Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen. — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it. — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't want to collect any paychecks as a cheerleader on the sideline. — John Matuszak Copy Share Image
“It’s one of the game’s slogans: 'there are no status quos in Apocalypse World.” — D. Vincent Baker Copy Share Image
Madrid is the biggest club in the world and the pressure there is too. — Martin Odegaard Copy Share Image
He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve. — Clive Tyldesley Copy Share Image
LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship. — Dan Gilbert Copy Share Image
I first learnt to play football as a striker and it was only when I joined City that I learnt how to… — Shaun Wright-Phillips Copy Share Image
I try to do everything on defense first and try to help the team get the energy going and win games. — Dennis Schroder Copy Share Image
I've pretty much adjusted to how teams play. Like when I draw two defenders, I want to make the best play possible. — Kemba Walker Copy Share Image
Boredom does get you into trouble and we footballers have a lot of time on our hands, and sometimes we fill up… — Adebayo Akinfenwa Copy Share Image
Ancelotti has managed a lot of big clubs, and I think he would do well at Madrid because Juventus, Milan, Chelsea, and… — Edgar Davids Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am questioned why I play better for the national squad than at Manchester City. I am the same at both… — Robinho Copy Share Image
Who is the winner? Not he who wins but he who has established his cheerful oneness with the result, which is an… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
First of all, I would love to see people remember me as a good passer, not as a good flopper. But flopping… — Vlade Divac Copy Share Image
Just like the athlete who has mapped out a plan to become one of the best athletes in the world by putting… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
Right now, we're not a team. I think we're genuinely happy for each other when we're out there on the court. We've… — Ray Allen Copy Share Image
It's something that as you go on in your career you make little changes and little adjustments and that's part of the… — David Lee Copy Share Image
If I could, I'd change the way I came up through the football ranks. I'd love to have had an academy life… — Lucy Bronze Copy Share Image
People always say to me, 'It must be so much pressure and so difficult playing out there in front of 60,000 people.'… — Troy Deeney Copy Share Image
Hampshire were the club who gave me my first chance, so I owe them a lot. — Imran Tahir Copy Share Image
My mind was always set on joining Manchester United. How can you not go to United? — Dimitar Berbatov Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I will watch a lot of professional football once I've retired. — Neil Warnock Copy Share Image
Even when I was on the football pitch as a teenager, I wanted to be the teacher. — Massimiliano Allegri Copy Share Image
I been doing a lot of reading, watching a lot of basketball, watching a lot of shows. — Rodney Hood Copy Share Image
It's about being steady and taking the rough with the smooth, but that's life as a goalkeeper. — Robert Green Copy Share Image
It's the referee's job. It's not for me to have to say I should ease up. — Chris Eubank, Jr Copy Share Image
