Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Pleat

I've enjoyed my time in the game, whether it be managing Luton in the top flight, taking Spurs to Wembley or, as director of football, pinpointing players such as Jermain Defoe, Paul Robinson and Robbie Keane with real sell-on value.

David Pleat

You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.

David Pleat

When you've got a mountain to climb you may as well throw everything into the kitchen sink.

David Pleat

There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game.

David Pleat

Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.

Corey Dillon

I don't take a day off. I don't slack. All I know is hard-nose football. There ain't no breaks or vacations for me.

Corey Dillon

I played with a left hamstring injury since playing college football at Washington University. I went to doctors all over the country to find out what was wrong, and none of them could figure out the problem in my hamstring. I went to Drs. Baker and they found a huge knot in my hamstring. They were able to release it and fix my hamstring problem.

Daley Thompson

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

Craig Bellamy

Everyone in football knows what John Terry's like off the field

Craig Bellamy

Arsenal are streets ahead of everyone in this league and Manchester United are up there with them.

Craig Brewer

Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.

Craig Brewer

I got a Walkman, I had the 'Footloose' soundtrack and I danced to it constantly.

David Letterman

I have nothing against the North Koreans but this Kim Jong Un has got a screw loose. A member of his cabinet, his security minister, nods off, falls sleep. We've all done it. Kim Jong Un takes the guy out and has him executed, just for just falling asleep. Oh, and he was also deflating footballs.

David Letterman

Congratulations to Ohio State, your new college football champions. Coach Urban Meyer may be the greatest football coach of all time. Don't confuse him with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. That's urban quagmire.

David Letterman

I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you're not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms.

David Gallagher

I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.

David Gill

The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.

David Gergen

Politics is like watching football. Yes, you can see it directly on your screen, but I think a lot of people want to have some understanding of what's happening, why the play is unfolding the way it is, and I think that's where it can help them, not to render judgments but to help people make their own judgments in a more informed way.

David Beckham

I haven't retired from international football - I still believe I have a part to play in the future of England.

Delia Smith

But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty

Delia Smith

Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.'

Deion Sanders

Whenever you have to come to my house and convince me to leave my home and play football, deep down in my heart I really don't want to play, but I really don't want to let you down.

Deion Sanders

Bill Belichick is the best professional football coach I think ever lived. I'm upset that I played for a plethora of teams and never got an opportunity to play for Bill Belichick.

Deion Sanders

I'm married to football, baseball is my girlfriend.

Chuck Noll

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

Chuck Noll

Never make a major decision based solely on money.

Chuck Noll

Watch the film, not the stopwatch.

Chuck Noll

Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

Chuck Pagano

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?

Alfred Hitchcock

Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

Alfred Hitchcock

There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game.

Alfred Hitchcock

There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

Amy Trask

Al Davis is a legend and his contribution and influence on the game of football, the National Football League, and the Oakland Raiders has been profound for decades. To view his contribution and influence on a season-by-season basis does not make sense: he has dominated the industry for a lifetime. I can't tell you how he may have impacted or guided other individuals during their careers but I can speak from personal experience. He inspires me to be better every day than I was the day before.