The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field — Wendy Mass
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball. — Bill Shankly
The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts. — Darrell Royal
The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game. — Wim Crouwel
College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night. — Rick Reilly
Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time. — Arnold J. Mandell
Football is a more beautiful game in high definition. — Jose Mourinho
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. — Tom Landry
Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. — Joe Namath
Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing. — Ellyse Perry
Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football. — Pele
This ain't a football game, we do this every day. — Earl Weaver
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. — Elbert Hubbard
The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage. — John Madden
I want you to be forever strong on the field, so that you will be forever strong off the field. — Larry Gelwix
Short Football Field Quotes
American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party. — Sue Lawley
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. — Jose Mourinho
When I get on the field, I feel unstoppable. — Steve McNair
Act like you expect to get into the end zone. — Joe Paterno
Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation. — Bob Ufer
Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest. — Tom Landry
Football is like life and I know life. — Rush Limbaugh
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up. — Knute Rockne
Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent. — Dan Marino
In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game. — Hayden Fry
Football Field Image Quotes
The future lies before you, like a field of fallen snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.
Football Pitch Quotes
Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes. — Sayings
The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. — Nick Hornby
Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it. — Alex Salmond
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it. — Nick Hornby
I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends. — Dennis Bergkamp
We won't ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer's life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it. — Darren Fletcher
The future lies before you, like a field of fallen snow; Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.
I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team. — Gary Neville
Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them. — Paul Merson
For years Paul Scholes has been one of the best players in the Premiership. He's incredible. He has always been under-rated throughout his career. He's a team player, a one and two-touch footballer who makes good decisions on the pitch and makes his team play. — Thierry Henry
The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break. — Arsene Wenger
What Is Football Quotes
The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think. — David Icke
Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for. — Ernie Davis
The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be. — Tom Landry
Football, beer, and above all gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character. — Walter Camp
I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach. — Bill Belichick
It's time for the New England Patriots to move on and that's what our job is. And as I said, our goal is the same: to have a winning football team, to be a pillar in the community. That's what our direction is; that's what we're going to do. — Bill Belichick
I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me. — Jurgen Klopp
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. — E. M. Forster
Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that! — Bill Parcells
What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment. — Thierry Henry
Football Game Quotes
A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit. — Pele
Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last. — Ronaldinho
Mike, did you ever see the movie 'Cast Away?' In that movie, Tom Hanks' only friend was a ball named Wilson. In this game, Russell Wilson's only friend is a football. — Jon Gruden
I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. — Les Miles
Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young or old, players or fans, rich or poor, the game makes everyone equal, stirs the imagination, makes people happy and makes them sad — Franz Beckenbauer
I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose. — Woody Hayes
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. — Duffy Daugherty
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. — Lionel Messi
If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible. — Wilhelm Reich
Football Team Quotes
You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team. — Eric Cantona
Hungry is a word that I've been analyzing here of late. It's not hunger that drives me, it's not hunger that needs to drive our football team. Hunger and thirst are things that can be quenched. We have to be a driven group, we have to seek greatness. — Mike Tomlin
When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. — Dennis Bergkamp
A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful — Arsene Wenger
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day! — Les Miles
It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team. — Woody Hayes
In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves. — Bill Shankly
If I know that I am the tiniest speck of dust around for a split second only, then why was I so upset when my fantasy football team lost on Sunday? — Tim Urban
Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate. — Sayings
Football Player Quotes
It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain. — Ian Rush
If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both — George Best
Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem. — Pele
If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother. — Bo Jackson
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. — Pele
If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later. — Bob Paisley
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. — Don Shula
I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field. — Walter Payton
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton
If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler. — Jack Lambert
Football Match Quotes
A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one. — Peter Drury
When I arrive at the gates of Heaven the Good Lord will ask ‘what did you do in your life?’ I will respond ‘I tried to win football matches.’ He will say: ‘Are you certain that’s all?’ But, well, that’s the story of my life. — Arsene Wenger
Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them. — Jose Mourinho
We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us. — Ruud Gullit
I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford. — George Best
When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not. — Sayings
Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind. — Roy Keane
For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together. — Eamon de Valera
Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears. — Bill Shankly
People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what? — Roy Keane
Nfl Football Quotes
A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to. — Tom Landry
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence. — Tom Landry
A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order. — Bud Grant
You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else. — Bum Phillips
I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me! — Bea Arthur
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time. — Babe Ruth
I've felt some great feelings on the baseball field... in front of 50,000 people and millions on TV... but the feeling you get when you give a kid a chance, that is a hundred times greater than that feeling. — Cal Ripken, Jr.
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black. — Mike Schmidt
I don't know (if they were men or women running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads. — Yogi Berra
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? — Jim Bouton
I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else. — Wayne Gretzky
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it. — Al Lopez
Football Season Quotes
I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability. — LeBron James
Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg. — Bobby Robson
There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season. — Darius Rucker
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. — Bill Peterson
Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake. — John Facenda
I've been consistent in patches this season. — Theo Walcott
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
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows. — Bennett Cerf
I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger. — Terry Bradshaw
The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again. — Sally Quinn
Sports Football Quotes
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. — Henry Van Dyke
Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day. — Ray Lewis
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in general. The first time I was a bridesmaid, to my auntie, I refused to go down the aisle without my football shorts underneath my dress. — Cara Delevingne
The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb. — Knute Rockne
Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn. — Pat Dye
If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed. — Kurt Warner
It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners. — Roberto Baggio
Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that. — Alex Ferguson
With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands. — Eli Manning
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field. — Snoop Dogg
Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score. — Tim Tebow
Johan was more than just a great soccer player. He was a role model who promoted world peace. He brought the values of education into the game of football and proved that on the field, everyone is equal - Jews, Muslims and Christians - that running fast and playing well will lead to victory in spite of discrimination and racism. — Roger Milla
I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game. — Roy Clark
I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game. — Roy Clarke
Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds. — Sachin Tendulkar
To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game. — Jerry Rice
I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work. — Jerry Rice
My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field. — Bo Jackson
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. — Lewis H. Lapham
The scoreboard can't make you a loser. If you walk off the field with your head up, you don't lose. You don't hang your head for nobody. People in the stands think you're the greatest or the worst - their opinion doesn't make a difference. The only opinion that makes any difference is your own opinion of yourself. — Dan Marino
It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing as if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him. — Alex Ferguson
No matter what happens on the football field it doesn't change the kind of person I am. — Kurt Warner
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. — John Steinbeck
On the field accolades are great, but in order to reach your full potential, you have to overstep the boundaries of football and go out into the community and be an All-Pro there too. — Derrick Thomas
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. — Chuck Bednarik
I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work. — Drew Brees
If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested. — Stanley Rous
What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life. — Michael Vick
On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out. — Kurt Warner
Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper. — J. R. Moehringer
Without fans who pay at the turnstile, football is nothing. Sometimes we are inclined to forget that. The only chance of bringing them into stadiums is if they are entertained by what happens on the football field. — Jock Stein
One of these days, someone smarter and younger and more articulate than I is going to get through to the American people just how really messed up the federal government has become. And when that happens, the American people are going to rise up like that football crowd in Cleveland and run both teams off the field. — Zell Miller
There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat. — Cam Newton
There's no "I" on the football field. We have a total commitment to each other when we're out there. There is no doubt. It doesn't matter. The wins and losses of the game don't resonate with us. What resonates with us is "how much effort would you give for the man next to you." — Ray Lewis
I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then Id go baseball, and then Id go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something. — Joe Gibbs
I’m concerned that if one of those two areas doesn’t play up to par – if they give up some points or they can’t run the football – and it gets stuck on Russell Wilson’s shoulders…if he has to stay in the pocket against good defenses, read coverages, make the right plays, see the field, that’s where I worry. — Kurt Warner
We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff'. — Michael Morpurgo
Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with. — Brett Favre
To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it. — John Madden
My thing is, and I've always been this way - to get to know as many people as I possibly can on a personal level, so that way, when you get on the football field, you've got your buddy right beside you, and you're ready to go. — Russell Wilson
Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I added five years to his career, and I just think we complimented each other very well and were able to do some amazing things out on the football field. — Jerry Rice
The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field, no bat, no ball, no skis, no skates. All other athletes have to use equipment, like a football. But I don't use anything in competition except myself. It's just me up there. Me alone. No coach. No nothing. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. — Steve Sabol
I was aggressive but I played the game because I loved and enjoyed it. I might have hurt people and I got hurt myself a few times, but not with any malice. When I went on to the field I just wanted to play football. I didn't go out to kick anybody purposely. I just enjoyed playing and if that's aggression, then I'm guilty of that. — Bob Paisley
Shevchenko is the best attacker in Europe. He has a great deal of consistency and he just keeps scoring - which in Italian football is very difficult. He is a complete player, someone who can do everything on a football field. — Andriy Shevchenko
I guess Madden had seen everything with out group, and everybody else had seen everything. (After coming to practice field riding a horse and wearing a German WWI helmet painted silver and black) — Ted Hendricks
My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you. — David Beckham
You made it something special. Most of all, I want to thank the fans for your support not through the great times that we shared on the football field, but for the last 17 years of my life. You have supported me through all times. — Michael Irvin
Doping in English football is restricted to lager and baked beans with sausages. After which the players take to the field, belching and farting. English football culture is one of pure, intense competition, and that's why I have always preferred it to Italy. — Paolo Di Canio
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