Football Quotes · Page 683

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

— Tom Wilson

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

— Al Oerter

If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.

— Tanya Tucker

What Barcelona almost always do is play a good game, but we don't always win.

— Gerardo Martino

Honestly, it's hard to play with a lot of intensity night after night.

— Kim Shattuck

I think the failure in the NFL has humbled me in the fact that I don't think I'm the best.

— Ryan Leaf

My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.

— Bowden Wyatt

Whenever you go up 2-0, you understand that teams are going to be desperate.

— Sue Bird

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

— Alan Hansen

You don't have to just work on your game, you have to work on yourself. This is the last step to becoming…

— Gianfranco Zola

Stoke City gave me the opportunity to play in the most competitive league in the world, and I have only words of…

— Bojan Krkic

I never want to be a father figure to my quarterbacks. I've got my own kids. I want to be the cool…

— Bruce Arians

We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.

— Gerard Houllier

You can't talk about the NFL without the Raiders, the three Super Bowl championships, what Al Davis meant to the league.

— Charles Woodson

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives…

— Denis Waitley

I have to reserve special thanks to the United fans - whose support has been a very special part of my time…

— Bastian Schweinsteiger

When I'm out and about or walking my dogs, United fans are coming up to me saying, 'We'd rather City win the…

— Kyle Walker

The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good…

— Eric Cantona

“This presents a simple, yet powerful  graphic representation of the client's life, and enables the coach to identify and call attention to…

— Shmaya David

I always thought I'd be playing; now I watch Manchester United every weekend on Sky Sports and they're using 'Found What I've…

— Thomas Grennan

I'll stutter step, then drop the shoulder, a little pump, a little Kobe Game 7 fade-away, and the hooks coming too. And…

— P. K. Subban

“At the end of his spell in Argentina he felt that he was better prepared than ever before; not totally, because Pep…

— Guillem Balague

It was a big change for me not to go into the weight room and train like a football player - I'd…

— Mark Schlereth

I like to follow the training session with my voice. To call at them and explain my reasons and my ideas of…

— Antonio Conte

A result doesn't determine the planning on the sporting side.

— Sergio Busquets

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.

— Tom Brady

I love the sport, it brings a lot of obstacles that are hard to overcome.

— Caeleb Dressel

One thing's for sure - Africa needs to have its best teams at the World Cup.

— Marcel Desailly

It's my job to do the best I can to stay in the team and help as much as possible.

— Ben White

It is really important to have a great team around you.

— Jack Draper

There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth.

— Ian Holloway

Once one goal is checked off, you have to up the ante just to keep yourself sane.

— Alison Sudol

I want to win, I'm going to do everything to be successful.

— Jonas Valanciunas

Whenever I've shot the ball well, the whole team has done better.

— De'Aaron Fox

My ambition is to win some trophies. That's why I am playing football.

— Olivier Giroud

I try to learn from every experience, good or bad.

— Tim Tebow

I am a person who always puts the team in front and I do it publicly.

— Andre Villas-Boas

I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.

— Woody Hayes

Originally, when I started it, women's football wasn't as secure as it is now.

— Leah Williamson

“Everyone has to deal with the hand that they are dealt with in the poker game called Life.”

— Hannah Andronic