Playing football Quotes · Page 7

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

Every year, you have to have the feeling to achieve the Champions League. Otherwise, we should stop playing football.

— Mousa Dembele

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

Playing football is what I love to do, so to be able to do that in the NFL, and then be able…

— Daniel Jones

You see, when I was young, I loved playing football. But where I grew up in southern Nigeria, it was kind of…

— Kelechi Iheanacho

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

— Jordan Rodgers

I've been playing football forever, and I've been making plays forever.

— Torrey Smith

It is impossible to be social distancing while playing football.

— Matt Doherty

I do enjoy the Scottish way of playing football.

— Pilou Asbaek

I've grown up a lot, and I have such great memories of playing football.

— John Matuszak

I play because I love the game. I love the process, I love the work, I love playing football.

— Mohamed Sanu

I've wanted to do medicine actually before I started playing football.

— Myron Rolle

I'm just a lad who likes playing football. I'm not bothered about anything else.

— Jordan Pickford

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.

— Michael East

Leaving a legacy beyond just playing football has become extremely important to me.

— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning.

— Wayne Rooney

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

— Mickey Rourke

I play football because I love the sport so much and for the sake of playing football.

— Stephan Lichtsteiner

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

— Dan Birdwell

I have never doubted that I would succeed from the moment I first began playing football.

— Demba Ba

I've got a lot of very fond memories playing football from the ages of four.

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain