Football Quotes · Page 1,087

In both games, you have to think fast. In chess you tend to know all the patterns already, just like in football.

— Edgar Davids

It's the price on the ticket and emphasizes the pressure every manager is under weather you are at the top or bottom…

— Graeme Souness

There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are]…

— Marcus Allen

“So their cheerleaders are ugly, their football players are wimps, and they're our archrivals because why?”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“So – that’s sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isn’t it?’ ‘What’s basketball?’ said Wood curiously. ‘Never mind,’ said…

— J.K. Rowling

And when you're a coach your main concern is the players and the coaches. The last concern you have is really about…

— Herm Edwards

A lot of time, you play well and you do good work, but you are not on a good team, so it…

— Chauncey Billups

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely…

— Mike Quade

I like to peruse the Full Contact Poker online forums to read and comment on posts about interesting poker hands and whether…

— Daniel Negreanu

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on…

— Dr. Seuss

You want every senior go out like the seniors did last year having the best year of their career. But that's not…

— Dan Monson

There aren't any negative thoughts about my time in Detroit; I just didn't play. Sometimes you have to go through that at…

— Khris Middleton

Sometimes you lose - perhaps because you play against the very best, or because surprises happen - but if there is organizational…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Well you always want to play against the best. That's what you're going to get in the Super Bowl. To go against…

— Russell Wilson

What shocked me, and what I wasn't prepared for, was just how brutal and how unethical some people can be in the…

— Terry Crews

There's two sides to the game, and you have to do the ugly side as well. If you're getting beat, and you're…

— Lee Cattermole

You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing.

— Terrell Davis

I can't control what team I play for, I control how I prepare, how I work, how I interact with the guys…

— Gardner Minshew

I think Ancelotti really likes London and he likes the way football is played over here. That doesn't surprise me because, after…

— Gianfranco Zola

I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen…

— Alex Kapranos

Just the high level of consistency over a quarter-century, that's what I'm most proud of. And then being able to deliver big…

— Morten Andersen

It's not only conceivable, but it's my goal to stay at Bayern for a long time - under the assumption that I…

— Joshua Kimmich

I came up and was a first-round draft pick and there was a lot of hype and a lot of expectation, and…

— Pat Burrell

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

— Craig Ferguson

One of my favorite things to do is teach kids to shoot a basketball. When they finally get it and their eyes…

— Maya Moore

I have two years left on my contract with Hertha Berlin, but I'd like to play in England and if I'm offered…

— Ali Daei

When you're having a tough time as a team, you all need to stay together - you can't start becoming individuals.

— Adam Lallana

Essentially, when you join a team, you're making a commitment to your team. You can't take that lightly.

— John Stockton

Football is simple, you're either on time, or you're too late. If you're too late then you have to leave earlier.

— Johan Cruijff

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay…

— Frank Lampard

You go through mental preparation the night before the game and prepare for moments of trauma in a game when it happens.

— Robert Green

“Life is a Game you play only once you don't get the second chance and if you get you will never come…

— Sandeep Kakkar

Growing up, I used to look at Thierry Henry and I just really wanted to do stuff that he did in the…

— Aaron Wan-Bissaka

That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would…

— Angela Merkel

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

— Michael Mandelbaum

Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals

— George Hamilton

I understand football. I have always been a good footballer, and that gets overlooked by most people.

— Alan Smith

I'm going to go out there and work hard. I'm going to get better, I'm going to learn from my mistakes and…

— Brian Griese

I probably would have played baseball if I had stayed in California... But I like Oklahoma better now. Football is bigger here.…

— Troy Aikman

I'm a competitor. No matter what I'm doing, whether I'm golfing, whether I'm playing indoor soccer with my fiancé - he's not…

— Carli Lloyd