Famous Quotes & Sayings

Channing Tatum

Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.

Channing Tatum

I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.

Bobby Charlton

Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.

Bobby Charlton

Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.

Bobby Charlton

I think now Messi is probably done more than most players. But he is in the same class as Alfredo de Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Pelé. When he finishes and he retires, he will automatically become one of them. A player that people will talk about forever, while the game of football is as good and as popular as it is. He is a sensational player.

Bobby Charlton

I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. In so many ways Scholes is my favourite.

Bobby Charlton

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

Barry Ferguson

We had already beaten them 4-0 and 7-0 earlier this season, so we knew we were in for a really tough game today.

Barry Levinson

When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part of the city. Football players didn't make close to the money they make today and most took jobs in the off-season. Some were mechanics, others worked at furniture stores, and you could find them drinking at a neighborhood watering hole...

Arjen Robben

Maybe Louis does have a golden willy.

Antonio Gates

High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.

Antonio Gates

If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.

We have a real tough homecoming game Friday night with a good football team.

Conan O'Brien

Analysts say Obama's new immigration plan will focus on deporting violent criminals. So, this could impact your fantasy football team.

Eamon de Valera

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

Dwight Yorke

The game is not over until it is.

Dwight Yorke

The Dell will continue to be a hard place to go and take points.

Dwyane Wade

I love football. I'll watch the NFL before I watch any NBA.

Courtney Love

Don't date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.

We shot ourselves in the foot too many times. Miami's a good physical team and they have great speed, but I thought we matched up decently. They just didn't make the mistakes.

We shot ourselves in the foot several times in the first half. But the kids responded to the talk at halftime. We started to come off the ball.

Bob Hayes

We shot ourselves in the foot several times.

Billy Donovan

We shot ourselves in the foot a lot of times in the second half. In the second half, the first (six) possessions, we turned it over four times.

We shoot ourselves in the foot a little bit. We've got to stop doing that eventually.

A. J. Cook

I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.

Andy Partridge

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.

Andy Partridge

And all the world is football shaped, It's just for me to kick in space, And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste, And I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime, Trying to take this all in, I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime, Trying to taste the difference, 'Tween the lemons and limes, The pain and the pleasure, And the church bells softly chime.

Alastair Campbell

I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someone in football, they can't turn up to training the next day. In politics they're still on the pitch. Gordon would still have been a big player.

Alastair Campbell

This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.

Albert Camus

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

Albert Camus

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Clinton Morrison

I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.

Clifton Fadiman

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.