Football Quotes · Page 674

When I started playing basketball, it's about winning championships and being a great player.

— Evan Fournier

I think the playbook in American football would be a very good idea for soccer.

— Julian Nagelsmann

You need the desire to demonstrate the way you can play, which team you are.

— Manuel Pellegrini

The reality in business and in 'Dragons' Den' is you win some, and you lose some.

— Theo Paphitis

I think the quarterback position is not one that's exempt from competition.

— Doug Pederson

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

— Tim Howard

You coach to coach. You don't coach to satisfy media, satisfy fans.

— Jill Ellis

I used to play sports, and I loved football, but I used to get scared before a match.

— Jack Savoretti

When you're a quarterback, and you're dropping back, I can't watch what the receivers are doing.

— Alex Smith

There's not a whole bunch of options in America for a black man. But sports gives you that opportunity... So where would…

— Cris Carter

The Georgia Dome was my home field, brother. There's no question about it. I played my first football game there as an…

— Bill Goldberg

Being compared to players, being linked to other teams - I don't really take any of it in, to be honest. If…

— Declan Rice

If you go in Spain, you have to play with another style. The English culture is the English culture. If you come…

— Claudio Ranieri

It is impossible for forward play to be quite as safe as back play, because there must be a moment when the…

— Ranjitsinhji

Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you…

— Criss Jami

Football is like a rollercoaster and if you keep dwelling on what's happened in the past you're never going to move.

— Shaun Wright-Phillips

In England, everyone is really physically strong. They can play three games, and then they are ready to play the fourth. If…

— Ivan Rakitic

Football has to work really hard to put a smile on peoples face and not to be so focused on the question…

— Gordon Taylor

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching…

— Arthur Blank

Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino.…

— Patrick Ewing

When my business partner Rob Smethurst rang me up and said he wanted to rebuild the club as Macclesfield FC, and to…

— Robbie Savage

It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have…

— Nick Hornby

That's what I think most players want to be remembered as, being a good competitor. Not being a guy who makes excuses.…

— Vernon Law

The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive,…

— Dan Quinn

I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.

— Lisa Leslie

I thought I was going to be finishing at Newcastle.

— Andy Carroll

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

— Rick Pitino

Karl Malone used a lot of veteran stuff that I thought was cool.

— Tim Duncan

I love playing football, and that's all I'm going to do.

— Ashley Young

If you want change, you've got to stick with it.

— Terry Venables

I can't really see women in football, I don't like to say it but that's how it is.

— Gennaro Gattuso

You can't be a winner if you're a whiner...wiener.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

I'm just so excited to bring Alabama their first Heisman winner.

— Mark Ingram II

I was one of the first black players in Italian football. But I didn't suffer any racism.

— Marcel Desailly

I really like playing football, but I have four kids and there are so many fun things to do.

— Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

“Categories No. 1 and No. 2: Rolled-up trips and three cards to a low straight flush.”

— Ray Zee

You just want to go where you're wanted, and every team will have an opportunity.

— Patrick Corbin

Passing and defense are two things that help build your team, brings the best out of people.

— Tom Thibodeau

When I was at Chelsea I thought I played well even when Ashley Cole was there.

— Wayne Bridge

A girl prepares your fridge football season. The woman just wants you on her tight end.

— Nikhil Saluja