Best Football Quotes Page 2

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

A lot of football success is in the mind.

You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

The best part of it for me is the idea that this group of young men, who came together and believed in themselves, bought the team concept completely, took the names off the back of the jerseys, checked the egos at the door.

I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle.

You have to feel you're the best at what you do.

You don't have to come out and say it. But you have to know it within yourself.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

I don't want records. I want a Super Bowl ring.

A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers.

To be great, he plays the piano. ...being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You’ve got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can’t really achieve anything great without the help of others.

I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.

We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful.

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.

Right now Von Miller is the best pass rusher in the world.

He looks exactly like Derrick Thomas did in his heyday. He can absolutely destroy a football game.

There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass.

As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer.

I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

They say that when you're the champs, everybody will try to beat you.

Well, I'm glad we're champs, so bring'em on, bring'em all on. If we die, we ain't gonna die running. It's gonna be a fight.

I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world

Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen.

There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me.

I do feel that I have unfinished business in the Premier League and now is the right time to return. I considered all the other offers very carefully and I firmly believe that Chelsea is the best choice. They match my footballing ambitions with their hunger and desire to win trophies.

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

You've got to play with that killer instinct, man.

You've got to hate that guy across from you. Then after the game is over, tell him what a nice guy he is. Shake his hand. Especially if you win.

Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football.

It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.

If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.

Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.

It's named the Lombardi Trophy for a reason, because we play and live in Titledown. We've got the best fans, and I can't wait to go home and see those fans and bring home the Lombardi Trophy.

Nobody can make you a loser.

Be patient with the negative people of the world.

Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify your own thinking and firming your own resolve. Then, headslap them out of your way.

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule.

I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.

For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play, it's a joke. Is it football? Are you guys football players? Is that what they call football? It's not iron-man football, where you stay on the field for 60 minutes. Everybody! We were iron men. Not a bunch of pussyfoots.

Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.

I want to keep winning, the hell with the record.

Success is about having, excellence is about being.

Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.