Football Quotes · Page 496

Derbies are always well fought and with lots of fouls and interruptions.

— Sergio Busquets

Hang out with good people, do good things, and always put the team first.

— Robert Kraft

Every year at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, PFF meets with nearly every team.

— Cris Collinsworth

An athlete needs to read situations before they happen.

— Dwyane Wade

When I throw the perfect ball, it's impossible to defend.

— Rory Delap

Ever since I was kid, I dreamed of playing for England.

— Nikita Parris

If you win as a unit, everybody gets credit for it.

— Tyronn Lue

By working hard at Hoffenheim, I made it into the Selecao.

— Roberto Firmino

The Fifa president must take responsibility for what happens in his own shop. It's up to him that everything is correct, reputable…

— Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

Maybe if I had signed for Chelsea I'd just have been sitting on the bench and what is the point in that?

— Dejan Lovren

In the past, you would have been classed as a sweeper if you were put in the middle of a three-man defence.

— Jamie Carragher

There is a goodness about Yao that is unique, that never left him through all the pain and injuries and disappointments that…

— Jeff Van Gundy

He'll never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to.

— Charles Barkley

Such great goalkeepers have played in England over the years - the likes of Gordon Banks, Peter Shilton, and Bert Trautmann.

— Peter Schmeichel

Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.

— Viswanathan Anand

I am always going to live with the same naturalness after winning four games in a row and after losing four.

— Javi Gracia

In my career I always tried to improve to become one of the great players, because I felt I had received a…

— Zico

You go into each game looking to win. We're not looking at wins or losses because it proves something as a team.…

— Zach LaVine

My oldest son played for the NFL, until he got hurt and opened a gym here in Mississippi. He trains young athletes…

— Mike Espy

“I don’t care how tough you are or how tough you think you are, if they want you you’re theirs. It’s usually…

— Charles Brandt

I intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my…

— Jose Mourinho

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether…

— Vince Lombardi

It's not the mistake that's important; it's how you recover from it. If you recover instantly, in that second, it's gone from…

— Peter Schmeichel

“Guardiola signed for Roma in the summer of 2002, motivated less by the opportunity to play for a bigger club than to…

— Guillem Balague

Football makes me happy, and I want to spend as much time I can playing or contributing to it.

— Lukas Podolski

There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.

— Dietrich Mateschitz

“Life is a game. Fools play, and the wise watch.”

— Chillowet

When I came to Bayern, I was a second-division player. For me it was a new world.

— Joshua Kimmich

I mean it's the next man up. It's the NFL. If you can play, you can play.

— Cordarrelle Patterson

If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you'll be the 10th loser.

— Les Brown

It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.

— Rogers Hornsby

I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

— Johnny Unitas

I want to be remembered as a guy who played the game of football right.

— Frank Gore

All of you know how Pep Guardiola is as a manager... he is the best coach in history.

— Thiago Alcantara

You can be a huge player, if you play alone, the team loses.

— Raphael Varane

Barcelona or Real Madrid, I think I would say yes to playing for these teams.

— Hulk

Bayern and their fans will always be the most beautiful and most emotional story of my career.

— Mario Mandzukic

I loved the expectation that every year we were going to the Super Bowl.

— Steve Young

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

— Anonymous

You must be fast. Bigs are fast, running all over the court. You must be ready for that.

— Nikola Jokic