I love football, football is my life. — Wayne Rooney
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. — Jose Mourinho
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 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
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. — Vince Lombardi
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 love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose. — Woody Hayes
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: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. — Elbert Hubbard
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite. — Verne Troyer
Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like. — Jurgen Klopp
I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell. — Alex Ferguson
Football is like life and I know life. — Rush Limbaugh
For me, football is more than a sport, just look at the impact it has on society. — Kylian Mbappe
Sometimes in football you have to score goals. — Thierry Henry
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game. — Queen Elizabeth II
Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins. — Johan Cruijff
Football is a more beautiful game in high definition. — Jose Mourinho
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball. — Bill Shankly
Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art. — Arsene Wenger
Without football, my life is worth nothing. — Cristiano Ronaldo
Top 10 Sports Football Quotes
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
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
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
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
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
Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn. — Pat Dye
Sports Football Image Quotes
It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners. — Roberto Baggio
I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated — Emmitt Smith
The real workout starts when you want to stop.
Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential. — Bud Wilkinson
I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it. — Arjen Robben
Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost. — Rinus Michels
Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
Sports Quotes
Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you. — Mike Tyson
Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do. — Stephen Curry
Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions. — Roddy Piper
Our bodies are capable of anything. It's our mind we have to convince.
It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport. — Fridtjof Nansen
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time. — Abraham Lincoln
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
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. — Walt Disney
There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results. — Nick Saban
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent. — Benjamin Bloom
What Is Football Quotes
The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think. — David Icke
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 is to Texas what religion is to a priest. — Tom Landry
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a vision, a dream.
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
If youre not failing once in a while, it probably means youre not stretching yourself.
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
Sports Championship Quotes
There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not. — Harry Vardon
It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong. — Larry Gelwix
A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches. — Chuck Daly
My failure gave me strength, my pain was my motivation.
Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time. — Teddy Sheringham
The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team. — Ron Jaworski
Usually a championship team is built on a strong defense. That is something you can bring to every game. A great attack is always going to be inconsistent - at least on the scoreboard - that's the nature of the game. — Anson Dorrance
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'. — Haile Gebrselassie
Winning the world championship in '66 was really the pinnacle of the whole thing, because to win a championship with an Australian made engine was a fantastic feather in our cap. — Jack Brabham
Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied. — Sparky Anderson
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. — Jean-Claude Killy
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
Football, beer, and above all gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else. — Bum Phillips
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. — Don Shula
Sport doesn't build character, it reveals it.
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
I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest - If you can't take it, you shouldn't play! — Jack Lambert
Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong. — Chuck Noll
When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us. — Marv Levy
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
The only way to prove you are a good sport is to lose.
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
Soccer Football Quotes
There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true. — Neymar
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
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
Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable. — Cristiano Ronaldo
It would've cost less, and left the previous owners with nothing, to go into liquidation. But it would also be humiliating for Celtic. So we paid all the bills. Celtic means the same to me as it does to other fans. I identify with the club and wish to be proud of it. — Fergus McCann
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
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
Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he's in a shampoo commercial. — Diego Maradona
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
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
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
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
Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that. — Alex Ferguson
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
Pro Football Quotes
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today. — Gerald R. Ford
I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field. — Walter Payton
Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats. — Herschel Walker
Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts. — Bob Lilly
Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry. — Barry Sanders
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass. — Ron Jaworski
If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same. — Bob Golic
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. — Frank Gifford
American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party. — Sue Lawley
I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf. — Joe Namath
Football Game Quotes
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
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
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
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
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. — Erma Bombeck
Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes. — Jurgen Klopp
There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God. — Theodore Hesburgh
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
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
Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it make it so. All of them are fearless. All of them are strong, quick. And all of them are part of a story that began long ago. A story written by men who found, in the sport, a demanding measure for their own courage and ability. — John Facenda
With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands. — Eli Manning
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. — Don Shula
It’s not a very big sport in the U.S. if you compare it to American football and baseball and the other — Ingemar Stenmark
Yes, I thought I was joining Manchester United, I was misled by all involved. I wasnt aware of another Manchester team — Robinho
The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team. — Frosty Westering
The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory. — Sepp Herberger
I do not think any thinking individual buys a sports franchise, or an English football club, to make money. — John W. Henry
Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back — Tony Adams
I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation. — Bob Devaney
Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football. — Frank Gifford
That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on. — John Lambie
Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation. — Landon Donovan
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. — Novak Djokovic
There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League. — George Vecsey
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. — Chris Evert
Energy is everything, in life, in football and in sports. — Mikel Arteta
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. — Irwin Shaw
Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day. — John Bishop
When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time. — Max McGee
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