Football Quotes · Page 731

Freshman want to play. Sophomores want to start. Juniors want to score. Seniors want to win

— John Beilein

You always try to take the positives and negatives out of the game.

— Simon Mignolet

When LeBron came into the league, I was 9 years old. So I grew up watching him play.

— Giannis Antetokounmpo

If you have everything prepared, the rest will take care of itself.

— Marv Levy

I'm just playing my football, and I will just see what the future holds for me.

— Wilfried Zaha

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment.

— Chris Evert

It's very important to me, who I play with and the same about picking a crew of people.

— KT Tunstall

Sometimes you change just to do something different, to improve the performance, lift the team.

— Gennaro Gattuso

A coach can only drive you as far as you are willing to be driven. The great ones are always up for…

— T Jay Taylor

In poker, position is power. When you've got position, play more hands and apply more pressure before the flop.

— Daniel Negreanu

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

— Gary Neville

I think it's great just to be around great quarterbacks who have played in this league for a long time because everybody…

— Davis Webb

For me, Arsenal is a football training centre. You watch the match, you enjoy it, but are you going to win a…

— Patrice Evra

Dont get me wrong, most of the guys out there loved playing football, I loved playing it. But football is not the…

— Terry Crews

Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else.

— Adriano Galliani

I need to keep improving tactically, defensively and offensively for the last pass, the last shot.

— N'Golo Kante

When I arrive at our training ground at Borussia Dortmund, everybody could hear just that a few seconds before I can actually…

— Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Nobody should imagine that they could go to England and change the way that football is played there. Just as nobody should…

— Massimiliano Allegri

Biggest influence is my parents. It's funny but my mom was the first one that allowed me to play tackle football. My…

— Marcus Mariota

I started playing basketball when I was about three years old. After that, everything else just came naturally. I had older cousins…

— Brandon Jennings

When you're with a team and you're comfortable there, everything seems O.K. You play a lot of minutes. You make the playoffs.…

— Jose Calderon

For clubs, free movement plays a big role in transfers and players' contracts. Players from the E.U. can sign for U.K. clubs…

— Karren Brady

I went to Holland and had a good season where I learned a lot about a different type of football. And then…

— Mason Mount

I don't play the game, because I'm good at it. I play it because, I like it.

— Josh Metiva

I put a lot into my body on and off the field that really gets me ready for the next day.

— A. J. Green

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

— Anonymous

Lionel Messi is not human. He is from another galaxy.

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

There are two sorts of losers - the good loser, and the one who can't act.

— Laurence J. Peter

When you come up too fast you dont get the chance for it to last.

— $Teady

I'm proud, privileged, and overwhelmed by how many times I've played for England.

— Ashley Cole

Not having drops and not taking plays off, if I do that it will make everyone around me better.

— Demaryius Thomas

I'm a huge fan of basketball. Any time you get a chance to watch basketball, I do it.

— Draymond Green

I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.

— Penn Jillette

I want to score, it's in my nature, I am a striker.

— Timo Werner

I've always been a player and a person who wanted to be the best at whatever he did.

— Eli Manning

Now it's up to me to prove that I can play for Barcelona and help the team to stay at the top.

— Thiago Alcantara

I like to coach. I like to try and help guys out.

— Matt Hughes

Both offensively and defensively, the presence that I have is pretty profound.

— Mohamed Bamba

I'm tough on the players. I think you need to be tough on them so they can be disciplined.

— Brian Flores