Football Quotes · Page 1,015

You can't have two or three games where you let your level drop.

— Chris Smalling

For me, it's more important to win a team award, like a World Cup.

— Manuel Neuer

I also admire La Liga, but the Premier League is definitely the most intense.

— Hakim Ziyech

I have pride, and my pride won't allow me to accept losing by 30 points four games in a row.

— B. J. Armstrong

I go out to score goals, but I don't go out thinking about records.

— Gabriel Batistuta

I think my teammates make me look a lot better than I am.

— Tim Tebow

Whether you're winning or losing, you've constantly got to be changing.

— Lyoto Machida

Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.

— John Edgar Wideman

You can't compare my numbers to the other point guards. I'm a different kind of player - if you like it or…

— Jose Calderon

I think, at the end of the game, guys gotta trust themselves more. I think sometimes - not myself, but sometimes, guys…

— Metta World Peace

Especially in this league, you can have a tendency to look ahead, but really, it's about one taking one day at a…

— Sean McVay

I always played football with my friends on the streets of Eure, in Normandy, not far from Paris.

— Ousmane Dembele

Everyone looks at who is playing a World Cup. If a player you do not know makes a good impression at the…

— Christian Eriksen

I love the competition, going out there for 90 minutes, fighting your opponent. If you take this competition away from me, I…

— Lukas Podolski

Footballers have to help each other out. Everybody must give his best in pursuit of common goals - not individual ones. This…

— Lothar Matthaus

It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.

— Andy Rooney

“Being raised as a superstar must be really, really difficult for you. Always a commodity, never a human being, not a single…

— Nora Sakavic

As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were…

— Beth Ditto

We're going to step on the field knowing that every team we're going against is going to push their game to that…

— Crystl Bustos

It's one thing as a quarterback to sit there and warm up. And there's one thing to throw routes. And there's another…

— Alex Smith

Tony Pulis was the manager in my first pre-season out of school. It was extremely tough, but opened my eyes to a…

— Eddie Howe

It's hard to criticise Ronaldo. When we come back from an away game at 4 A.M., he is one of the players…

— Raphael Varane

If you are playing on the left of a four-man midfield, there are a lot more defensive duties to do, so you…

— Danny Welbeck

People don't understand the analogy of football and acting, but there's a great deal of it that's the same. You get dressed…

— Burt Reynolds

I believe now that I can win tournaments, and before I was just hoping.

— Kiki Bertens

Practice like it's competition and compete like it's another day on the practice court.

— Karch Kiraly

Call me whatever you want, but I'm eventually going to play like a power forward.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

Any day of the week you'd rather your team win rather than have personal achievements.

— Kasper Schmeichel

I think you should stay with your trainers, with your team, and support them.

— Diego Sanchez

It is nice to be known on 'Fifa 19' as the fastest player in the world.

— Adama Traore

When you play football in the Premier League, everybody is watching.

— Kelechi Iheanacho

You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.

— Ann Brashares

My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.

— Anonymous

You can play just as offensively with one striker as with two.

— Jupp Heynckes

We defended. We made them keep tough shots, and we executed offensively.

— LeBron James

Playing basketball is second nature to me; acting I found far more challenging.

— Stephon Marbury

I went to Tottenham 'cos I wanted to push myself and to improve, and I'm doing that.

— Darren Bent

I always want and expect more from players; they need challenging.

— Phil Neville

You dream as a player of having fans chanting your name.

— John McGinn

I think it's important that we go through everything together as a team.

— Dan Quinn