Football Quotes · Page 1,224

You would never train people to play football by telling them to watch football. You make them play football.

— Simon Rattle

Four-men aren't used to picking up guys pushing the ball in transition. Let alone, somebody getting the rebound and just busting.

— Draymond Green

I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.

— Jurgen Klinsmann

When it comes to understanding how to talk in English about football, I always watch 'Match of the Day.'

— Richarlison

Russell [Wilson] plays really well in the pocket [and] outside the pocket. He’s just a play waiting to happen.

— Deion Sanders

My idea of football has always been about keeping a high tempo, pressing and counter-pressing, something in America they now call 'Ralfball.'

— Ralf Rangnick

When you've got guys touching the ball on the offensive end, they're really into the defensive end.

— O. J. Mayo

I wanted to be a huge soccer player. I wanted to be the best in soccer when I grew up. But my…

— Amanda Nunes

I think I have some ideas on coaching, but listen, coaches work harder than players. The hours they put in, the headaches…

— Tim Howard

Some of those 10, nine-year vets, they know some things that your typical college senior wouldn't. I've come across some guards in…

— Mike Daniels

I always said as a kid that I'd like to play for United, and I once spoke to Sir Alex Ferguson about…

— Alexis Sanchez

It hasn't even been competitive. That's the first thing we're going to have to do is just find a way to stay…

— Bill Belichick

My seventh-grade year, I played football. I was, like, 15 pounds overweight, so I had to lose a ton of weight. They…

— Zach Ertz

Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture…

— Sarah Silverman

You have to understand, it takes a lot of qualities to play linebacker - quickness, tackling ability and sheer force - so…

— Cris Carter

To be sure, playing it safe isn't a flashy style of poker. Some even claim that it's too weak and passive. That…

— Daniel Negreanu

I'm sure players in Europe would like to play in MLS, but you maybe have to change some little things to make…

— Bastian Schweinsteiger

When I lose a big game, I am angry and always in a bad mood, and I will talk about other stuff…

— Thomas Tuchel

I don't watch football. When I'm finished with training, I go home and watch movies, TV shows, and disconnect completely.

— Weston McKennie

I'm not the same without the 10 other guys on that football field playing their tail off to move the ball down…

— Travis Kelce

I was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking…

— Glenn Healy

All I have to do is keeping on focusing on what Max Holloway does, and that's winning - and winning fashionably.

— Max Holloway

I never said I was going to play for Boca but rather that, if I went back to Argentina to play, I…

— Gabriel Batistuta

You can do a lot of breakdown on games you played, but the takeaways from games you've played has to be on…

— Jill Ellis

If you pray for things, I am proof that they can happen. I want to repay the manager's faith in bringing me…

— Robbie Fowler

My biggest idol has always been Ronaldinho Gaucho. He was the player I most liked to see play on television.

— Joao Cancelo

When you bring a winner onto your team, he knows how to win, he's going to help your team win, and that's…

— Malcolm Brogdon

“Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it…

— Bill Shankly

I went to Northampton on loan, it was long ball, not really my style. It was hard for me to make a…

— Kemar Roofe

Since I finished my football career, I've had the opportunity to do a lot of public speaking engagements.

— Mark Schlereth

Contract year or not a contract year, I'm playing the exact same way and focused on the exact same things.

— Blake Griffin

I have always said to myself, if you play well and do your best for Sunderland, then there is a chance you…

— Darren Bent

The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt…

— Caroline Kennedy

Maybe an orange card could be shown that sees a player go out of the game for 10 minutes for incidents that…

— Marco van Basten

One of the best things is to be able to go to the playoffs and win a championship. After you taste the…

— Robinson Cano

I've always been a fan of Odell from afar. He's got great size, great speed, unbelievable hands, he can get the ball…

— Nelson Agholor

Even at Sunderland, they have a sensory room as well so more clubs are trying to do more things, and that's how…

— Alex Brooker

The NBA game is a different game, and that's one of the things that intrigued me is it's learning and growing in…

— Billy Donovan

I'm certain I can fit in at Barca and prove that all the effort they made to get me here was worth…

— Paulinho

Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends

— Zinedine Zidane