Football Quotes · Page 1,051

It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste…

— Fred Rogers

Some of my friends were gang-affiliated or gang-related, but that was just the way things were. I was lucky because football kept…

— Troy Deeney

Every moment, every practice, every game, everywhere; I just love competing. Competition is in my DNA.

— Brian Urlacher

I understand the NFL is a business. It's all about playing the game the way it was meant to be played. For…

— Nelson Agholor

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

— Gordon Strachan

Even when you are not having the ball, you have to stay consistent, organised, and that's what keeps you in the game.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

I get on the field, I feel like it's an opportunity to show that I can play football and I'm good at…

— George Kittle

When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football.

— Brent Musburger

We're all receivers, we make catches, we do all those little things, but sometimes you've got to separate yourself from others and…

— Cordarrelle Patterson

That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand…

— Anonymous

Carlo Ancelotti is a good coach and a good man. I worked with him for just three months at Parma, before I…

— Gianfranco Zola

You need to have a great, strong bladder to call professional sports because, especially in football where, you know, you don't know…

— Joe Buck

For me, you hear the stories about getting the life of luxury at Manchester United and people take that for granted, like…

— Scott McTominay

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All my career, I've played in great teams - Marseille was a great team, Arsenal was a great thing, but we never…

— Samir Nasri

I want to play differently because I think I have got something, something different, and if one day I let a goal…

— Marco Verratti

Immediately after games, we're talking about what we need to do for the next game. We're not satisfied in the moment that…

— Dwyane Wade

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I will keep working on different aspects of my games. It's not so easy, and I need to work on every stroke.

— P. V. Sindhu

It's a different animal when you're in the NBA. You come in this league and you've got 7-footers who play 7 foot…

— Dwane Casey

I like the emotion in the English league. You look at the TV, and you see the stadium and the fans.

— Alexandre Pato

I think that's the mind-set of how to do it, is every part of my game needs to continuously be improved.

— Cooper Kupp

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost…

— Pat Conroy

People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.

— Patrick Ewing

There's always a point that if you go forward you win, sometimes you win it all, and if you go back you…

— Philip Anschutz

You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

— Pat Summitt

When Diego won the World Cup in 1986, perhaps he had the luck that Messi has not had. Diego had very good…

— Mario Kempes

I know the 'big spending club v. smaller club' theme is popular in the Premier League. I don't think about it -…

— Nick Nurse

The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.

— Randy Moss

I would like to thank the Jaguars organization for giving me the opportunity to fulfill a lifelong dream of playing in the…

— Leonard Fournette

The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete,…

— Brian Griese

At the end of the day, I'm the one with the ball, and I've got to make a decision, and I have…

— Mac Jones

Basketball is a non-aggressive game. So when emotions are high, there's a very low chance to get angry or yell. So that's…

— Christian Laettner

Ronaldinho and Juninho Pernambucano for Lyon were two players I watched taking free-kicks as I grew up.

— Andreas Pereira

There's very few guys that play for one team their whole careers, nowadays, especially in the cap era it's a lot tougher.

— Brad Marchand

I like to come and get the ball. And I'm not a natural goalscorer even though I've scored goals throughout my career.

— Eidur Gudjohnsen

I played all sports when I was young. I was into wrestling, basketball, baseball, football, and I ran track. But wrestling was…

— Muggsy Bogues

To play in the white shirt of England is an honour, and you give your all every time you step on the…

— Jack Rodwell

Pele is out of normal patterns and I'm not saying this because I'm a Brazilian. You can't find a defect.

— Tite

I think being a championship-contending team, you have to have a championship-level coach to take you over the top.

— Jamal Crawford