I love football, football is my life. — Wayne Rooney
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game. — Queen Elizabeth II
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. — Jose Mourinho
I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose. — Woody Hayes
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball. — Bill Shankly
The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always. — Jurgen Klopp
Football is a more beautiful game in high definition. — Jose Mourinho
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
Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art. — Arsene Wenger
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
Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football. — John Madden
My foot, for a football player, is very beautiful! — Neymar
Short Great Football Quotes
Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing. — Jay Mohr
Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like. — Jurgen Klopp
Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation. — Bob Ufer
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up. — Knute Rockne
I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell. — Alex Ferguson
Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins. — Johan Cruijff
Football is like life and I know life. — Rush Limbaugh
Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is. — Johan Cruijff
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite. — Verne Troyer
Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost. — Rinus Michels
Great Football Image Quotes
There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it. — Jim Harbaugh
Silence is a source of great strength.
Good Football Quotes
I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person. — Iker Casillas
Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last. — Ronaldinho
But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime. — Ernie Davis
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
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
A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order. — Bud Grant
I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me. — Jurgen Klopp
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
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
Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father. — Barry Sanders
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. — Don Shula
They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach. — Joe Paterno
Great Soccer Quotes
I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time. — Ronaldinho
He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something. — Cristiano Ronaldo
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
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment. — Thierry Henry
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life. — George Best
I think sport can play a really positive role in young girls’ lives and be great to see as many of them playing sport as possible. — Ellyse Perry
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning. — John Piper
I got to move on. I got to keep making winning plays. I got to keep competing. I got to keep finding ways to help my team be great. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing. — Ellyse Perry
That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on. — John Lambie
Sports Football Quotes
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
Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for. — Ernie Davis
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. — Henry Van Dyke
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
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
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
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
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 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
The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb. — Knute Rockne
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. — Duffy Daugherty
Great Baseball Quotes
I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can. — Babe Ruth
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day. — Willie Mays
I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have. — Tony La Russa
To a great mind, nothing is little.
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.
Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. — Woodie Held
Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. — Joe Schultz
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. — Al Gallagher
I don't know (if they were men or women running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads. — Yogi Berra
Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you. — Mickey Mantle
Football Team Quotes
You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team. — Eric Cantona
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
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
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful — Arsene Wenger
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
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
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
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
Football Season Quotes
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
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
I Love Football Quotes
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
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
Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state! — Bear Bryant
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
Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass. — Terry Crews
It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that's all that really matters to me. — Marshawn Lynch
I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice. — Wayne Rooney
How lucky I was to have played for the Pittsburgh Steelers fans. A proud, hard-working people, who loves their football, and their players. — Jack Lambert
I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark. — Ian Holloway
Personally, I love training, and getting paid to play football is incredible. Playing the game and working hard is what I have always dreamed of doing. — Harry Kane
Great Sport Quotes
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. — Wilma Rudolph
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters. — Herman Edwards
I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you. — Seve Ballesteros
You must show no mercy...nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you...for your greatness will silence them all. — The Ultimate Warrior
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that. — Jerry West
Football Match Quotes
A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one. — Peter Drury
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
The little boy inside me was screaming 'Manchester United'. United breathes football... the perfect match for me. — Robin van Persie
Inspiring Football Quotes
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. — Ralph Marston
There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true. — Neymar
God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it. — Ronaldinho
Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to. — Trent Shelton
A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to. — Tom Landry
Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable. — Cristiano Ronaldo
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence. — Tom Landry
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. — Lou Holtz
You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else. — Bum Phillips
If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens — J. J. Watt
I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here. — Bill Belichick
Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football. — Jim Harbaugh
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
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
Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz
The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team. — Frosty Westering
I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard bearer, someone that players, coaches, fans and the Raider Nation can all look up to. One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled. — Al Davis
I'm here today because God has brought me here. Jesus has brought me here...I'm with an amazing team. I believe He perfectly placed me in the right spot at the right time. — Russell Wilson
Louisiana has a heritage of great players that play their high school football within the boundaries of Louisiana. — Les Miles
I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player. — Robert Griffin III
Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary. — Sayings
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
The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona. — Diego Maradona
The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. — Martina Navratilova
At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any. — Erk Russell
I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always. — Arsene Wenger
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. — Don Francis
That’s why we love football: it’s not about the money or about the hairstyle or the dancing. We want to see beautiful goals, great tackles, fair play, and all this stuff. — Paul Pogba
There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers. — John Steinbeck
We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this. — Lorik Cana
Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me. — Cristiano Ronaldo
Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on. — Chuck Noll
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. — Vince Lombardi
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. — Pat Riley
You can't spell Citrus without UT — Steve Spurrier
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. — Jose Mourinho
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