Quotes on Football

But my biggest passion is football.

Author: Greg Akcelrod

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

Author: Burt Bacharach

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

Author: Samuel Barber

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.

Author: Franz Beckenbauer

With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.

Author: David Beckham

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

Author: Catherine Bell

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

Author: Bjork

Yes, in general, I think there is too much club football on TV.

Author: Sepp Blatter

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

Author: Sepp Blatter

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Author: Erma Bombeck

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

Author: Tom Brady

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Author: Jimmy Breslin

That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.

Author: Garth Brooks

It's football season; anything can happen.

Author: Troy Brown

I'm on the cover of the lingerie football swimsuit calendar this year.

Author: Trishelle Cannatella

Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

Author: Eric Cantona

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

Author: Eric Cantona

He played football too long without a helmet.

Author: Jerome Cavanagh

I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston.

Author: Kenny Dalglish

No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout.

Author: Hugh Dancy

I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football.

Author: Gregg Easterbrook

I'm happy with the Arena Football League right now. I'm happy in Denver.

Author: John Elway

Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine.

Author: Roy Evans

As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.

Author: Nick Ferguson

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

Author: Gerald Ford

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

Author: Fred Frith

When it's football season, I'm all football.

Author: Hayden Fry

I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.

Author: Steven Gerrard

I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.

Author: Steven Gerrard

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

Author: Frank Gifford

I have been keeping myself fit. I am going on holiday next week in the Mediterranean so that I can really unwind after the football season and have a rest.

Author: David Ginola

Football will always be my foremost passion.

Author: David Ginola

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

Author: Jimmy Greaves

Football is what keeps me going, what makes me prosper, and what will keep me straight.

Author: William Green

The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.

Author: Brian Griese

We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.

Author: Rachel Griffiths

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

Author: Julie Harris

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

Author: John Heisman

In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.

Author: Thierry Henry

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

Author: Nick Hornby

I know I can catch the football. That's the least of my worries.

Author: Kevin Johnson

Our football program is bigger than any one person.

Author: Craig Johnston

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

Author: Craig Johnston

Football kicks you in the teeth.

Author: Dave Jones

Football players win football games.

Author: Chuck Knox

That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that.

Author: Mike Krzyzewski

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

Author: Tom Landry

I don't watch that much football... I really like to play it.

Author: Jamal Lewis

Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

Author: Wellington Mara

I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic.

Author: Steve McManaman

But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football.

Author: Al Michaels

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.

Author: Art Modell

Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.

Author: Jay Mohr

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.

Author: Robert Mondavi

In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!

Author: Parminder Nagra

As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

Author: Hidetoshi Nakata

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

Author: Chuck Noll

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

Author: Merlin Olsen

I don't have to play football.

Author: Terrell Owens

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

Author: Sally Quinn

But I just want to be known for my football.

Author: Jamie Redknapp

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

Author: Jerry Rice

Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.

Author: Graham Roberts

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

Author: Knute Rockne

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

Author: Knute Rockne

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Author: Bill Shankly

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Author: Irwin Shaw

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

Author: Bobby Sherman

There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be.

Author: Peter Shilton

Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

Author: Don Shula

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

Author: Don Shula

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Author: Don Shula

We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.

Author: Bubba Smith

What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.

Author: Steve Spurrier

Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.

Author: Leigh Steinberg

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

Author: Michael Strahan

There are few secrets in football. So execute.

Author: Hank Stram

I was not a very good football player when I started out.

Author: Lynn Swann

It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.

Author: Barry Switzer

I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.

Author: Paul Tagliabue

Football is not part of that lifestyle anymore.

Author: Lawrence Taylor

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

Author: Lawrence Taylor

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

Author: Daley Thompson

Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him.

Author: John Turturro

These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros.

Author: Troy Vincent

If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.

Author: Rob Walton

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

Author: Esther Williams

Nine in the box... that's a football term.

Author: Ricky Williams

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

Author: Ricky Williams

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

Author: Tom Wopat