Football Quotes · Page 1,431

I'm sure coach Frank Rijkaard will want the Dutch to go on and score a fourth now - although obviously they'll have…

— Angus Loughran

I'm not going to condone cursing but it is a part of all sport. You see it watching football, players cursing all…

— Shane Lowry

I'm just very passionate to win games for my country - and sometimes when things don't go my way, I'll get a…

— Stuart Broad

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football…

— Roman Abramovich

My mission is to kill; whether it's the Heat, whether it's the Lakers. Hopefully both. That's my mission, and that's what I'm…

— Jason Terry

I didn't always want to be a goalkeeper, but I didn't have much of a future further up the pitch.

— Edouard Mendy

Spain have got a big influence from Real Madrid and Barcelona, and when you watch Spain play, it's almost like watching Barcelona…

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top.…

— Arsene Wenger

Some of the greatest athletes in the world play this game. Sometimes, you make plays, sometimes, they make plays. That's what happens.

— Darrelle Revis

I got three years invested in Brett Hundley, two years invested in Joe Callahan. The quarterback room is exactly where it needs…

— Mike McCarthy

That's kind of the job in a sense... you need to be able to protect the football and be aggressive and aggressively…

— Daniel Jones

When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

— Brian Tracy

The biggest meaning and the most important thing is not to give opportunities to give the opponent an idea about how we…

— Tite

Tirelo Answer Phokane is the most motivational man in history. And he is the best man of all times.

— Tirelo Answer Phokane

In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Having a clear-cut plan, understanding what your game is and playing to your strength is what needs to be done.

— Mayank Agarwal

Messi is a god, as a person and even more as a player. I hope that he wins the World Cup with…

— Samuel Eto'o

When you become an athlete, you live in this bubble. You're in the world, but you're not in the world.

— Herm Edwards

Football and school don't go together. They just don't. Trying to do both is like trying to do two full-time jobs.

— Josh Rosen

Listen to me, even when you lose, it's OK to lose, but you can never get comfortable with it. You can never…

— Eric Thomas

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on…

— Xi Jinping

I am not that far apart from Jurgen Klopp in terms of our ideas about a style of football. That's no secret.

— Ralf Rangnick

There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was…

— Paul Weller

When I'm fit I know I'll give my best in each training session to give myself a chance of playing.

— Diogo Jota

“David Stern might be the smartest executive in the history of professional sports. His obsession with the Vagrant Kings is one of…

— R.E. Graswich

When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you…

— Johnny Weir

I've been an athlete my whole life. I've played every sport, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball.

— Nia Jax

“To marry was to take a hand in a dangerous game where the stakes are the highest - a fuller life or…

— Robertson Davies

I think when you look around it's: How can you build a team in which you have more than one star? That…

— Tom Thibodeau

I'm just trying to work on my game and get better. That's all I can do. Keep working hard, keep trying.

— Greg Oden

Everyone knows me by now. I love football. I am quite principled in that perspective. It is always difficult to find the…

— Robin Van Persie

Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea, but I didn't think of him as an elite international footballer. And I…

— Alex Ferguson

I'm not saying I've become institutionalised at Manchester United but my qualities have been at Manchester United.

— Mike Phelan

Everyone playing in the NBA likes to have pressure. If you didn't like pressure, you wouldn't be playing.

— Monty Williams

I want to be part of a team that wants to win. Guys that are trusting each other, guys that don't mind…

— Stephen Jackson

I really enjoy helping younger guys out, because this league is about playing it forward a little bit.

— Ryan Fitzpatrick

When I was a player, I wanted to win the Ballon d'Or, but I knew my characteristics; I knew that it was…

— Antonio Conte

I'm more of a player that listens and focuses on myself in the dressing room; I don't talk much before the matches.

— Gonzalo Higuain

In the single group format, where each team plays against the other, it gives a chance to the established outfits to make…

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

I started with nothing and reached the level I'm at today. All I had was football and God's help.

— Samuel Eto'o