Football Quotes · Page 709

As long as I'm playing well, I'm happy, and happy playing anywhere.

— Bradley Wright-Phillips

Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.

— Eric Bolling

It would be cool to win a World Cup, and I think it would be good for my career as well.

— Lindsey Horan

Messi is a great player. Playing against him is not good - it is bad.

— Neymar

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

— Chris Bosh

I am really determined and very very competitive.

— Wayne Bridge

Ronaldo is the best of his generation and a huge example for young players.

— Matthijs de Ligt

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

— LeBron James

I worked hard at Everton. I learned many things, and I was lucky enough to achieve my goal of returning home.

— Gerard Deulofeu

What happens here, the daily agenda of Arsenal, is very different from what I experienced in Monchengladbach.

— Granit Xhaka

Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

— Bill Bradley

The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.

— William Safire

When someone's playing you man-to-man coverage, they're basically saying that guy's better than you. So that's why a lot of receivers feed…

— Amari Cooper

My first sport was volleyball, and then somebody told me about cross-country. They said it was outdoors, coed, and everybody got to…

— Daryn Kagan

When I was young, I didn't watch basketball, but I watched 'Space Jam' with Michael Jordan so he was my favorite player.

— Rudy Gobert

In the Premier League every team is very good. That's why it's very difficult to reach that level.

— Oscar

Jeff Bzdelik is one of the smartest, most knowledgeable, hardest working coaches I have ever worked with. His teams in the NBA…

— Stan Van Gundy

During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to…

— Michel Patini

Were all brought up to believe that the best players show up in the biggest games, and what bigger game than the…

— Justin Tuck

I understand it's our job to win and to entertain. I understand that. But in terms of the commentary or the negativity,…

— Mike Tomlin

I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely…

— Eric Dickerson

I'm the best player in the draft. I truly feel that way. But I feel like you can ask anybody in the…

— D'Angelo Russell

Basically, I played football to share with others, to excel together, to achieve a goal. After, we all have our ego, our…

— Raphael Varane

It's different as a coach because you feel responsible for a lot of people. Even though you don't take a shot, you…

— Steve Kerr

At Euro 2004 - my first as a player - Greece won the title. A team nobody thought could win it.

— Philipp Lahm

I'm a striker. That's what I enjoy doing. And any chance to display that, I'm happy.

— Robert Whittaker

You can't go into a game lax and acting like somebody isn't trying to beat you.

— Jamal Murray

Crash, out of control, lose yourself, go and even the score.

— 30 Seconds To Mars

At the end of the day, I want to have an opportunity to play quarterback in the NFL.

— Taysom Hill

Ferran Torres has shown a lot of desire to come to Barca and I want to thank him.

— Joan Laporta

“When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact.”

— Abraham Verghese

I'm living my dream, getting to play in the NBA, getting to play basketball.

— Paul George

The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.

— Alan Ball

I'm aware that by going to MLS, it complicates my access to the France team.

— Blaise Matuidi

“The most satisfying win over your enemies is to win them in life.”

— John Yang aka Private83

I've always been a guy that's just prided myself on making plays.

— Lou Williams

In a tournament like the World Cup, you have got to be on top of your game every game.

— Ravi Shastri

Winning the Carling Cup would be the ultimate for me.

— Jay-Jay Okocha

I love football and basketball but fighting is the original, most primitive to our nature.

— Forrest Griffin

It makes it harder to win when we're turning the ball over, and I can't afford to do that.

— Daniel Jones