Football Quotes · Page 1,483

If you ask any footballer, if you haven't won a game all season you're not going to be confident.

— Lee Cattermole

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

— Robin Williams

“The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what…

— Terry Pratchett

I got to Germany without being scouted, and without any experience of playing for my country. But I was given the chance…

— Jay-Jay Okocha

If an opportunity shows up, or when I present myself at Lazio, I have to present myself very well.

— Felipe Anderson

When you have two-thirds of possession in any match you have got to turn that pressure into points.

— James Haskell

To me, the quarterback position is about getting your team out of bad things and into good ones.

— Chad Pennington

I think, first and foremost, Wayne Rooney is a class player. Wherever he is on the pitch, he can make an impact.

— Danny Welbeck

I've definitely been working on my routes and catching. I'm also letting the whole game slow down and come to me.

— Todd Gurley

Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in…

— Tinker Hatfield

You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

— Margaret Thatcher

In the heat of battle you might not be thinking clearly and that is when players have to take on the responsibility…

— James Anderson

It was always my dream to come to the Premier League because I love this league, and I love this country. It's…

— Xherdan Shaqiri

A player is not going to get minutes just to get minutes. You have to impact winning, you have to put the…

— Tom Thibodeau

Messi's start to 2015 has been unrivalled. His efficiency in front of goal and the amount of goals he has scored cannot…

— Gerardo Martino

I don’t want friends to die...or fade away. I don’t want battles where we have to lose in order to win.

— Yuna

The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave…

— Bob Paisley

The opportunity to get Tom Brady. Like, that's Tom Brady, bro. Like that's the greatest of all-time. He's franchise changer.

— Mike Evans

Soccer is the international language. If you bring a soccer ball with you to any other country, you can make friends instantly.

— Josh Blue

One of the main reasons I went to Stanford was to run in a pro-style offense and show I can run between…

— Christian McCaffrey

Things happen on football pitches. Once the game is finished, you don't need to talk afterwards. That's just how it is.

— Ashley Young

I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right…

— Kate Mara

Through Unicef, we, the people of FC Barcelona, the people of Barca, are very proud to donate our shirt to the children…

— Joan Laporta

The Players Association has on the table a demand which doesn't recognize the reality of our league's economics today. It's a very…

— Paul Tagliabue

Everyone thinks, "Oh, it'd be easy to just go scout a game." It's not. Because you end up watching the game and…

— Murray Craven

Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this…

— Pete Carroll

I had a very difficult time deciding to go on my mission. It was hard to set aside my basketball career.

— Shawn Bradley

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without…

— Graham Taylor

Glen Johnson is an England international in the making. Although he has already played for England .

— Tony Gale

Honestly, I don't know why we can't transfer the mentality we have in the Champions League to Serie A.

— Edin Dzeko

People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much…

— Daniel Cormier

I should stay consistent as a young guy. That makes a big difference being consistent every game. That increases the minutes and…

— Kevon Looney

I know my confidence comes from getting in the gym and shooting extra shots and getting as many up as I can.

— Jerami Grant

Only Bayern Munich really have some sort of a guarantee to win if they only catch a good day. All the others…

— Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the…

— Pete Newell

Ronaldo is the best. He's a truly spectacular, very complete player, with enormous power. Opponents fear him.

— Alfredo Di Stefano

I think it's important that we as athletes do whatever we can to help kids, primarily helping kids of color.

— Harrison Barnes

I feel like I play better when I'm calm. There is an inner peace I can tap into sometimes during my matches.

— Naomi Osaka

My goal one day is to be Brazil coach, but to get there I need to have a club career. I started…

— Roberto Carlos

If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you've got no chance to concentrate.

— Bobby Nichols