Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Atkinson

That's not the type of header you want to see your defender make, with his hand.

Ron Atkinson

He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces

Ron Atkinson

Now Manchester United are 2-1 down on aggregate, they are in a better position than when they started the game at 1-1.

Ron Atkinson

You can see the ball go past them, or the man, but you'll never see both man and ball go past at the same time. So if the ball goes past, the man won't, or if the man goes past, they'll take the ball.

Ron Atkinson

They've picked their heads up off the ground, and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders.

Tyler Hoechlin

The one I can't imagine anyone taking seriously, but was one of my favorites, was the mesh football jersey top, paired with a really short pair of athletic shorts.

Troy Vincent

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.

Troy Vincent

We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.

Troy Polamalu

I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.

Troy Polamalu

I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.

Troy Polamalu

I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.

Troy Polamalu

In football, you're taught to react by being aggressive, taught to react with violence. If you can't separate that on the field and off the field, you're going to be in a lot of trouble in your life.

Troy Polamalu

Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.

Troy Polamalu

As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.

Troy Polamalu

Football doesn’t define me. It’s what I do [and] how I carry out my faith.

Troy Polamalu

When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.

Troy Polamalu

I love the atmosphere football brings; I love being around my teammates; I love the struggle in football. I love the fact that it is a part of my life. I don't look at it as any more important or less important as any other part of my life.

Travie McCoy

When I was playing junior football when I was a kid, we were the Geneva Giants, so it was kind of embedded in me to be a Giants fan.

Rex Ryan

We're going to start with the injury report, obviously. Manning, Clark, Addai, Reggie Wayne, Freeney, Mathis, Brackett - all those guys will not play. Oh, hold up. That was my wish list for Santa Claus.

Rick Warren

On Thanksgiving we do just everything except give thanks. We eat, we watch football, we have a good time with family. Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.

Rick Riordan

We heard the army before we saw it. The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas.

Trevor Brooking

Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different.

Trevor Brooking

That could have been his second yellow card - if he'd already got his first one of course

Trevor Brooking

I come from a generation where I couldn't even contemplate such a thing. I find it amazing. You can become a multi-millionaire as a club player without playing international football. But international football is about individual pride and wanting to perform at the highest level. If I got picked at 41, I would have played, even if I thought I would make a fool of myself. I just wanted to play for my country.

Trevor Brooking

That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice.

Trent Reznor

I hated school . . . I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.

Steve Young

First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.

Steve Young

The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.

Steve Young

My goal--and this is kind of my own little secret--but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and, and, and be a missionary around the world. Places where Steve Young--not that it's big really that many places--but places where they have no idea about football.

Vince Flynn

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

Vince Flynn

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

Vince Lombardi

Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting

Vince Lombardi

Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.