Football Quotes:
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.
Eugene McCarthy
Don’t walk through life just playing football. Don’t walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life, that’s the ultimate vision, that’s the ultimate goal – bottom line.
Ray Lewis
Fifa has lost the trust of the people. We cannot allow the architects and controllers of world football to get away with dragging the beautiful game through the grime of corruption and bribery.
Sol Campbell
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
Hunter S. Thompson
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
Bjork
Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
Johan Cruyff
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
Gary Lineker
Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
Fernando Torres
Football is about joy. It’s about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.
Ronaldinho
Football is an art, like dancing is an art – but only when it’s well done does it become an art.
Arsene Wenger
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
Tom Landry
Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.
Robert Griffin III
Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.
Ronaldo
Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi
Football is unconditional love.
Tom Brady
Football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
Duffy Daugherty
Football’s not just about scoring goals – it’s about winning.
Alan Shearer
Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.
John Heisman
I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, ‘Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.
‘Pele
I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I’d have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.
Lionel Messi
I do everything right-handed – football, tennis, darts and golf – except for snooker.
Judd Trump
I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.
Neymar
I played football for a long time when I was a kid, and then I went to art college and turned my back on it. Because of that, my toes are mangled; they’ve been broken. They’re like hooves or talons. They’re disgusting. I’d never get them out.
Noel Fielding
I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That’s when I knew I had some athletic ability.
LeBron James
I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I’m more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.
Lionel Messi
I threw up before every single football game I played, and I did so up through my NFL career. It was good pressure. It was pressure to be good. It was pressure to be the best. It was pressure to want to win.
Jim Kelly
I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.
Ed O’Neill
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
Bear Bryant
If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
If you get into a fight, don’t take your helmet off. We’re looking for smart football players, not dumb ones.
Mike Leach