Playing football Quotes · Page 6

Sacks are an important stat. But there's a lot more to playing football.

— Nick Bosa

When I decide I can't play the way I've always played, I'll stop playing football, period.

— Ryan Clark

I never saw myself as a prospect, it was always about playing as much football as I can.

— Mason Mount

Keeping fit is really important as playing football is all I've ever wanted to do.

— David Beckham

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

— Burt Bacharach

You know, playing football for me is just like riding a bike.

— Terrell Suggs

Playing football is important, but the fight against racism is very important.

— Vinicius Junior

Quite a lot of things are more important than playing football and what we do, we are blessed.

— Virgil van Dijk

When I stopped playing football, I stopped my relationship with my agent. I always had one agent.

— Mauricio Pochettino

I'm not out fighting fires, I'm not out on the battlefield, I'm playing football and we really are blessed.

— Matthew Slater

Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

— Kawhi Leonard

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just…

— Pele

I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good…

— Taylor Kinney

I think that most players enjoy playing football, but, like in everything, there are good moments and bad moments.

— Mousa Dembele

When I was growing up, I always liked playing football, and my mum always took me to football games. I owe her…

— Michael Essien

I got a lot of the greatest values in life from playing sports, from playing football - teamwork, sportsmanship, my work ethic,…

— Jon Gruden

Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, which they spent on our education…

— Ryan Coogler

I don't know, I feel like I did a lot of stuff that I never would've thought I would've ever did. And…

— Todd Gurley

I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our…

— Florence Griffith Joyner

I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the…

— Frank Lampard

We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at…

— Matteo Manassero

I never worry about injury. When you go out there, you're playing football. And when you start worrying about those things, that's…

— Mitchell Trubisky

Some people would see a person like me who plays football and be star-struck. From my perspective, I'm just a person, but…

— Sony Michel

Ever since I started playing football, just trying to make a play.

— Kyler Murray

There is no right or wrong way of playing football.

— John Barnes

I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football.

— John Barnes

A player who isn't playing football isn't ready for the international team.

— Oliver Burke

Playing football is one thing, but coaching is another.

— Gianfranco Zola

I make more money in the off-season than I do playing football.

— George Blanda

Obviously, I love playing football and I have kept fit.

— Gianluca Vialli

As much fun as you can have playing football, if you're not winning, it's not that much fun.

— Jordy Nelson

You can't forget it is a business and not just playing football for a hobby.

— Thomas Muller

Whatever is going on off the pitch, players relish playing football.

— Gary Cahill

I don't make a big deal out of playing football at UGA to people who have interviewed me.

— Omari Hardwick

I never thought in a million years I'd be playing football against a rockstar.

— Darren Bent

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

— Wayne Rooney

I could've kept playing, but football didn't define me.

— Jordan Rodgers

It is impossible to be social distancing while playing football.

— Matt Doherty

I do enjoy the Scottish way of playing football.

— Pilou Asbaek