Football Quotes · Page 1,436

As a player, you never want a penalty shoot-out, because it is a lottery to some extent. You'd rather win in 90 minutes.

— Thomas Muller

A lot of times when you probably come into the NBA as a younger player, you're gonna probably build your habits based…

— Billy Donovan

When I think of my best coaches, I think of the guys who can deliver a message, who can allow their will,…

— Mark Jackson

I want to get the ball, like I think I can do more every year, every opportunity, but at the end of…

— Nelson Agholor

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens…

— Bill Cowher

I'm an energy giver. I give energy to other players, they get hyped, they start to guard better, play better and it's…

— Domantas Sabonis

I have justified why I wanted to come to Manchester City because I have won trophies and improved.

— Kyle Walker

You can take off a football jersey, but you can never take off your faith. That goes with you everywhere.

— Kurt Warner

My worst moment was in 2006, in Germany, without any doubt! The defeat in the knockout phase of the World Cup 2006 against Portugal.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

I try to take as many reps as I can, whether it's on a video game, playing EA 'Madden Football' or in…

— Teddy Bridgewater

It's part of, I guess, one of the harder parts about coaching is you have to make some tough decisions.

— Mike Budenholzer

Mourinho is known for getting under players' skins, tickling and goading better performances out of them.

— Andre Schurrle

My job is to recruit the best players I can recruit. When they get here, challenge them and grow them into their…

— Dabo Swinney

It's nice when a big team like Real Madrid is interested in you, but I decided to win with Paris.

— Marco Verratti

When you have a coach that is a competitor, that wants to win more than anything else, it really carries over to…

— Rudy Gobert

You cannot have players come on and not make the impact because the game will slowly slip away from you. It is…

— Danny Ings

When I am on the pitch, I don't focus on the opposition fans. I am focused on doing my best for the…

— Samir Nasri

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that…

— Bill Walton

I want to progress, I want to get better and it really helps when you play with top players like Declan alongside…

— Jude Bellingham

The boost in confidence that kept me going in those early days when I was at Newcastle came from Peter Beardsley.

— Ivan Toney

Join the club. (to Robbie Fowler after the striker missed a penalty against Middlesbrough that cost Man City a European place)

— Stuart Pearce

It is definitely what my aim is to get everyone to do their part and take on that responsibility of being a…

— Fabian Delph

I think there's some certain attitudes and certain guys that can feed some positive energy, and that keeps you going through an…

— Nick Nurse

We have given ourselves the means of our ambitions, and in football, when we give ourselves the means, it is always less…

— Kylian Mbappe

The enjoyment of playing football gave me a positive pathway, but I could have taken a very different path.

— Alex Scott

When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made

— Mark Webber

“Watch people when they win, and you will learn something. But watch them when they lose, and you will learn even more.”

— Pang-Mei Natasha Chang

After Euro 2008, football in England was shattered for a bit, and people were losing interest in following England.

— Gareth Barry

The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.

— Freeman Dyson

If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration…

— Bill Walsh

When the chance came to join a great club like Liverpool, I weighed up my options and it was obviously the best…

— Nicolas Anelka

Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things…

— Frederick Lenz

I pick first my best team, and my captain from that team and I only pick players that are on form.

— Rudolph Straeuli

I think I've shown the world I'm a fierce competitor, yes. But I've also shown them that I'm a fierce human being.

— Adam Rippon

The way you execute in this league is through repetition, and that's both offensively and defensively.

— Tom Thibodeau

Messi is the same player in Barcelona and Argentina, and it would be the same if he played with Australia.

— Ernesto Valverde

Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again.…

— Vinnie Jones

“My confidence grew out of knowing that when the spirit was right and the players were attuned to one another, the game…

— Phil Jackson

I went to Italy as a 21-year-old when I could easily have stayed in Argentina, playing for the biggest club in the…

— Hernan Crespo

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

— Derek Bailey