Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Pleat

He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.

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.

Bruce Matthews

We have been able to rush the football. Each week we play, we hope to show improvement. The last two weeks, we have shown improvement.

Jon Gruden

We have got to win this game. It's a big game for us. The Saints have given us trouble, at least since I've been here (0-3 at Raymond James Stadium). This is a big football game for us.

Troy Vincent

When one of the NFL's superstars goes down, it can devastate your football team.

Michael Vick

When one guy goes down, we can't get the job done? That's why we've got backups, ... We're a team. One man can't win a football game by himself. I can't win a game by myself.

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.

Franz Beckenbauer

We can all be very proud. It's a quantum leap forward. We're playing in a true football stadium at last.

We are not the same football team we were a year ago,

We found a way to win. Now we have to find a way to move the football next week.

We have a ton of respect for Steubenville Central. They play the game of football as hard as they can and you know they are going to scrap for 48 minutes.

Abbas Kiarostami

This kind of directing, I think, is very similar to being a football coach. You prepare your players and place them in the right places, but once the game is on, there's nothing much you can do - you can smoke a cigarette or get nervous, but you can't do much.

Abbas Kiarostami

I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.

Adrian Peterson

It's not like I had to throw the football and deal with that as well. It was more disheartening, to be honest with you, just to kind of see how the National Football League really is.

Adrian Peterson

I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.

Adrian Peterson

My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.

Dan Dierdorf

I think people tune in to watch a football game because they want to watch a football game. If they wanted to watch a stand-up comedy show on HBO, that's where they'd go