or somewhere ridiculous in the world.

Harry S Truman

It's tougher to be a football coach than the President of the United States. You've got four years as a president, and they guard you. A football coach doesn't have anyone to protect him when things go wrong.

J. K. Rowling

He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs; another poured ice-white foam so thick that Harry thought it would have supported his weight if he'd cared to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds hovering over the surface of the water. Harry amused himself for a while turning the taps on and off, particularly enjoying the effect of one whose jet bounced off the surface of the water in large arcs.

H. L. Mencken

College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.

J. R. Moehringer

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

Jessica Simpson

There is only one, believe it or not. I did get knocked up by a baller. A big football player.

Jerry Angelo

That 'hundreds and hundreds' was taken totally out of context. When I was making a point to this person, I was making a point that over my 31 years in the National Football League I've seen a lot of changes. There were hundreds and hundreds of things over those years that I've seen that have gotten better. Domestic violence is one of those.

If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.

Koren Robinson

If I'm a better man than I am a football player, well, that's just fine.

Sven Eriksson

I can't understand why a player can't play football until he's charged.

Ron Zook

I don't think there's any question that we were a better football team this week than we were last week. It's important that we played a lot of people. We're going to need those guys down the road.

Brandon Stokley

I don't think there is. I think we're going to go out there and play football like we know how. That's what he wants us to do, to go out there and play, not necessarily for him, but to win the game.

Sven Eriksson

I am very pleased that we won and are starting to play football with the right spirit again.

He's not only big and strong, he's got moves. They were just better than we were tonight. They're going to win a lot of football games this year, that's for sure.

Jon Gruden

He's made plays. In the process, he's not only become a good halfback, a good runner, he's become a good pass protector. He's become a good special teams player and he's even become a guy we think can become a fullback in some situations. So he's come a long way as a football player.

However, it doesn't mean he will play football after that period. When that moment arrives, Gabriel will be tested to see if he is ready to play football or not.

How many football players have been on Sesame Street ? You want to be creative.

Joe Paterno

I don't look at it as something personal. All I wanted to do was make sure everyone knew that we have a good football team.

Vince Young

I don't listen to negative things from people that don't understand the game. When I hear positive things, it shows people that know football are really paying attention.

Come on. Football is instincts and reaction. It's not basketball, where you're waiting for somebody to set a screen. It's ludicrous.

Hunter S. Thompson

It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.

Hunter S. Thompson

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.

Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

Hunter S. Thompson

Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers. He hates music, football and sex, in no particular order, and he is no fun at all.

Hunter S. Thompson

There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .

I reminded them in the locker room, there's still a lot of football left in the season. This thing is going to be a wild race to the end, and hopefully we can keep getting better as a football team.

Pete Carroll

People are always looking for the hot new deal. I don't particularly like it because it takes away from the standard traditional football stuff.

People always question our league because of football.

Our kids are working hard. They haven't given up. They say they are willing to do what it takes to win football games. We'll see Friday if they're talking with their heart or just their mouth.

Rick Dickson

Our preference is to first identify a home away from home venue for our football team. The possibilities, there are more than a handful right now. We haven't weighed in on any of them at this point, and we haven't ruled any of them out.