Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Lampard

I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio.

Frank Lampard

I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.

Orhan Pamuk

Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

Orhan Pamuk

Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.

Orhan Pamuk

Turkish football serves the cause of nationalism, but not of the nation.

Orhan Pamuk

Football can teach us that although a team's individual players may be weak, it can still be successful if it uses common sense. Or that we should not attack anyone physically when we suffer a depressing defeat.

Orhan Pamuk

My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Oliver Stone

Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they're black or white, much as soldiers do.

O. J. Simpson

NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

O. J. Simpson

My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.

Henrik Larsson

Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player in the Premier League and in the whole of Europe. The things I have seen him do since I have been in Manchester have been incredible, amazing. It is just like a total show in training and even in the matches. This kid will one day arrive at the very top in the world of football - if he isn't there already - because he makes the most difficult plays look easy.

Herschel Walker

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

Herschel Walker

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

Herschel Walker

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

Herschel Walker

Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.

Hayden Fry

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

Hayden Fry

When it's football season, I'm all football.

Hidetoshi Nakata

I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

John Krasinski

My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.

Johannes Brahms

To follow in Beethoven's footsteps transcends one's strength.

Football is for the fans. It can be the greatest game in the world but if there are no people to watch it, it becomes nothing. The fans are the lifeblood of the game.

Football without fans is nothing.

No Scot ever made a bigger impact on a club than Bill Shankly. Others may claim an equal share of trophies and Matt Busby comes to mind with his wonderful record crowned by the European Cup, but not even Matt would claim the kinship with the fans that Bill enjoyed. He was what football was all about. I can't praise him higher than that.

Joe Gibbs

It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith)

Joe Gibbs

God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.

Joe Gibbs

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this earth. It's not going be, "It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl." But, really and truly what you're going to leave this earth is the influence on others.

Joan Jett

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

Jimmy Breslin

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

Jimmy Breslin

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Jimmie Johnson

I really enjoy the football season.

Jimmie Johnson

A losing football team looks at excuses. A championship football team looks at solutions.

Jim McMahon

The people don't take baths and they don't speak English. No golf courses, no room service. Who needs it?