Football Quotes · Page 457

If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.

— Antonio Gates

In football you should never take anything for granted.

— Leonardo Bonucci

Racism is real; it exists here and now. You can find it on the streets, in your office, and in football stadiums.

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

I don't play right wing now but I am up and down the right wing a lot at club football. I know…

— Matt Doherty

To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.

— Diego Maradona

For a 20-year-old kid to be taking on Liverpool Football Club over a contract. To the pit of my stomach that just…

— Jamie Carragher

Football is about trophies, no? About achieving objectives.

— Ander Herrera

I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win…

— Arsene Wenger

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would…

— Brett Favre

I would try to be a striker even though I wasn't and once I started growing up and seeing professional football was…

— Eric Bailly

There's only one place you want to be and that's Wembley, Old Trafford or Anfield.

— Mick Channon

Football has given me so much, I now want to do my bit to help provide young girls the access to coaching…

— Alex Greenwood

If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

— Gary Lineker

You cannot buy players and know, for sure, that they can deliver. You cannot know because football is a team sport.

— Louis van Gaal

I really don't focus on the competition at all. Like even on the football field it's me versus me.

— Marquise Goodwin

You have to win football matches, and if you don't, you allow people to criticise you.

— Mark Hughes

I admire Romario a lot, he was my idol together with Ronaldo, but I do not have anything to prove to anyone.…

— Hulk

For me, football is what I love to do most. It is also the thing I'm better doing than anything else.

— Juan Mata

I don't get wrapped up in catches and fantasy football. It's not the way I view the tight end position.

— Greg Olsen

When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong.

— Joe Paterno

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I…

— Terry Crews

I'm sad to leave Palace because they're a great club and gave me my chance in football, and I want to say…

— Victor Moses

Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored…

— Oliver Reed

Football is to unite, not separate.

— Sergio Ramos

I've always believed since I was a kid that God was gonna allow me to play professional football, to use it as…

— Reggie White