Football Quotes · Page 1,033

We're not working for participation trophies. We're trying to win championships and win football games.

— Brady Quinn

“Try more strategy and less force. Passion never wins any game, never mind what they say.” He said something similar now: “Excuses…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I realised when I was a striker that when I ended up wide on the left or right, it can be so…

— Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

In college, they tell you what you need to do every day. In the NBA, they don't. You figure it out on…

— Nikola Vucevic

Any team I come up against I feel like I'm going to have the beating of the centre halves as long as…

— Ollie Watkins

Some of the best tape that I've ever studied was Mike Shanahan and John Elway in Denver, back-to-back Super Bowl win teams.

— Jon Gruden

When I'm done with football, I want to be done with football. I don't want to have, Oh, did I leave too…

— Terrell Suggs

Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog..." "You play with the cards you're dealt... Whatever that means.

— Charles M. Schulz

I wanted to the best player in the state - [the best] the area has ever seen. That's always been my goal.…

— Kevin Durant

If you're not a scoring point guard, people don't think of you as highly. They don't think of you as the type…

— Mike Conley Jr

Life is like a game, people cheat, some may leave your game, and some will stay to see you loose; but no…

— Xavier Zayas

“Little by little, the plan changed because one of the pillars of Pep’s methods is based on the evolution of the process.…

— Guillem Balague

It's frustrating missing any game but when you are away in the summer and then you come back and you are not…

— Andy Carroll

When Jose Mourinho went to Real Madrid many moons ago, he no question was the man, but he turned them into a…

— Steve Nicol

I started this job in 1995, and I felt the same pressure in my first day, with my first team, Reggiana, in…

— Carlo Ancelotti

I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can…

— Mary Pierce

The Lakers have always been on the forefront and anywhere LeBron has been, has been on the forefront.

— Frank Vogel

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

— George Orwell

When you ask any player when they enjoyed their football, it was before the politics - when they just played, never thought…

— Emile Heskey

The Big Six teams have long been waging a greedy campaign for a bigger slice of the Premier League pie.

— Simon Jordan

The reason why I play 'Madden' is because in 'Madden,' I can control everything, and in the game of life and the…

— Doug Baldwin

There's a reason the Panthers have been successful over the years and Cam Newton's a big factor in that equation. He does…

— Sean McDermott

The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.

— George Hamilton

Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for…

— Brian O'Driscoll

I have always and will continue to put myself in the mix at the end of every tournament. That's what I play…

— Johanna Konta

Whether it's a club game, Ranji Trophy game or an IPL game, the way I prepare mentally never changes.

— Mayank Agarwal

Playing in a team like Arsenal helps massively having all of these players around you giving you advice. When they are playing…

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

When you start looking at guys like Brett Favre, for instance, and other great quarterbacks that have played - Peyton Manning -…

— Troy Aikman

Obviously the game is more enjoyable when the ball is shared and everybody looks for each other on both ends of the…

— Toni Kukoc

My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.

— Johan Cruyff

I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make…

— Jevon Kearse

I think a lot of athletes when they get in their mid and late 30s, they focus more on kids, on family.

— Justin Gatlin

I think if anybody has an opportunity to play professional basketball, to not transcend that into off-the-court endeavors is really a waste.

— Harrison Barnes

Try to put our guys in different positions, try some different combinations, et cetera, to prepare us for the playoffs, which is…

— Nick Nurse

I think we need to start to punish time wasting more rigorously, for example with more additional time or earlier yellow cards.

— Mats Hummels

This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.

— Blake Griffin

I want to move to one of Europe's best clubs if I leave Rotterdam, just like Robin van Persie and Kuyt did…

— Georginio Wijnaldum

The best all-around [running] back in the league is Jamaal Charles. He has the ability to hit a homerun from anywhere.

— LaDainian Tomlinson

Obviously nerves are only natural. It's how you deal with those nerves and it's how you put that on a football pitch.

— Scott McTominay

As long as I have the ability and the health to play, and continue to enjoy it, I don't want to stop.

— Carson Palmer