Football Quotes · Page 1,468

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends.…

— Taylor Lautner

It's good to always have a quick turnaround with games, especially when you've got momentum because you can build on that and…

— Ollie Watkins

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

— Orson Scott Card

Sometimes you can say it is boring being in goal, but what is important is I am in communication with the defence.

— Manuel Neuer

What can you say about Messi? A guy who has won five Ballon d'Ors, four Champions Leagues and has scored 97 goals…

— Javier Zanetti

On a professional level it would be cool to get involved in Toronto FC somehow, to be honest. You could say it's…

— Jozy Altidore

I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed…

— Drew Brees

I've had some fantastic years with the Portuguese team. I've always been treated well, perhaps better than I ever hoped to be.

— Deco

If I can get a goal one game and then maybe the next game I get an assist and the next game…

— Callum Hudson-Odoi

Logically, if there was a chance to improve and go to a bigger club, it would be a good opportunity, although there…

— Pepe Reina

Members that were in their early-20s are now in their mid-30s, so the style of our team should also change.

— Ok Taec-yeon

U-M has provided me the chance to live my dream of playing college basketball and to earn a Michigan degree.

— Caris LeVert

The dream of every footballer and why we train and work is to reach the top, and a World Cup is the…

— Giovani Dos Santos

If you don't train in a certain way because you think you won't play, you have to do more in the week…

— Gennaro Gattuso

Experience is a big thing when playing in the Premier League - it's a different game to any other league.

— Harry Maguire

Everybody wants things now. If I hadn't been given the time at Stoke, or at other clubs earlier in my career, I…

— Tony Pulis

I have been following the Premier League very closely because once you have been a footballer you have an affinity with the…

— Jay-Jay Okocha

I have no question that when you have a team, the possibility exists that it will generate magic, producing something extraordinary But…

— J. Richard Hackman

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they…

— Alan Shearer

All I can say is I am a footballer, and if a club like Milan are interested in me, then I cannot…

— Emmanuel Adebayor

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter who plays once we win the game, that's the most important thing.

— Matt Doherty

You get yourself prepared for a big game, you get yourself up for it. Then afterwards you don't sleep or eat properly.

— Ryan Giggs

When Brazil lose, someone has to be guilty, and it's always Rivaldo. It's different with Romario. He plays in Brazil, and they…

— Rivaldo

A lot of goals are scored when defenders lose their concentration for a split second and a forward makes a run in…

— Becky Sauerbrunn

Coach Noll is quite demanding all the time. He expects a lot from both his players and assistant coaches because that is…

— Mike Webster

You never really know someone until you play UNO with them, and the asshole hits you with a 'Draw 4.'

— Anonymous

Don't say I don't get along with my teammates. I just don't get along with some of the guys on the team.

— Terrell Owens

Pep is not the best coach in the world. I prefer Mourinho. He is the No.1, because Mourinho is more transparent and…

— Lothar Matthaus

Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.

— Tom Stoppard

Whether I'm doing good or bad, it is my job, it is my duty as a leader to be the same person…

— Francisco Lindor

Being wrong on facts, that's something you have a real responsibility to correct. But being wrong in the fun sports way is…

— Joe Posnanski

You create a big-club mentality with the trust of the players, the trust that the team will get results, and then, when…

— Manuel Pellegrini

Kobe never got complacent. He always wanted more. And I think, ultimately, that's going to be his legacy.

— J. J. Redick

No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.

— Terry Bradshaw

When you watch Chris Paul on the playoff stage, you often sense he is fighting two battles, one against his nature and…

— Skip Bayless

Celtic are one of the biggest teams. I've been happy here, and the fans have been brilliant to me.

— Victor Wanyama

When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely…

— Gary Lineker

Rafael Benitez is the best coach I have had. I don't know if I'd have joined Napoli without him being there.

— Pepe Reina

For some reason I have always felt at home here at Inter and this is why I have never thought of leaving.

— Javier Zanetti

I think he [Sir Alex Ferguson] may have even surpassed the achievements of Matt Busby for Manchester United.

— Kenny Dalglish