Football Quotes · Page 1,383

Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.

— Jason Kidd

I might not be producing that much with the ball in my hands, but my fakes, my jet sweeps, it's doing numbers,…

— Tavon Austin

Juventus offered me the opportunity to sign in 2017 and I turned it down. I just didn't feel the timing was right.

— Eniola Aluko

Everyone is more focused on presenting the best that the league has to offer, rather than the worst.

— Joe Dumars

You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.

— Jose Mourinho

There are certain bridges that are not worth crossing, no matter what others think. Loyalty and relationships are important.

— Tony Dungy

The kickoff is one of the single-most violent plays in football, to run at full speed for a head-on collision.

— Morten Andersen

The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during…

— Grant Hill

I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much…

— Paul Gascoigne

Joy is important in life, not just football. Joy is being serious and professional, too. Joy can be reaching your potential by…

— David Luiz

In order to be successful you need to have a good team with a good core, so my whole thing is that…

— Al Horford

The argument has never been whether Kaepernick is one of the top five quarterbacks in the NFL. He's not in the top…

— Joy Taylor

The importance of hard work was a message I learned from my parents, and that is something I worked to pass on…

— Bret Hart

When you're out there together on the pitch, you're fighting for each other. It's amazing, overwhelming and you either sink or swim…

— Jermaine Jenas

I think it's being able to do both, obviously being able to play your role in the team and those responsibilities but…

— Tobin Heath

One evening I will always remember: In November 2015, at a meal together, he told me that he had to leave the…

— Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.

— Jose Mourinho

Maldini was a key figure in world football. I have always had great admiration for him as a player and as a…

— Javier Zanetti

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can…

— Ronaldinho

Fading are the days in which a cohort of towering power stations ran the game (and captured all the profits).

— Caroline Lucas

If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.

— Bobby Bowden

You can have a bunch of individually good players, but it doesn't matter. You gotta learn to play like a team.

— Russ

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose".

— Karen Kingsbury

If I had been at any other club but United, then I think I would have gone to the manager and asked…

— Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

— Grantland Rice

Everybody has to play for their team and accept his role, even if you are in a defensive position sometimes. That is…

— Michael Ballack

One thing about bowl games for me is that big time programs might rank higher, but I love the regional match ups.…

— Kirk Herbstreit

When I moved to Hull and I was playing against players in the Premier League, maybe I pinched myself then.

— Andrew Robertson

Everyone around me, my family and my friends, always said that, 'You have to play for Miami Heat.'

— Avery Bradley

Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately,…

— Gary Lineker

The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park…

— Charles Comiskey

I've got a lot of respect for Norwich City as a football club, there's some really good people there.

— Paul Lambert

My football philosophy is to win as many games as possible. Brand of football? I believe in mixing a bit of everything.…

— Roberto Di Matteo

But for me as a player, I pride myself on understanding the game and having a really good soccer IQ.

— Stephanie Labbe

You name me a Super Bowl that had a pacifistic defense, and I'll give you my paycheck. I'm serious. There aren't any.

— Mike Daniels

Turning around and walking to the bench after you made a bad play because you already know a sub is coming in...

— Anonymous

I've always preferred a 4-3-3. It's a more fluid and dynamic system, and I think it plays to my strengths better.

— Christen Press

Of course every player wants to be at the World Cup. It's my dream to represent my country there and I'll work…

— Erling Haaland

It's one thing to get beaten by a side who are a lot better than you, it's quite another to know you've…

— James Haskell